Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-05-25

ctSe OF the wisdom 0f the legislature of
the U. States TO apply an early and etli-
cient remedy, hope il will not be regarded
as AN undue interference, that they ven
tufe 10 submit TO the consideration OF
their fellow citizens througlIo the union
the following form of "a respectful APP
p!icaiion 10 the president, tor AN early
call of congress. Should the measure be
found necessary. il is ofliitle consequence
with whom il originates: should the con-
irary opinion prevail, the motive cannot
fali, with all good men, 10 apologize for
the suggestion.
To the President Of the II. States.
SIR-rhe subscribers with all due re-
spect, submit To your most serious consI-
Iteration, the following reasons on which
they venture Ia suggest the prUpriciy of
convening an extra session of congress.
Our agricultural productions. the gr-a,
staples OF our country, on which We re-
iied TO pay Tor our enorin nus i'm i,oriations,
and Which, even at their highest rates,
would have been Inadequate iur that par
pose, are either excluded from foreign
markets, or reduced in price from iwen-
ty-hve tn forty per cent without any pro-
liability OF a favorable change.
Our markets are deluged With merchan-
die from foreign nations, l-iloisau,is
OF our citizens, able and willing 10 work,
and capable OF furnishing similar articles,
arc unable 10 procure employment our
manufacturing establishments are gene
rally in languishing condition, and many
oil them, in which immense sums have
been invested, wholly abandoned, W hereby
their proprieiOrs, who placed reliance oil
The protection OF government, are ruined.
Our commerce Is almost equally pros.
traie, and The capital of the country, en-
gagged in that useful braueii, reduced
SINCE the war at least one third, proba.
bly, one half.
The balance Of trade, in consequence
oi excessive impOrtatious, has been, and
continues, most ruinously against us.
whereby. after having remilied an imc
mense amount OF our government and
bank stock III payment, which subjects
The nation TO heavy, permanent annual
iaN-wr have bren and are alarniingly
drained OF our circulating medium, In
consequence Of which our m0nied ins,i-
| tuilons are impoverished aud crippled in
Their operations agriculture, nanuiac-
lures, tradt and commerce paraliZed
! and all classes of our citizens more or less
injnriously affected III their pursuits.
Real estate has deprecated throughout
The union from fifteen to thirty five per
cent; and in many cases fifty or sixty.
i he subscribers are Impressed with Il
conviction. thai ior all these alarming
! evils there Is no adequate remedy but
! reduction OF the amount of our imports
within that OF our exports il heing un-
denlably true, That nations like indilidu-
ais, which buy more than they sell, or,
III other words, expend beyOId their III
come, must be reduced Ia bankruptcy.
10 depend on Ibis saluiary effect being
produced by the restoration of that spirit
OF economy which Is TO result from gc-
| neral distress, or from the forbearance Of
our merchants Ia. import, is TO allow
violent fever 10 rage in Tie body polite,
| and exhaust itself, or the national
strength, without the application Of any
remedy 10 arrest lis destructive career.
Even If our own merchants were 10
reduce their impoTtaiions within these
bounds which our means OF payment
would require, this would afford no Sc
curly as our markets would probably
continue 10 be, as they have been, mum
dated with gOot!s consigned by foreign
| ea..ai.ii:Ous situation INTO which OF. curu-
try is plunged.
A radical remedy 10 the evil, can ONLY
be applied by the legislature of the u.
States, in such a revision and regulation
OF the tariff, as shall reduce our in,uor-
taiions, and eiteclualiy protect national
industry.
In England, France, Germany, Russia
and Prussia, and most other countries i'm
Europe, national industry is adequately
protected by prohibitions and heavy du-
ties; whereas, While many of our auri-
cultural productions, and almost all our
manufactures are excluded from nearly
all The markets Of the world our MARKERS
are open 10 those Of all other nations I'm.
der duties by ITO means aitoIding sutiici-
ent protection: case probably without
example in The annals of mankind.
We therefore respectfully pray that
you will be pleased 10 convene congress
as early as circumstances may permit.
PHILADELPHIA, May l9.-The shin
Voltaire, Capt. Bowen, wIicIar.ived here
on Monday last, from Lisbon, brought
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
III specie, for her owner, STEPHEN Gil.
RAID, Esq.
We look with mucb anxiety for The of
fetal report OF The cruise of the ONTA-
RIO ship of war, which we learn by gen.
ilemcn recently from Washington is a
highly interesting document, and will If
published entire, silence the clamOurs of
tho privateer owners 10 the soutb.-I'he
distinguished rank which captain Biddle
bias deservedly acquired in the service of
his country, cOn,inces us that ilie lau-
rels which lie has already won, will me-
yer be furnished by any act nnaorihy
tie American name. We regret that z
set of men should exist in tins tOuniry,
who bring a disgrace upon the character
| OF American Citizens, by unlau iuI de.
precautions upon the property of Nations
with whom We are al peace we are also
| sorry to observe that the executio OF
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