Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-08-05

yerence for age - higa virtue III youth, a""
House and his country VIII Dear ne Witness ta, s'
IA 800 is h. On Often and !onr spared by my torbear-
once oxars , in respect alone 10 siis age ana .ie
a,,,;ors IN public c which lie has i'!cd ha'' or,
th,-c is nom, eyond which age ard staten u'"'. "o
H., a,nrd To- pass with IMMUNITY; and TO lie clic OF
,b censor who would plead old age against the reply
rn ah,,t 70 maze the member from Massachusetts,
/ ,,o,,lI saw tina. ore If higher authority than any
recoc.,se here (Le.d Chatham,) on memorable oc-
N his Parliamc nary lie, laid down the correct
I'll. a, his point In reply 10 "aipo!e, he SAID
,.R,a sure y ane may become justly coht"mpnoIe, II
,ho o,rar,unes which IL brings have passed away
without Improvement aud cice appears 10 Prcrd chen
,bc ,,o.s;ons hare subSdtd. The wretch who, alter
hav VIM seen the consequences G. thousand errors
continues sill! 10 blunGer, and whose age has only
added obsinacy TO stupidity rs surely the oo)"ct OF e.
ber Laorrcncc eoaomP, and dcserres not that ms
gyo,, head <hould secure him from insults.
.l,.h ,,orc - he to be abhorred who as he has ad
r,uc,d IN are has recfdcd from rrtne, and becomes
more ,cicseG ,ci,A less HptG;ion-choP rosht"ts him
sef for rmoneyl at cheh he cannot enoy and spends
Tie remains Of ms hte "a me run q ms country
Sir. have lct, ont one word OF The quotation as m
.n,i;,sle Ia Tie present case, ard have inserted
o,ber know nc, that the love OF "money that the
b,se, # Al vices eraricc is the vice predominant in
tho nrcsep, ins,ance--but there others character
;s,c nj him, "athorrent' and "coatcmp.i5le enough
- ns,fv me in saying Of this old man-wanlins in
self resrcct and respect 10 the feelings OF all hIs
brother men-wanting IN dignity of nge aud station
wanting IN truth and in Of juslice-want
inv in true courage, and told only in the imPu
pitv of ape-lull Of malice, and desperately bent
on serons mischief, public and private, for which
he is fully arned-lterally spending the remains
Of his life in the reasonable attempt to 'ruln
his country, instead OF preparing TO meet his God,
sin whose hands it is fearful thing TO fall, well
nav his imagination run upon demons and upon the
eycgious beo,or | will not say, "wIthou God and
wtRou, hope in the world, for viii judge not, lest
be Judged; but, standing with one foot in the grave
and " ho say how long the other will be Kept out
of it by n mercitul Proyldence-soon, in the course OF
human he, TO appear at the bar OF IN Almighty judge
unless the current Of his life is changed by DIVINE
Grace he may too soon be swept into the companions
ship Of demons nothing him in his own nature
nothing at ALL except it be that the nature ct the IN
carnae devil terrible as 10 make II unsafe tor nell
itself 10 hold him hereafter! The devil himself might
procs, against his being to hs abodes, lest IN
sur-ccton might be raised in his dark domnlons, espe
cial.y If any negroes be there!
am done now with his imaginary figures and per-
.onaaes and will return 10 his earthly iacts ana argn
meDts, ifthey deserve 10 be 50 called would say 10
hm-ior speak 10 him, and not 10 m imaginary being
that with his usual misrepresentation OF an adversary
he has not stated me correctly IN single instance
where he pretended 10 state what said n, all
Ills first is, that he represents me as having
SAID that majority Of the sailors in Navy do
not come from Massachusetts,. SAID no such thing
What did saw was tina, the sailors in Navy
whether not there was no certain means OF test
ing WHY Because there is no register OF the matt
vitv OF our seamen kept in the Navy. They are en-
listed everywhere. The recruiting stations are hume
rous and though is against the law 81 the United
States TO enlist foreigners into service, yet i, is no.
tnrons that many Of naval toreigntrS.
The Massachusetts, and the Virginia sailor will not en-
ter the service If he can be employed IN the cod hsh
cry or whale fishery, or in the coast trade man who
can earn FIVE six hundred dollars year in running
Il ianp ut l,o( 'hnso
pcakc Bay and be his eva free, will not enter the
United States service nine or ten dollars per month
and ra.iona and be subject 10 the severe d'scrpne oil
The cal.o'niGe.tails | SAID further, il happened
tha. tie most Of present enIlsimcns OF native sea-
men are made at The ports Of Buffalo and Ne~ Orleans,
and no, al any pert Of Massachusetts And what says
the member in reply Why, that ''such reason, IN
support Of such position, only shows that The per.
sonage in question is on level in his logic with
his rhetoric and his poetry" lie says "a sailor is a
bird of passage, and the place of his enlistment IS no
test whatever as To where he came from. Nov, Sir,
adm, TIE sailor isl bird Of passage in his nature
and his occupation hui deny that his place Of enlist
me test Gas 10 ,rhere he cGmc from; and
by asserting that it is test chaerr, the member be.
trays an utter ignorance of the nature and character OF
. seaman For example, what he SAYS is true in re-.
spect 10 New Orcans-perhaps the port he relied on
to illustrate his remark bat take Buffalo, the ether port
named tv ne, ard tic enlistment OF lake seaman,
fresh sratcr htre, would be almost positive
proof that the enlisted "aS not seaman oi -HaS-
sachusts The seaman of Massachusetts, are old salts,
and Cooper never illustrated n better known truth
than when he pictured in one of his late novels,
(ihe Path Endcr,) the haEtual nntrathy and con-
tempt Of salt water sailors 10 fresh water Navigation
and fresh water sailors. lsailo-s enlisted at New Or
leans might have been O: Massachusetts, there
are thousand chances 10 that those enlisted at
Buffalo were not salt water sailors of any Atlantic
State. So that the members logic is on level with
his own rhetoric and poetry Sir, never pretended 10
be re,oricln poet and God forbid ever shouio
unless my rhetoric and poetry should Tar suFpass That
Of one who could never with all his learning, be taught
either, tough he in his younger days pro-
fssor Of rhetoric: who ha. all his life been martyr 10
rhetoric, and rhetoric martyr to him; CT enc who or
mere rhctorcs sake, could never fo!bcar to strike
DAGGER cf words into the bosom Of friend, or from
mere vanity bedaub foe with praise; Of one who was
doomed by the clumsy rhetoric of his lighthouses m
Ike sky" messages, and Of his ebony and Topaz
toasis! so, Sir. no; even The Imagination OF sach
poet as could write tie hymcs Of Dusky Sally and
Dermott Mca1uuough, however used TO ghis through
tie sky or descents INTO the GLOVER regions, is strong
enough TO transpor, an old Cape Cod or Nantucket salt
deg across the continent 10 Buffalo, ana con
vert him mo a fresh mater sailor
! But Sir, suppose that all The SfGmen IN the Navy
were from Massachusetts, would Mat he reason why
al! the cGicers too Of the Navy should be from thai
State? On the contrary, SIR, according TO my poor
logic, the fact Of the Navy giving employment TO sc
accounting wen FOR the fact that Massachusetts, ha:
not had hcT full complement Of officers. Another rea
son. am cred5ly Informed, is, that commissions III the
Navy never until lately, so much sought alter by
your. men Of Massachusetts, O! New England, as by
those of ether States. 1t in time past cons
dcred go respectable there in Virginia TO be appoint
cd midshipman in the Navy.
Again Sir the member from Massachusetts says
"the same parsonage, Uhe demon from hell,) "ook
ing into his own heart and finding nothing there bu
the oulcs; corruption, imputed the same 10 other PEG
pe aud attributed the inequality Of his appointments
irom Virg;ni1 'to low mean, and personal motives in
him. SIR, did attribute 10 INN the lowest, meanes'
personal motives did so becausc | believe him, So
einnly, capable Of mean, low, and as base motives
as any which prompt The human bosom. have
every reason Lc1r hii 10 he capable OF such motives
and of the conduc, which naturally springs from them
What grounds had for imputa,'on OF such motives
Look \; the facts of he When in power, when
he had the appointing power in his own hands, lie
cave the appointments unequay, If not more So 10
vre.nin, Mary. land, and the District Of Columbia,
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