Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-10-18


duty ON bread, but if you do buy bread, you shall
pay the duty; you aie how ever, LEFT perfectly free
IN your choice TO buy bread or not; would not This
pSoltered free choice be iosuIiin. mockery TO the
hungry MANI This obligation to obey the law, or
In other words, 20 buy the bread is enforced by the
strongest possible sanctions, the Indispensable
wants of nature. The unavoidable obligation 10
buy the duted article, gives the sellers advantage
in the sale, the purchaser, to the fuli extent oil
the duty, and in this advantage consists the immo-
Talty and injustice of the tariff law; and IN Tins,
consists the cheatery, covered under the
Z" Home Market''-It is wonderful TO contemplate
the extent OF the influence of nick names, uron
mankind II is wonderful TO see how great por-
ton of mankind is content and even delighted win
nick-nanes, when the things described by theni
would be repealed with disgust and indignation
The nick -name, Home Markell affords the
most instructive illustration OF the correctness oil
this observation. Whilst the term g Home Mar
ket' fascinales the of many unthinkinS Ameri-
can citizens, the term, g continental system,
would strike the same with insult and indiSna-
ton; yet the terms " Home Market and " con-
tinental SYSTEM mean precisely the same thing;
both are grounded upon the same despotic prinei-
pie, and both produce the same practical results
Tie British term, "restrictive SYSTEM" although
unfortunately, more familiar to the American ear,
and therefore, less alarming, Is, nevertheless
founded upon the same despo.c principle, produces
the same injurious effects; and, in substance means
the same thing In what did the odous French
90 continental SYSTEM consist! In precisely the
same thing, that the beloved American ." Home
Market" consists In refusing TO individuals the
right TO sell TO whom they please, and buy from
whom they please In restraining the French peo-
PIE from selling TO foreigners; and buying from 20
reigners. In short, in giving the French people a
Home Market" ard thus making the French ma
ton, positively Independent of foreign nations
All this done in France, in the U. S. for the
public good'-for the general welfare;' and
an like manner, although extremely oppressive to
the present generation, this public good-this gen
eral welfare was 10 overtake the French people in
some two, or three centuries TO come. WHO was
the author Of this French " continental ystem'--
This French (" Home Market? Napoleon Bo-
naparte, Emperor, Sovereign absolute of France.
The most splendid schemer oithis enlghtene ed age.
Where is now this splendid schemer? Where is
now the great Napoleon? Not long since, the ter
rcr of the word!!! Where all his spleadd,
magnificent schemes of universal empire, His
splendid schemes are given to the wind! The
splendid schemer lies gnobiy low in ST. Helena!!
Wherefore? How did all this happen? This
splendid schemeT was despot and tyrant--as all
splendid schemes What has this splendid
srEemer done TO hurl him down from his late high
eninence, TO his present low condition? He be-
came splendid schemer. He boldly undertook
Is 10 raise bis greatness upon his country's
ruin" He despoiled his country OF its most pre-
cious blood He despoed the people of their
most precious rights. He drew forth the youthful
blood OF France, and poured it forth in schemes OF
mad ambition. He usmped the sacred rights oil
private property. lie would not permit the French
people TO sell to whom they pleased, nor buy from
whom they pleased. He gave them q continent
tai system" He gave them 6 Home Market. -
He vainly thought to make France positively tn
dependent ofioreign nations. AL for the people.
own good ali Tor their own welfare, some centu-
ries to come. Was not his a cruel fate, to be laic
those wi he hadd Ona ,ch,
No. The splendid tyrant did all this for the in
Sulgence OF his own mad ambition. Stimulated by
bad impulses, he mstook his schemes and in thai
sad mistake he laid his country's ruin. And 20
that wanton sad mistake he well deserves his fate
=" Sic semper TyrdRnis'!!! II should be reco
iected, tina, the brave French people were neve
conquered by their foreign foes. They were con
quered by their splendid domestic tyrant. In III,
year 1913, when The allied army pursued the re
treating tyrant into France, thar army was place.
IN the hands OF the French people After the aliet
army had reached Montmaire, the whole of tina
army would not have made a breakfast for th,
whole OF the French people, If the tohole of tina
people had thought proper TO make meal OF TIN
soh0le OF that army. Out of thirty millions of TIN
brave French people, but sixty thousand could b
brought to join their scheming tyrant's standard
and these were soldiers, not citizens. With thes
sixty thousand troops, and the school-boys from th
polytechnic schools, Napoleon had discounted tn
whole OF the allied army. After the battle O
Mon,matre, the allied army, which entered Franc
2OO,OOO strong, was reduced to l20, 900. Upo
that discontinue, the Emperor of Austria fled {,
Dijon, with single attendant; and could have bee
made prisoner By single Frenchman But NJ
Frenchman could be found to perform that Office
Alter the treaty of Chaon, the Parsians a!on
could have destroyed the remnant of the allied ar
my, had they willed Its destruction. But the Pa
risans said no. We have two alternatives Bot
dreadful! Both deeply humiliatins!! Both heart
rendinG! Both fervenily to be deprecated! Bu
better hazard the doubtful dominion of foreign foe,
than longer to endure the certain evils, inflicted
the domestic schemng tyrani. Fayette--the goot
the great, the patriotic Fayette-at all times, all
under all circumstances, the devotee of the right
of man, the Nations Guest, was there. He, toe
preferred submission TO foreign foes--dreadful a.
tentative TO his sublimaed soul-rather than tn
longer endurance of domestic tyranny: rather tina
further schemes OF mad ambition. And whilst I'll
splendid schemer lies low in St. Helens, what la
become of his insulted and degraded country III
bleeding impoverished counlry--plundered of ht
rights, has been compelled 10 seek for peace an
safety in her ancient deprecated regime. Deplc
Table destiny both oil the tyrant and of his country
Ought not this recent example to afford awfu
instructive lesson to the little fashionable sch,
of the day? Does it not teach the litt
ephemera fashionables, whilst stru,ting in a Iitt
brief, unmerted authority, the deporable conse
quences OF depriving man OF his great, original, e.
sental, native rights? And of usurping them b
the mere force of governmental power /! OF d.
priying individual of the right to sell to who
he pleases, and to buy from whom he pleases? {
stripping linn oil his right TO property; and of forcir
upon him " Home Market? This was one
the greatest political sins committed by the grea
splendid schemer of France; and, Sin il
nough to doom him to his Inundated destiny i