Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-01-29

ferent times such number ~ Ire pcopis 70 -
butchered :" as no inan eau recNcs t,prril
liens of the most ,rtuOus Of tAeit people IL
(, one year, the memorable yeag " witch the
| edict of NautZ WAS repeated. Such has been
| The ever 10 be depOred consequence N Eng.
| land and Europe OF Withholding the right oi
| suffrage from the househoiders, and combining
| IL to iandholders.
The only serious objection which the rnon-
arch and the great freeholders of that country
nave 10 extend the right of suffrage TO the
people IN general, IS. that taxes would be i'm
posed with more reluctance, and that in IA 81
Tue executive could not wage war without the
appreciation of a majority OF the nation.
AtpreseEt few govern the nation but the
people hope. and :he court dread. that ex-
tending the right of suffrage To every house
holder would enable the majorityto carry ua-
tiona measures.
Whitbread, Fox, Burdett, Wilkes, Cochrame,
Burke before he WAS bought bv the governs.
ment and appointed from a rotten kUrouc ~,
BroughaIn, &c. &c. are the Kind of men wic h
the householders ever elect Men that both
the great landholders and the English court
have always feared as friends to national gov
eminent, and often endeavored to crush.
he representatives of great landholders in
England have always considered the American
nation a multitude of rebels, that ought To be
destroyed by merceDary troops, savages, &c.-
but the representatives of the houseke epers
have generally denied this right, aud opposed
putting VI IL
In fact, the landholders in England have
always Dreaded and opposed the increase of
liberty and equal rights in the world but the
honseholders, II we MAY Judge from their rep
resentatives, have hailed them with approba-
ten.
Those in England who wish every household.
er in the nation to enjoy the right of suffrage
do not mediate the destruction of the royal
family, or of the laws of restrictive Justice and
OF order but they merely wish bishops, no.
blemen, and their sons, host of sinecures and
pensioners, that never served king or country
foreigners, who are related to the royal family
&c. In fact, all those idle and worthless peo-
pie who draw from the nation fifty thousand
twenty thousand, ten Thousand pounds year,
each, &c. &c. TO have their pensions reduced
according 10 circumstances, one half two
thirds, and some of them entirely discontinued
Snch are the views in general of those in Eng
land, who wish the right of suffrage to be- en-
tended to every householder but the free
holders partaking so largely of the 1oaves and
hshes, oppose the extending of equal rights ;
for they know that whenever these obtain,
England would have less wars and fewer pen
sioners. In fact, the English monarch is like a
large beast, that dcvours re fairness of the
whole land and the landholders with their
families, and esf ecially children, are like thou
sands OF teaches that slick to his body, and by
gradually sucking his blood, exhaust his sys-
TEN, while fifteen out of twenty of the nation
are merely working bees, among which the
beast daily gambols, and at every motion of
HIS rect, udupleS ana cruSheS thousands 10
death.
The price of landholder's vote in Great
Britain, is post, civil, military or ecclesastic-
al, or pension for his sons, or for himself
The nation, however, are 10 pay the fiddler
though they are not admitted into the dauce
Aud il is now fully ascertaned that as long as
landholders can send members to Parliament
from the forsaken boroughs, aud the house.
holders in general, have not right to vote at
elections, there ever will be in parliament more
members DESTROYS of aggrandizing themselves
aud families, than of serving the nation =.
Where the right of suffrage is confined to
landholders, il is the interest and caprice of
these, who are but the fes0, that the overnment
ever CoDsults, while the interest and happi-
ness of the nation are discarded and sacri6
ced.
shall conclude with the known object O f
the association of the hereditary sovereipus of
Europe, called" Holy Alliance, supported bv
the Suffrage of the landholders of Great Bri
tain, and so zealOusly opposed BY The house
holders, expressed in the words of the rnmor-
tai Bentham
g In the modern holy league which in its
spirit is congenial TO that of the original
one, IT is Fundamental principle-rhat, in the
hands OF the ruling and subruiing fer. the near
er the condition of the subject many, a class
Which includes fourteen ont OF fifteen in a
nation, eau be brought 20 the condition of th e
beasts of the field, the better it will be for the
interests, eternal as well as temporal. of all
parties" A LA&DHOIDER