The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-05-13 00:00:00, page 1

The following important communication
wi.< read in the House of Reprefcniatives
of the United States ye it er day.
AFTER having laid the
foundation of our Lib
erty, it became incum*
bent on us to secure it.
A National Government is born,
and with it Vidory. Emanating
from the will of the people, it has
y?etr energy. For* the fslvation of
the State it has been refoYted to,
and the State is saved.—At its
Voice 15 armies are in motion, and
triumph. At its signal, interior
Order is restored: fruitful industry
is expanded । the conspirators fall..
We impart the neWs of the suc
cess of our armies to a people, who,
having obtained Liberty in afimi
lar manner with ourselves, cannot
learn, but with enthusiasm, of the
Vidories of Republicans, and the
downfall of Tyrants.
Policy already appreciates the
advantage of the re-taking of
Toulon. Already have the neu
tral powers proclaimed themselves,
and Genoa, indignant at the atro~
city Os our enemies, who have sul
lied her territory by the vilest and
blackest of crimes; Genoa has
resumed all her energy, and driven
the English and Spaniards from
her ports.
Tn the North, our triumphs, not
less brilliant, haVe given the com
bined powers some severe shocks.
Liberty, EquaLily, or Death.
^he P^eprefentatives of the French
People, Members of the Committee
of Public Safety—
To tfie Citizens, Members, of the Congress
^bf the United Stites of America :
They had dared to menace
Dunkirk, Maubeuge^ and Landau.
Fvery where have they been beat
en ; everv where have they been
put to Might; and even towards
the Rhine, our army in pursuit of
them, have advanced to the very
gates of Mayence.
Such is the long catalogue of suc
cess which unfolds itfelfatthe fame
moment, at every point, to which
the French Republic fends her in
vincible phalanxes.
So many vi&ories will convey
nothing astonishing to you; you,
magnanimous Republicans, who
will easily conceive the prodigies
which liberty is capable of per
forming, after having in this vast
career left to the defenders of the
people memorable examples*
You have already participated
in our triumphs, as well in thought
as political union : Our fuccefles
reverberate on you, and the fall of
our eternal and implacable ene
mies, will be as fatisfa&ory to A
merica as to outraged France.
Our cause is reciprocal; it is that
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of every people who honor hu
manity.
Thus Liberty will have too
points of fixture in the world; and
being an immovable Coloflus, (he I
will rest one foot on each hemis
phere.
At her voice let agriculture and I
commerce, those two sources of I
national prosperity, pouring out I
under our hands their mutual ex- I
changes, multiply, aggrandife, and
cement our friendly relations and I
public felicity.
Let usdifeardevery thing which
may disturb that neceflary harmo
ny pointed out by the nature of
.things, Rill more than by a re- I
ciprocal interest; . that harmony I
which has not a cautious, felfifh,
mercantile policy for its principle, I
but the esteem, the fraternity, all
the social and benifitent virtues
which flow from liberty. I
Honor, Prosperity, and Fraternity.
The , Reprefenratives of the
French people* Members of the
committee of public fafety.
Jeanboh Andre.
C. A. Prieur.
A. Batere.
Billaud Varenne.
R. Lindet.
Roberfpicrre.
Couthou.
Carnot.
Collot D’Herbois.
Paris ±2, Pluwiofe, Midyear of the |
French Republic,one & indiwifible.
{^th February, 1794.9
Faithfully tranjlated from the ori
ginal, by Gw. Taylors Jun.
April 23d, 1794.
We hear that the following vote
pafled the Senate of the United
States yesterday, unanimously
Ordered,
That the Letter of the Com
mittee of Public Safety of thel
French Republic, add refled to
Congress, be transmitted to the
President, and that he be requfted
to cause the fame to be answered
on behalf of the Senate of the U
nited States, in such manner as
(ball manifeft their sincere friend
lb ip and good will for the French
Republic.
It is under these glorious auspi
ces that the Reprefentarives of the
French People, are prefltd by the
desire of drawing closer more than
ever, the bonds of friendftiip, which
unite two great, generous, and free
nations.
In the House of Commons, On the
British Kings Speech, rejpebling
the conduit of the British Mimjiry^
towards neutral nations.
^VW^ITH refpedt to neutral
W powers^-said he, let En
gland blulh for her conduct at
Tufcany* At Genoa the Minister
had the daringness to tell them that
MR. F 0X 9 s SPEECH,
TUESDAY, May 13, 1794.
neutrality ought not to be preserv
ed ever, tho’ he had himlelf pre
served that neutral system till very
lately. To the Swift Cantons it
had been said, that it was hot pro
per to enquire whether in any com
mercial principles, it was proper
to preserve a peace with France.
“ And vet, the Minister had
boasted of his neutrality, at the
very time when he had been in
sisting to Sweden and Denmark,
that to be neutral was to be crimi
nal.
“Oh shame! oh, indellible spot
on the character of Great-Britain!
America, * you did not meddle
with through fear. You issued
an order which you were forced
to retraß. I havej uft read a speech
of Gen. Washington to the Con
gress, replete with wifdom* mode
ration, and firmnefs :*-*of that il
lustrious character, I must fay,that
excepting certainly theßoyal Fam
ily of this country, I must fay, that
in comparifoh with him, all the
Kings in Europe are contemptible.
“His wisdom and fortune must
irideed be great, by fortune I do
not mean to detract from his wis
dom, but his fortune must indeed
be great when I fee him elevated
above every other man in the
world, without one stain upon his
charader—without ever having
been accused of irfolence in bis
behaviour to foreign powers, or
with want of firmnefs in resenting
ian injury received from foreign
powers. Genet, in a most unwise
and improper manner, infultcdthat
1 great man. He disregarded the
| i n sult—he insisted that he- should
[ be recalled —he is recalled, and
i America is still at peace-, and by
such a mode we might have con
tinued at peace, if we had pursued
! such a mode of conduct equally
wife with that of America.”
THE order of the day brought
on the difcuflion of the crimes of
theßrftifti Government; Butteau
said, that the Society had strangely
mistaken the character of the En»
glifh people, by supposing that
they were virtuous and friends
of freedom. He observed, that
they hadJlUppreciated the Englifb
Government, which, by its very
nature, leaned on mean and felfifh
views of merchants and ■ trades
• people, and was unjust and immor
al in all its operations. He rep
resented Pitt as a monster in wick
edness, as the enemy of all man
kind, as a Minister endowed with
a fufficient portion of malicious
cunning to confine within a narrow
circle of gross errors a nation,
which had been fuppOfed to be
enlightened, but was now despoil
ed of all energy and vigour.
SITTING OF THE JACOBINS,
Jan.it.
FRANCE.
He proceeded to accuse the
British Government of having bri
bed and bought those patriots,
who, though good Revolutionists
before* had now afeended the fcaf
fold to expiate their crimes. He
charged it with a boundlels avidity
which carried it into such wild
extravagancies, as would disgrace
the whole nation, if a whole nation .
could be answerable for the imb^l
cility and madness of its leaders.
“ There are in every country,^
continued Butteau, “ some intre
pid Sans Culottes, who want only
to be roused by the sublime Hight
of a deep felt sense of freedom.—
Able pens must inftrud: them how
much the existence of tyrants de
grades ^mankind. The totering
credit of the British Government
rtfts merely on iome remains of
ancient prejudices. hs vices,
which have ever been increasing
since the beginning of this century,
are recorded in the archieves of
every country. The manufa&o*
ries of Great Britain are now left
without adivity, and the work men
without resources. The merch
ants as well as the whole people,
deceived by its mercantile opera*
cions, and Machiavelian plans,
unwillingly bear the yoke, which
opprefies them. If we choose to a
vail ourselves of the present cir*
cumftances, a few pens and a lit
tle ink wilt be fufficient to con
vince that nation, which is good-
I natured enough to think itfelf free
that it really groans under the
iron-yoke of the rhoft perfidious
despotism. But should reason not
triumph over torpid minds, what
can prevent 100 000 brave Sans
Culottes from joining their breth
ren in England, in order to over
throw the whole coalition of ty
rants ? The English people can
hardly believe themselves repre
sented by Lords, who daily betfay
their interests, nor proteded by
men of fortune, who never felt
the pangs of misery.”
La Chevardiere was of opinion,'
that the present moment, when by
Pitt’s command the most ztalous
I Members of the British Convention
in Scotland were lingering
I geons, was the-fitteft tit^e to un-
I deceive the people of Great
ain, and to show them that their
constitution wanted a reforming
hand, and was on the point of be
ing totally destroyed by their au
dacious and tyrannical Govern
ment# “ This/’ fays he “ is the
I best means to consolidate the Re-
I volution in England.
Collot d’Herbois represented
[Pitt’s conscience as a volcano,
[vomiting forth all kind of crimes*
I He quoted afaftage from RofTeau,*
I where the Engtith are said to be fe-
I rocious EgotiftS, and to' have no
I feeling butforrheir hoifes. He de*
[claimed against the right of hun
hibg, of which the English were
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