The Enquirer

THE ENQUIRER.

RICHMOND, MARCH 20, 1812.

THE RALLYING POINT.

The good friends of the British in this country are making every effort to turn our attention from the true point before us. This is the habitual resource of that party; They will not suffer the public mind to rest upon the atrocious acts of G. Britain; and with this view they eternally start up some fresh game, to draw us aside from the question.--They think, that the more they distract the feeling of the people, the more they enfeeble it-the more time that is given to other points, and the less to their own cause, the better it is for them. . . . . :

Every artifice, which can be used, is now put in play to screen the British government from our indignation. These men wish to see nothing in the disclosures of Henry, but a pitiful electioneering trick in the President. Some of them say that his papers are forgeries. Others, that he has touched $48,000-some put up one shadow, and-some another.--But the great and damning fact, after all, is, the insidious and profligate attempt to dissolve the Union of these States by means of a British Emissary. It is on this. that the public mind will rest-at last-- Disguise it as though it. this is the naked and damning fact which will address itself to the feelings of every American Citizen.

Most emissaries, wish to please their employers by a language which is congenial to their feelings.-Thus Mr. Henry "laments the repeal of the embargo; because it was calculated to accelerate the progress of these states towards a revolution that would have put an end to the only republic that remains to prove that a government founded on political equality can exist in a season of difficulty and trial, or is calculated to insure either security or happiness to a people."--Yet this same Sir James Craig would have been the very first to cant about Bonaparte's antipathy to our freedom, and (G. Britain's being the great defender of the liberties of the human race.

Mr. Henry, when captain in the U. S.' army. was once stationed at Harper's Ferry; and, by way of frolic, attempted to overthrow the picturesque rock, which has been called "Jefferson's Rock."--The same man was audacious enough to attempt to overthrow the rock of the union of the U. S.

The erasures are very suspicious- they are "the loop-holes on which to hang a doubt?"

Mr. Henry says to Mr. Coale. that his "political mission or the papers connected with it (do not) contain a single line that can expose any human being in the U. States"-His "papers" do not : for these "contain" erasures. And how his "political mission" can "contain lines." we are at a loss to understand. It is a sort of expression entirely new to us. All that Mr. H. says, is, that he has not exposed a single being in the U. S, not, that he could not have done it yet boast of their ingenuity.