The recorder. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1802-1803, 1803-04-02


no pardon. There is not country III
the world chat abounds with men Of
more honour and humanity than Ire
land but, in many parrs of that ttlanl,
Briti(h rapaciry and opprefion have
kept the natives in ftare of compafa
tive barbariifn. When they rcvclrcd,
a grear part of the in(urgents behaved
hardly better than The negroes OF St.
Domingo. As one iamplc Of rheir
conduit they broke into Jail, and
butchered an hundred priioners Of war.
This, and much more of the fame
kind, is 10 be found in the New Annual
Rcgitter, an impartial, autherric, and
ufeful publication" To all men Of
lenic it is plain that iuch people were
NOT fit for a ieparate and republican GO
vernment, and that, OF Two enormous.
evils, Bririfh supremacy was lels ter
rible than lrilh anarchy.
IL is true thar the 6rit coniu is taking
every flep in his power to confirm his
authority But this he is compelled TO
do for the fake of felf defence, as we'll
as fer The fake ofthe country, Wit inthe
Taft three years. he has done France
more fecviee than iIenry>t the fourth and
the duke OF Suity ever did in tx years,
or than any o1her perfon ever did her in
thirty. And for all this, the patriots Of
Peterlhurg with 10 get him mm,dsre44!
For lharnc, gentlemen You cannot
be ferrous The action itfelf would be
as uniuh and immoral, as the drinking
Of iuch toaIt is indecent and icanda-
lous. Ii might have fuired John Waits,
or D0ubleheaa, at war dance. But
it was unworthy OF any human being
above fheit level.
To any pcrion in the polieaion of his
iober fentes, it mutt be needless 10 cx-
pariare upon the indecency, the immo
raliry, and even impolicy of calulnnia-
ting, Of inlulting and of provoking the
firlt conlul. AS Bonaparrc is abour TO
become our eighbour, what was in irfelf
originally imprudenr and improper, be-
comes a chouiand rines more 70. The
Recorder IS the only new paper in Anne
RIGA, chat has ob]eetedto the vulgarprac
tice Of attacking his character and with
ing for his aEiaiIination. This title isthc
only point in which the writer's ofborh
parties agree. They alftln1e it, for the
fake OF perluadiDg che people that rfcv
are In igVs ggill5 A5eTty! What prodi-
gious patriots !! What profound poll
cy The federal printers do nor re-
feet that al The public creditors, that
all rhe mott ferrous and fubfantial ad-
hcrenrs of their party, hold the idea Of
fuch crime in the mott abiolute exc
Grafton. For whom do the national
creditors OF France, for whom does eve
ry man ofwealrh in that vaf empire, of
fer up his firft and laf prayers F.? AZ
furedly, it is for the frft conful, for
thatineltinable benefa6tor OF the repnb-
lie, who has enfured the execution of
the laws, and the tenure of property,
who has extracted light from darkness
and regularity from confufion; who
has reitored -fety to the idle, and bu-
finefs to ii. 1iligcnt; who gives credir
TO the compiling houfe, protection 10
the church, and victory to the field Of
battle.
And this is the man, Whole murder
is 70 loudly demanded by Sandy Nc
Rae, by George Hay, by DIR. Shore,
who was r1puJed tory during the re-
Voiutionary war, and by homebreakers
and letreriteaiers, by the fwsepings of
the jails Of Manchester and Calcutta.
The 6die-s at the Petersburg fefival
gave, as tfeir toal, g the man, whom
3" the laws cahnof reach, the dagger
g mRf," This maxim might have been
applied to John Adams. That vainef