Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-05-15
SJAPENDED .4RIYcLES.
From The Providence .4Beyicaa.
QiALOGuE BETWEEN MIR SOIL ]

From The Providence 4D'eyicdR.
DIALOGUE BETWEEN MIR. SOIL AND
MIR. SUFFRAGE.
mr. S0il-What good news, do You have, Mr..
Suffrage, since town-meeting
Mfr. Subidge-Mr. Soil, have made many
proselytcs this season. and the people believe l. il,
right, ough, TO be free aud independent voter
Impossible to tell you of the fine show aud gaudy
dress tue editors have adorned with. My
presence, indeed, was enchanting at town-mee l.
ing, and have the promise of a london hotel in
town like the arcade; TO be hero, and 60 TO the
General Assembly this season.
Mr.. Soit-Mr Suffrage, and rightly named too;
for you have no just right OF your own, all but
your name you borrowed Of me, and that is too in
significant for ne 10 claim. Only look and see
who support You. They borrow their bodies, food
and raiment, from my bountiful hand, and like the
wretched jews they deny their creator. You
boast OF your proseiytes (but such are not my
Hotel, your plumes, your wonderful presence and
assembly hero, your masquerade balls, and con-
quests In other parts OF my Yineyard,b enter not
into Rhode Island, Sir.
Mr.. SuGrGgs-Frond Soil, you are bgot;
YOU talk like mad man; let me tell you MIR.
Soil, that this world made free for me as
well as you. You are rightly named foot-s,ool;
confess am not like you, neither are my fol.
lowers. We are Gto0e you, and 1 should DO
ashamed of myself, il l were as dirty fellow
as you are. II my body, food and raIment, are
borrowed Of you, possess the power, TO turn
you 10 account; and but Tor you would starye
In the midst Of all your pretended plenty, for
lack Of some one to i'elp you consume your pro-
/ do not deny my maker. Beauty, labor, skill and
the fine arts, are my Cod. All other portions of
this Republic, save one, have conquered, and
j, the hero, will subdue Rhode Island. She can
not resist my army, commanded by that inyRcibie
general, public opinion
Mr.. Soit-Mr. Suffrage, / want nothing 10 TO
with you, except to help pay my taxes, put ont
my fires and fight my battles This is all you
nnA fnr al, 4.
fering you to breathe the air, when you do not
owo particle OF my property. You are a lazy,
Idle, lying fop, drunken gambler living by
borrowing, knaYe; you hold fast to your old in
tegrtty-sny thing-but, workable my plant
ipg, sowing, and cuilvating the good fruits OF
spring, will chat with you again AMI see if can't
bring you to reason. If stop to idle away my
time, you will all starye and your name will perish
You are going to upset every thing; you have
destroyed good old Adam and now are not Willing
10 let US have the Clay.
Mr.. SufrageWeIi, good by, Mr. Soil. Its
pity that one who has been so much cultivated
as you have, should not have learnt better breed
ing. But never mind, only ask OF YOU 10 give
me my rights or if you don't choose TO do that,
since old king Charles gave you the power, and
you can keep it,'why | would thank you the next
time your house is on fire, you aro invaded 70
work the Engine or shoulder the firelock yourself
You had better pay your own taxes too, aud not
put every cent Of them upon me.
yHT. So1I.-Ah, Mr.. Suffrage, it takes two 10
make bargain. have got your nose 10 the
grindstone, aud mean 10 keep il there.
Captain Basil Hall, the traveller pGr excellence,
who was TO give the British public the cIearest in
sight into American manners and affairs, and whom
Sir Walter Scott thought so eminenIly fitted for
the delicate task, has, according 20 the Caledo-
Dian Mercury, given the following as the general
result III biz observations on our country. The re-
marks made at the Edinburgh meeting in IA
your OF Catholic Emancipation. The honest sea-
captain says, with al least sufficient bluntness.-
81 am just returned from America. In that
country there is far less freedom than in Britain
Jess freedom Of thought. And this ascribe to
Che principle Of their government--unversal suf-
frage and the want Of an established church. But
have written my observations on the subject, and
viii tell you all about 1t by and bye. l concur in
the present petition, because the measure which it
supports is calculated 10 secure the blessing Of an
established church-and because il is TO be accom-
panied with the abolition OF the forty shilling free.
holders--and thereby 10 restrain the greatest curse
in any couatry--a democracy"
We are curious 10 see in detail the premises
from which these sweeping conclusions, are drawn
Our traveller should remember how he was hoax.
ed at Loe ChOo. He had at least ample opportl.
nities Of learning the truth in America, having
been received with that confiding hospitality TO
which, IN despite Of many lessons, our country
men are very prone in the case Of English travel
iers. The captain labours, it is 10 be presumed,
under the national mania described in the follow
ing passage from IpoderB french writer:
"We Fidcuie the ignorance OF the Chinese when
.iey show us map Of the world in which Chi
IA alone occupies a greater space than all other
countries put together. Bot there IL Another peo
re- much more civilized and enlightened, whose