Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1841-08-31

LIBERTIES required il; if we could perceive that no
Administration, however wise, honest, or imPafuai'
c,ud have carried us clear OF it, if could perceive
lis cxprdicncy, and reasonable hope of obtaining lis
,rolcsscd object; ii could perceive these ihIn9 e
" AR would in measure cease 10 be HORRIBLE. ~
would grow tolerabe, in idea, as It's EArEDiENef silouo
be made manifest. lis iron and bloody features would
soften as ITS Justice grew apparent.
"But we are constrained 10 sly, tbat We cannot, !"
conscience ascrbe the foregoing characteristics to tnr
present war We wholly mistaken, It The
causes assigned lnr the present war against Emu
LAND will bear the test Of these principles. IT, e.
Ofiuslce necessity, cxpedency, and the mpres'nen'
OF seauien destruction of our commerce, the taiper
inv with the Indians Ia massacre citizens on the
frontiers the insult flag, firing upon vessels
boarding the President OH the part o.! the British nls
ter exciting Glsunion, murderous attack on the 'rgntc
Chesapeake John llenrys tory mission to rouse up ~
England, &c
oIhe imprcss,nent of seamtn which forms the most
plausible and popular Of the ALLEGED causes OF war,
we BELIEVE to have been the subject OF great misre
| presentatIou Are we fight the battle oil
| British seamen' Webster laid il down that England
could examine our ships to get her own Subjects on
forgot to tell that 379 American citizens were I'M
pressed. go
"The nation is totally unprepared for war. We say
totaliu unprepared, yet we deprecate II, most y
nm as we view in il the Ia binger of French alliance
Then follows an appeal for the Government ''lo re-
store the blessings of Peace and Commerce
| The Convention of FederalIss after the adoption OF
Webster memorial, went INTO NOMINATION iur cdhu
oes $50 no IN C0nyress To- oppose The rar, At the head
If which ticket the Feds unanimously placed DAN
TEL WEBSTER. Was he no enemy 10 the war: =
lie has ever been peace in war, and trucker TO
| Britain
His votes from July 1912 to Jan. 1915 were against
American Rights and therefore favorable TO brlsh SUI
lie voted apans, ertrp JiH 10 Gil the ranks Of the
army 10 nv clothe and feed soldiers and against
drtrayinnihc frpense IF me Macy
| Cary. fOliye Branch, 9Th edition, page 200 says
The O.ises, the Blakes, the llansons, and the WEB
| STEERS, appeared determined to 'put down'-yes,
| reader PUT DOWN is the word-t is strong, sig
nGcant and nnequvocal-l say, "to PIT dozen The III
miaistratioa for sirennously insisting those rights
for attempting to shieid Tic seaman from the iron grasp
If his eas!arcr.
Cary then appeals 10 sGov. Strong, Gen Cabot,
A. &. Oils, and DANIEL WEBSTER" 10 dispute
the fact, aud charges them with fALsEnooD, as to
the impressed seamen. Cary tells them that "lour
party Uhe Feds rise as your country SINKS -" 70"
rise as hat despondng, iaeeraed perishing, betray
ed couatrY sinks" He asks the Federal party, If
they are pre- pared 10 incur all the risk, TO suffer all
the rain that revolution will infably produce, to
able Christopher Gore, Cyrus King, and DANIEL
| WEBSTER TO seize on the reins of Government,
and EMILE "to Eliza, or EXECUTE with Cyrus KING $
celebrated 'uaLTEE' your venerable first Magistrate,
! Madison y slhe incorporate and unholy VII
ience Of these LEADERS, he adds, ''prcven the Fede-
rasts from doing right, &c. Cary afterwards says,
II the Sedton Law of rs had been IN force, ne
Chtlendens, discs, chickering's, BlaAes, WEBSTERS,
&c, must have them 10 gloomy prison, brsdcs
paying fine of $4,000. "But Heaven avertcd this
nation from the awful results Of The treason &c o..
.uci men. Al the time Webster VAS denounc:ng our
/ Government, the leading Federal paper in Boston,
uhe SEEMINGLY said awe, nhe Feds, must throw off
all connection with this wastrlul war, MAKE PEACE
4 WITH THE ENEMY, and open once mure our com.
i merce which would be wise and manly course.
"The Boston Advertiser tFed) sad-we must 'ritt.
hmd our MONEY, and make SEPARATE PEACE
I WITH ENGLAND"
THIS TREASON, among The Federal Congressman,
such as Webster, aud Of the Hartford Convention ai.
forwards was infused among the leading Federas,s
Of the country And yet Webster is SAID never 10 have
been an enemy his country hui always devoted pa
,riot-aboa such patriot the Tories, whom our ia
theirs hung IN l.7S
When the Albany Argus lends lis ability and weight
to urhl and sustain individual, of whose public
acts iha above faithful synopsis, we will JOIN the
"lniegencer" in denouncing 1t as a Tory Organ.