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From the Enquirer.
THE CENTINEL No I.
I I ‘ To the Republican puny ! !
I A'vake; arise; the Philistines
I be up^ Q y° u anc * '’ ou shorn
I , ofyour strength. U this & sleep
into which ye are fallen ( Alas!
I it much resembles the sleep of
| death— or is it a political appo-
I 1 plexy, in which it is only necessa
-1 ' ry that you should be let blood, to
I 1 revirc you? —That operation is
I ! performed. Look to New York :
I it, e Federlists have taken that j
I 1 itate; against your friends there, 1
I they have commenced a war of
I utter extermipation, root & branch
and given you a sample of what
you are to expect when they get i
5 the general government. Shake
I oft this leathergy before it be too
I ‘date, While yet you may be saved,
I break from this leaden sleep; <
I ) start from this fatal trance.
1 Arouse ; look about you j see
I | the progress which your political
I | enemies have already made, and
1 j the total and overwhelming ruin
I with which they threaten you.—
I j Do you not #ee that the repub-
I '/lican minority* the sole authors of
I j the federal resurrection, have
I thrown themselves into the arms
I and bosom of that party ; have
1 become completely incorporated
I with \herri ; anci that this united
■ body,-rom one end ot the conti-
I ne«t to the other, are- making a
1 series of systematic, mris: perse.
1 vering efforts 'o overturn your
1 power and mouat themselves in
-1 the seat of authority ? And what
8 have you to expect from their sue
8 cess ?
■ I beg you to, pf.nse upon this
8 question, and put it over again in
I the most solemn form to your,.
■ selves. Consider the past, and
8 then ask, what have you to expect
■ from (he success of the federlists
8 and minority ? Look at the colour
8 of their seDtimenas on the floor
1 Congress, and then doubt, if you
I can, that as to our foreign mat.#
■ ters the first thing will be a British
■ alliance ; and the fate of every
■ British ally on the Europeon con**
I l ' neDt • I appeal to experience, &,
I fitk, if for these last ten years, at
I least, the alliance of Great Britain
■j not been the unerring prog-.
■|'| tiostic of ruin to a llv ? Whether
■ l^c . caused British friendship has
■ »>« uniformly chalked out the
I tra ct of French victory and tyran.
1 hetbrr as soim as Bri
■ ' tish attachment has marked tile o!>.
S Whe lightning of Franco has
■ oot been ever readv t 0 fall and
■ ast it ? Whether G. Britain, in
■ “d, instead us protecting those
■ she professed to befriend,
■ **?'.not metely played *hc jackal!,
S ) * Lion’s provider to France, 5c
■ ,n uniing up an ally merely bun
■ *' up a victim for her persu
| .She will .(ill follow thiscoiir.- •
I .IT" 1 f °"°" r ” for '*>» * policy
I ' '4 e ‘. Sin, , ial .* 0 h " Uva.
8 ZL i \' u ?!?-'"•* » S»me of
I . o "'"h tliccrnperor „( France;
1 li n -T' hc "' Vc ’ a ch " ck '» her
1 diJ’ k a "“ ,t ,n '"P°« another
1 km.'lT th ' W "P’ for har
I I"'" '« i-uerpo
■lstor* ii ' »
‘ ■ benhU' Her OvV “ Tuln can,
I alreTdv r" SUs P™*<].-Sh C l«*
1 >urcrZ' ts ?‘ e tI,C with
1 posing \ “ IChaS 00 intcr '
m *mnt h' c at ! er state ’ un,u Bo
■ has taken,them all—and
1 let. 1 " • cxtre «'HV, that she
IT? thc Ailantic tons.
' I P f epared to serve her
1i j l Are wi ready to move
1 I » r ‘d talrr K| Cr and Bona Parfp
* I which’ is aimed
f | lh,, - c Whtn *«* *!•« <Eserve
" I il »Q th r lf ce . at ° ur Lands ? Was
I I Mu-v e , e G'oning of the 17th run
-1 -* 1 *" for lh.irr.lWi
-1 P’nton., .he drove out OUT
1 HmH!**’ W ' , f l f jre anf t fafi? o '*
1 ""•'hcirn„i„.|, ndi 3 J\ f :
MIRROR OF THE TIMES
; tewa r ds followed them with her
tvrannv into this western forest ?
I Was it in ! (>5 when she parsed ’he .
stamp act.; or in ’75 when enfor
cing it, she carried fire and a word
through our land ? Was :t by ar
unprovoked, unjust, cruel and
unrelentig war, waged against us,
for eight years, with the aid of sa
vages who spared neither age nor ‘
sex, and who covered the land ;
with blood and conflagration ? Or
was it by the insidious peace ot
1753 which has proved to us, only
tvar ijn disguise—a war upon our
I commerce, h our neutrel rights—a
J war to all the purposes of plun.
' der. caprnre, imprisonment and j
death vitness the lawles- con • .
, demnations of our ships, the niuL j
j tiplied bankrupcies of our m*?r
--! chants, the groans of thousands of
! our citizens in B itish dungeons, 1
I far from their parents, wives, chiL
j dren, brothers and friends, the
blood of Pierce which still cries
to heaven for vengeance, and the
cowardly slaughter of the Ches
apeake, over which the honor of
the nation still blushes & weeps ?
Was it, I ask, bv conduct lik v .>
this that G. Britain has entitled
i herself to expect that we will step
in between France and her ?
“ But Great Britain, they tell
us is fighting the battles of the
world ; her navy is f»ur shield ; /
& in joining with her, we are only ■
making bead against thc common
enemy of the world.’ 1 This h
the very argument which has ruin
ed every 9tate in Europe—it has
been urged to them all, one after
another; one after another has
been seduced bv it, and one afier |
another, they have fallen in rapid
success.on. Would you avoid |
their fate, avoid the fatal friend. ;
ship of Great Britain ; and would |
you avoid the latter, awaken all j
your energies and counteract with
vigor the machinations of
the federalists and minority com- |
bined ? See in what perfect con»
cert they are moving* Mark
their vigilance, industry, dexteri
ty and boldness. Look at their
elaborate and indefatigable opera
tions in Congress and the State
Legislatures—Look at the constant
intriguing, mining, preaching, j
working of their agents and emis. i
Sark'S in every quarter of the U • j
mon—Look at the Herculean la- j
hors of their presses; mark how
perfectly constantaneous their
movements ; how’ the same argu
ment, the same objection, sound
ed by the federalists, is echoed <
back by the minority and again •
reverberated by the federalists, in
order to swell the clamor & make ;
a show of force A strength which •
ill fact, they have not. Have J
they not, in the hardiest spirit of
adventure,dispatched aparti/ian to
the metropolis of Virginia, in or
der to teach us Yankey politics,
under the character ot a Virgima
-
patriot? And has not th-s youth,
tollowed up the spirit ol his mis
sion, undertaken to convince us,
that codfish is bacon, and rancid
train oil, the essence ol ham ? A
youth, born and bred up in the
rancour and intolerance of New
England federalism, settled in,
Richmond to teach politics to Vir
gintans l Who would have expec
ted this in 1798 ? Who would
have expected it on the glorious
! 4th of March 1810 ?
Let us, however mark the fact,
and read in it a proof ol that s«i_
tied and regular system which the
| federalists have formed, and on j
, which they are working to get 1
j the government agtin into their
hands. Are you witling, that they
should get the government again
intu their hands r Have you tor
gotten the excise stamp act, the
: direct tax, and the whole stupen- ]
dous tand of internal taxes under
which the farmer was bowed down
and broken i Have you forgo:tra
. the eight per cent, loans in tune of
peace.: And in tpite of- this, the
accumulation (d the public debt,
<s hoi d the mirror up to nature.” — Shakespeare.
hreamning the nation with an ir
-edermtble mortgage or a total
>*nk r oprcv ? H tvr vou forgotten
ihc passion for standing armies.&
tavies ? Hive yon forgotten the
warm of executive dependants
hat covered the land »nd blight
'd its prosperity ? Have you for
gotten tbe latitude given to the
j Constitution, by .construction, ami
i the inclination Which w.w perp 'tu
j ally betraving itself, to screw up
the Presidential chord to the tone
of monarchy ■ Ag»d, finally, to
-lefeat anv concerted resistance
against these inroads upon <>*»r
treedom, do you not reiVirmb-rr
tlte fatal sedition law ; wivi »g ns
■ leaden sceptre the f ind, aul
; robbing us even of the poor toi - j
solution ot complaint ?
D o you wish such afmthtV
• night, so dark, so cold to return It
cover our liberties ? If yon Ho
not say again, shake off t<ie torpor 1
which has benumbed you--—-call i
up all your spirit ; urme all your I
strength ; oppose vigilance to !
vigilance and concert to concert I
It is only by such a conteSi, ihut j
truth can have fair play and with
fair play, she will prevail.
CONGRESS. ,
Houfeof Representatives.
April: i.
| COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE.
! The Houle then relolved i lelf
i into a committee of the whole, ,
Mr. Deflia in the chair on the j
bill concerning commercial in- |
teicotirfe between the United
States and Great Britain and
| France and their dependencies*
j & for other purposes.
Mr. Gholfon irioved to ftr’he i
! out the 3d lection of the bill 1
; and inle» tin lieu thereof three
fcfclions Laving in view,!. — a
complete non importation of
i French and British goo Is j 2
To inved the. President of the
United States whh provilional
power to suspend the law in
relation to either in case of a
repeal or lulficient modifyea.
! tion of their edicts ; 3. To
employ the army and navy of
1 the U. State, to enforce thc 1
| system..
Mr. Taylor opposed the a *■ ;
, rhendment.
Mr. Garland, spoke again 11 |
the bill and amendment.
Mr. Lyon called lor a rlivi- ,
1 fion of tire oueltion, and spoke ;
againfl the bill and amendment- j
; Mr. Gholfon replied at length
• to Mr. Taylor.
The commilte rose £t four
o’clock, reported progrels and
obtained leave to fit again,
; The Houle adjourned.
Api'il 12. . j
The bill sorest aoh firing post
roads was read a third time drtd
pafled.
The Houie took up for con
sideration the amendments of
the Serjateto the bill regulating j
the polt olhce ellalilliment.
I'hc fir ft amendment under
confideratton propo*ct! to Unite
out of the bill a provilion for |
| the appointment of Eve agents j
or deputies to aid the post M il* .
ter general in the execution o' .
j the duties of his office.
7’his amendment was con- ,
fiderably debated. The argU- .
mentsin its favor groun
ded on the convenience and 1
lecuriiy to the conveyance of
the mail which would rcfulc
from such an arrangement. —
j Arguments against it were
found in the additional expence
j with which it would burthen the
Post office eftablilhement, and
1i in the increased patronage ii
would give »o an officer who aL
j ready poflelied it to a great ex
j tent.
r Fhe House concurred in
I this amendment of the Senate,
j Yeai y.i, Nays 31.
Ano her amendment propo
fes to take away fro n all poll
mailers the right th- y hereto
fore enjoyed r>f franking let
ters. This amendment was
\ disagreed to, Ave -
7 * *. 1
Another amen invent propo
' fed ro require the pavmem
into the treasury »',f all profits of
any V. mailer in thc U S which
ftnll exceed two thoufan d
dollars a year. Thi*. amen i
ment vrasconcurred hi.
1
I’he Houle got through the
: amendments by 5 o’clock when
1 they adjourned.
Apt tl 1 4.
The House took up fur cnnli
| deration to the tnclfage from tne
j Senate Haling their recelfidn
from a’l thofc amendments but
| one to the bill regulating the
P. G. ellablifhment which
wete disagreed to by the Houle.
[ Hie amendment made bv
the Scnlre, disagreed to by the
house of Keprelentativts, and
now in lifted on by the Senate,
;is to insert the following fee-•
tion to the wotdi in Italic. |
t<s l hat i! any person other
than the Poll Mailer General
or his- deputies, or per lons by
them employed, shall be con.
; cerried in letting up or main
' tairtingany foot or horTe post,
llage or Heigh on any eftablilh
ed poll road, or from one poll
town to another poft.town, on
any road adjacent or paralel to
an eitablilhed poll road, or any
packet boat or other velfel to
ply regularly from one place
to allot her between which a re
gular communication |T_y rua
; ter] lhall be eitablifhed by the
United States and IhaM recieve
any letter or packets other than
• newspapers, Src. Src- lhall lor.
J lett for every such oltence the
! lum of fifty dollars.”
The elf vet of the amendment
j is to permit packets to carry
! letters' from one poll town to
j another; and as it was conten
ded, to prevent the General
j Pott oftiye from cllabiilliing
wafer mails on a Ivantageous
; terms, by admitting the compe
tuion ol thele private convey.
| anee.]
A motion was mr.de by Mr.
; Rhea to ( E.) ro infill on their
disagreement to the amendment,
lue subject was warmly dc-.
bated# The Houle determined
to infill, Yeas 53, Nays 15.
On motion, ic was agreed
that a conference with the Se.
1 na<e be asked on the subject ;
and 2 commute v/as appointed
on the put of the Houle.
lhe bill providing for the
; falcs of Fubltck Lands in the
I Indiana teni ory and for other
I pnrpofes was read a third time
j and patfed.
' LIVERPOOL, Sunday Afternoon
Feb. 11.
I write you to apprize you
lof one of the moll calamitous
events that has occured in this
town since the memory of
man. A charity lermon was
to be preached at the old Paro
chial church thismorning, when
j about 10 minutes before the
. ulual time of beginning the fer-
I vice the Ueeple & 6 belli fell, thc
[No. 82.]
MONDAY, May 7, 1810
former carrying ’he whole ro 0 f
of the church with It Sc buried
in the ruins a great part of the
congregation that had already
ttflVrnb'ed. It is not vet known
how in tny people have perifh
rd as the ruins are no* half re
moved ; but about forty
dead and mutilated bodies
have already been extricated
from them, the poor charity
, children we fear fuffered mod,
as they were seated immediately
under the centre of the roof.
A feene so afflicting, I never
b-held j the heart rending
cries of the relatives of the d*ad
and of tliofe unsound, and the
dreadful groans of the unhappy
1 offerers, were too much for
human nature to fuflain. AM
the laborers and many trades
men of the town arc digging
in search of the fnfferers ; and I
(uppefe to morrow we shall
know the extent of our raisfor*
tune.
Another l etter fame date fey r—
*' Had the accident happen,
ed a quarter of an hour later,
when the congregation ware
a (fern bled, t here is no calcu
lating to what extent the mis.
chiel would have been. The
iolicitous inquiry, and anxious
looks of parents who feared some
of their children might be found
among the dead, together with
the cries and moans of others
in the rubbish, presented a (cent*
too awful for deleriptiou. ,
> WHAT THEN!
As a deligent use of thefa
two words have been very be
neficial to myfelf, I am con
vinced, that if they were pro->
perly regarded, they might be
equally banefh hi to others,
When I was seventeen years
old my father died, and left my
mother, with trie'and fix other
children in great diftrels. My
aunt offered to take me as a
chambermaid* As I was live
ly, well ffiaped, and had a plea-#
ling countenance, foinc of my
friends disapproved my ac
ceptance of this offer.
An old oflter, who had al
ways been my father’s friend,
• heard of it, fir sent for me, ad
vising me riot to refulc, it con
ditionally that I would fortify
myfeii daily by looking up to
God for piotection, and he ad.
tied likewile ihat lie had pre
pared a faithful Monitor to
accompany me at all times and
in all places ; to which if I paid
a due regard, I should be saved
ffom a danger so much feared.
He gave me, written in large
letters on a card zvhat then ? en.
joining me always to have it a
bout me Sc frequently to refleft
on it. He more over charged
me that whenever any one flat
tered me by cOmmendin g ™Y
person, dilcoursing amortiufly,
or making love as it is Ca 1 d, I
should rteadily reply what then ?
and as often as any of them
repeated their proteflations of
love, Scq. I should as often re
peat what then ?
I adored him I fhotild endea
vor to follow his advice, and
accordingly I went to my aunt,
I had soon many admirers, to
whole address I altvays replied
zuhat then ? It had the intend
ed effect ; Sc ihus 1 got rid of
many vicious folictia lions and