The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-09-12

uttrious compatriots," let it be our duty aifo
to convince him, that the bolom of" ftrangers''
is not inieniible to his exalted merits. Let us
prove to him that Americans are not Indifferent
to virtue, from whatever foul it may emarate
whether it recevesi,s divine Inspirations in this
weitern hemiiphere, or whether it arifes, ex-
pands, and iheds its luitre upon fome more diff
tant region. Ii was an American maxim that
&c zvbere liberty Is, there is my country :" then
let us IN the FULL ipirt of this precept receive at
once with all the affections of fellow-country-
men an luxurious man who has fought 70 nobly
and triumphed 70 greatly in the holy caufe Of
freedom.
When he touches our flores, let us fay to him,
" True, this is not your native country. There
exits not the American female who can pour
her maternal benedietions upon your head, and
thank her fortune for having given birth to your
genius and patrotifin. 'T'is true we can point
out no mot among us, where your cradle has
rock to the repofe of infancy. Amongft
lie - yiits not that foil where your YOUTH
fi re wandered where YOU have inhal-
:. 81 or manly enterprise and disnihed
freedt Your name is not that of an Ameri-
can; here "exifts not perhaps Il Jingle
drop { r blood in the vens'' of one of our
citizen ut what of thefe artificial diftincti-
ons' lerifh free contribution and you
youricit the favourite advocate of
We admire genius and virtue and
to theie diftinguifhed life Of fervices has given
you pre-eminent claim. And even if we could
extend our regards to nothing but what contri-
buted to our own immediate interefts, even
then yourpretenlions to ourcon6dence & friend
fhip would fcafcely be fufceptible of doubt
When you were fighting for the freedom of
France, even then you were contendins in Tome
degree for the republican fytem OF our country
Such is the complicated Tifiue of the affairs of
men, who are connected by civilization and af-
tected by mutual example, that perhaps we
might venture to fay no trumphs accompanied
your progreis, of which we ALTO did not par
take: every new luftre which you added to
your own name, caft all additional beam upon
our own republican inifitutions. That France
Is not free, cannot be attributed to your mifcon-
duct; that ihe has become the nave of any o.
Their hero than yourfelf contributes your higheit
eulogium. Come then and let this be your
country. Here you will enjoy that indepen-
dence, which you have in vain attempted to con-
fer on your native land. You mutt wait the
cuftomary period of naturalization, before you
can acquire all our political rights but whatel
yer OF focal fympathy it is in our power to be-
flow we ihall not require tardy experience to
teach us that you ought to pofefs. If like Arii-
tides you come among us an Exile from your
native country; You ihal find that like him,
artificial boundaries"
1t was the obfertation Of Mirabeau in his me-
mortal to Frederic William ii. King of PruiIia,
on the day Of his accef1ion to the throne, that
Princes cannot too often recoeet that Engliih
America enjoins all governments to be iuft and
lage, IT governors do not Chooie to rule over de-
iarts." The remark may not be altogether ap-
plicable to nations which have never felt what it
is to be free but it is certainly true of inauv
man who having enjoyed the independence OF
a treemaRhas relapfed into the condition of a
iubject. fit is not picture of a PrufIia,i, GER
tainly it will apply with few notifications to
Tome of the modern Frenchmen.
When the edi6t of Nantz was revoked, in tbr
year 1885, the protefants were induced to fly
from France, and feel religious afylim in En-.
land, Holland and different parts OF Germany,
where they eftabliihed the fix mandatory. II
religious enthuiiafm will banifh man from his
country, fuIely the ardour of political freedom
will fometimeS produce the fame effect.
An nhabltant of France mutt either fibmt to
the tyranny of the prefent regime he mutt at
tempt its deftruetion or he mutt defert his
country. The man who is unable to endure or
overturn its prefent ufurpatioh, mutt feek fome
more fortunate afylum.
Moreau, it ISIS faid, has now fhewn them the
10y "NiOlo ONCdii example
luitrious hero, whom 70 many will be anxious to
initiate for various reafons, will invite every
year, and perhaps every month or day, new CO.
lonllts to our country.
viii this emigration tend to relax or tighten
the chains of French defpotifm? This is one
dueftion in relation to- them: There is another
relative to our own country. We fiall profit
by the ingenuity, the capital, & it is to be hoped
by the virtues of thefe emigrsnts fbould this
profpe6t induce tbs to abridge or extend the pc
Rod of naturalization
ERRATA in the Enquirer Of SEPTEMBER 8.
F;rf column, 10th line, of the Rainbow,
No. 4: for " immediate" read, iyyenediable.
Second do. 6sth line, for Z" who are immedi-
ately iHfrgRed," read, who acre Immediately
infereRed.
The author obferves few other typographi-
cal errors ; fuch as "bdOe a firnilar fate" in
fead of .Bare imilat fate, in the 2gth line Of
the Sd column; and, the omifiion of the word
delighted, in the nth line of the 1T column I;
an alteration of the word aeeeieyaiihe for deea-
mniafing, has been fuggelted, and meets with
his appreciation INTAKES of his own, in the
manuscript, and confequently not the fault of
the typographer, have aifo been obligingIy point
ed out to him by bis friends, which, however,
do not affect thu fenfe Of the panages when they
occur-fuch is, change of iexes in the imagi-
fary bei9g Death"-Miiton created him