The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-07-11 00:00:00, page 2

Citizens,and Brothers ; Virtuous Sifters;
'and,on Hnorable Strangers,
MEMBERS of a free Peo
ple; who.this day unite
in a simple tho' sublime solem
nity, of which future ages will
preserve the memory, pardon;
if I do not exprefs,with all that
energy which you have a right
to expert, the fehtiments that
animate you. And you,(if there
be any such within these walls)
vile flatterers of Kngs, slaves of
vulgar prejudice, whd still bear
the fhameful figris of ancient
servitude— —if the manly ac
cents of liberty should wound
your ears—fly— for this day we
celebrate its teaft.
Citizens, you have partaken
in our enthusiasm, you have
applauded a project of uniting
under these vaults, raised by the
docile piety of your fathers, the
ensigns of four great free nati
ons ; your and our wishes are
accomplished. Behold this bril
liant signal of your glory, this
standard planted by victorious
hands [l4th July 1789] on the
towers of theßaftile ; after being
Sprinkled with their blood. Con
template this moment, for ever
imperishable, of your victory o
ver a despotism of 1400 years.
Glorious conquerors of that
royal prison !— Reimon, Safor,
Coulame, Blanchard, Ihevenin,
Levafoar !~ —names once ob
scure, but which France preci
ously collects in her annals. The
homage we now pay to your
virtues will not discharge
the debt of a grateful country.
Nature owes you a second Ho
mer, to transmit to future gene-|
rations your glory& your death. 1
We shall strew some. flowers|
also on your tombs,ye citizens of
Montauban ; glorious martyrs of
French Liberty ; youngDtf//es,
and you, ye National Guards of|
Haney, who were the firft to sealj
with your blood the oath to die
for your country and in defence
of its sacred laws.
Frenchmen ! if you could e
ver forget at what priceyou re
covered your rights; if you
could cease to understand the
inestimable blessing of Liberty ;
if you hesitate a momnt to make
new facrifices to it; begin now,
by pulling down from this an
tique vault, that honorable tok
en of the valour of your ances
tors which the standards of free
nations with which it is now sur
rounded would then cast from
them with ignominy. Put ,far
from you this troublesome wit
ness which would reproach your
Ihame; and hide it froml the
view of the universe. No; rath
er come, come then, and rally
under its sacred shade; it Ihall
diffufe over your foul new
strength, new heroism.
Os M. Mirandon, at the Civic
Festival at Bourdeax, in De
cember lafi.
ADDRESS.
Brave Englishmen, our elder
brothers in Liberty! you need
not blush at a fraternal alliance
with part of" the ^Citizens of
France. Acquitaine, where rest
the ashes of your valourous an
cestors, the toil which you once
inhabited, is still impregnated
with your masculine virtues.
. This standard which bore the
glory of your arms and the re
nown of your name over every
sea; which spreads your digni
fied manners and your philofo
phick spirit from the rocks of
Mount Hecla to the mouths of
the Ganges; which under the
illustrious Cook, traversed an o
cean hitherto unknown to the
Navigators of the Globe—this
glorious standard will never re
jeft with disdain the colours of
France. You are doubilefs wor
thy to give lessons of liberty,
thou brave and sublime people;
who in those barbarous ages,
when all the other nations of the
earth bowed their servile heads
to the yoke of despots, raised to
the rank of heroes, those brave
companibns of Leicester, who di
ed sword in hand fighting against
one of your Kings. You are
worthy ta give lessons of liberty;
you who under the eyes of the
haughty Louis XIV, despising
the league of the tyrants of Eu
rope could banilh into the soli
tudes of St.Gcrmains a supersti
tious & pusillanimous monarch,
too Unworthy indeed to govern
Englishmen. You in fine, who
30 years before the glorious
Revolution of 1688 gave the
oppressors of nations the terri
ble example 4 flop—fur
rounded as yet with the Twadd
ling cloaths of liberty, ort eyes
are perhaps still too weak to
bear this wonderful fpedtacle.
Wake at my voice immortal
shades of Russel, Sydney, Milton,
Hamden, and Price. Issue from
your venerable tombs, & receive
the homage of a people,capable
of appreciating your virtues.
Can we forget you, oh gene
rons Volunteers of Belfaft, who
have been the firft to demon
strate your alacrity by offering
up your vows for the success of
our Revolution. And you, vir
tuous Independents of Dublin,
to whom philosophy will owe
her triumph over Intolerance,
and the prejudices of religi
ous feds—and you too, venew
Stanhope, sage Priestley, eloquent
Tooke, judicious Paine, indefa
tiguable Cooper—you Ihall share
our homage.—Our arms shall
stretch across the waves of the
ocean to press you to our bos
om—and our hearts on the
wings of thought fly over the
space which separates us,to min
gle with yours.
Magnanimous Washington,
Citizen- hero; who fteppeft equal
in dignity to Kings, in the midst
of a free people.—The thirteen
stripes which thy hand has
traced upon this august stand
ard, shall remind us of thy per
severance and thy Romam vir
tue. 'Twas around this sacred
'pledge of victory that thou didst
assemble for the firft time, the
American militia at Lexington.
'Twas this which fixed the fate
of thy Republic, in the fields of
Roxbury of Princetown, on the
plains ot Saratoga and Monmouth
—which delivered from the
yoke, the proud waves of the
Delaware. Tis this in fine,that
in July, 1776, crowned the tree
of Liberty, railed by thy victo
rious hands, & which announc
ed to wondering Europe, that
Heaven protects the cause of
the people against the opprefli
on of tyrants, Washington!
the renown of thy glory has an
ticipated the voice of posterity
—already has it inscribed thy
hame in the annals of a free
people. I fee it in the fandua
ry of the temple of memory,be
fide the name Franklin, dart
ing rays oflightning which this
new Prometheus could snatch
from the fire of Heaven.
Shades ofMoNTGOMERY,KALB,
Polaski—you saw your tombs
covered with palms of victory,
while the base Arnold, loaded
with the contempt of the uni
verse, wandered from ihore to
ffiore, every where rejected with
public horror and execrations.
May the enemies of our coun
try, may all traitors to their
oaths, be thus rejected by the
contempt of nations!
Brave Americans, you never
calculated the facrifices you
have made to liberty. No,for to
generous fouls, life without it is
but an approbrius burthen—B
whole years have you fought in
its defence—B years have you
fuffered every thing for her—
and we Frenchmen—we who
have gained it by aconqueft—
in a ddy! we who wakened free
on the 14th July, tyßg, after a
steep of 14 centuries—can we
accuse the fates of some shocks
inseparable from this great po
litical phenomenon? Brave A
mericans! it was not by mur
muring against her thatyou con
solidated your liberty, & found
ed the empire of the laws on an
eternal bafo.
Liberty ! is it then a blefling
so common, that we should dare
to purchase it at so cheap a price.
Ah, certainly it must have coil:
you much, to tear yourselves
from your mother country, to
turn a hostile hand against friends
and brothers—but does not even
infancy'itfelf rebel against the
constraint in which paternal au
thority wishes to retain it. —
While oppression puts arms in
your hands against this too cru
el mother, proud Albion tho'
astonished at your boldness, be
came proud ofyour success. She
could not but own that warlike
blood which runs in her own
veins—that ardent thirst of lib
erty by which her sons are con
fumed frem childhood—&ev^
when (he yielded to the power
of your arms, ihe was proud ^
her defeat, and secretly applaud
ed your fuccels.
now attracts your regard. Fiona
the banks of the Fiflula ar^d the
BoriAbates,t bears towards im-
mortality, the name of Stanfo
laus.—StaniJlaus, who kindled
by the torch of philolophy, en
fiamed by the generosity of his
nature, guided by experience &
perhaps by the solemn example
which the scene exhibited, de
livered a great People from the
yoke of the Nobles of his Em
pire. May the benign genius of
this monarch prepare for this,
nation and for himfelf, a new
source of glory —by sweeping
from his states the remains of
feudal tyranny. Pardon, O1
StaniJlaus, if we point out this
great benefit to thy noble foul
— Pardon if we do not render to
thy labours that plenitude of
praise, which thy generosity has
doubilefs a right to demand.
But the friends of liberty are
aukward in flattering Kings—
And while they cannot refufe to
thy virtues the tribute of their
esteem—a salutary distrust per
mits them not to lavilh on it
too much praise.
And thou, great man whose
image renews the grief ot France,'
and the immenle prey which
death has seized • ,thou, one of
most intrepid defenders of the
great Charter of mankind,Mira
beau —this day belongs to thee
since we consecrate it to liberty.
Inflame the orators who shall
afeend this tribunal with that
virtuous detestation cf tyrants
which thou displayed from thy
cradle. Let the wretch who
would dare here to betray the
caufeofthepeople,trembleate&,
afperating thy indignant shade.
Let thy image; in fine, be to his
pusillanimous foul, the threat
ning sword hung by a thread
over the head of Damocles.•
Honorable Strangers, when
you shall return to your own
countries, bear to your fellow
citizens the prayers of the in
inhabitants of Girende ; and the
gratitude of the friends of the
Constitution. May the echoes
of the Thames, the Ohio, and
Nieper, repeat the ardent wishes
which we form for their felici
ty, for the confirmation of their
liberty. Tell them, that the
happiness of Frenchmen will
consist in drawing more closely
with.them thole fraternal cords
which already unite them. lell
them that our ambition is to
extinguilh even the memory of
those natural enmities which go
vernments formerly laboured to
make their people participate.
Tell them, in short, that pte
lofophy and humanity wait on
ly fdr their union, in order ra.
break the chains of the rest
the world.;
Citizens —iheLithuanianEagle