The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-10-11

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One eftbe L'a6Tae5 IF the PrifA Treaty.
You ieem to have forgotten," fays Barlow,
IN MS lat Letter to the People of the United
States, " that different nations, as well as diEe-
rent animals, have different means of defence
with which nature and circumstances have ref
PectIvely endowed them. England is defend
ed almolt entirely by a maritime force, without
ueem'ng 1t necc'!ary TO fortfy her towns, Or
keep ON foot any comfortable army bv IanI
Au!tra depends wholly upon her land trooos
and her Notifications. The Pope, thou n f,r
many ages the mof powerful monarch in I'm.
rope, depended on no phylical force by land or
Tea, but altogether on moral force, or church
pohcy. Row 1t either of the latter powers had
laid to England: lay aide your navy it is die
nohouraoie 10 make ufe of wooden walls and
ioat'hg batteries: you ought to allow your
enemy 10 iand IN your country when he pleafes,
ana then truit to your bayonet or your PRAYER
book for defence-is if probable that Fnsi,nd
would nave been perfuaded by that argument.
to let tire to her Hips? The defence of the IT..
nted states lay IN the peculiar nature of their
commerce. You had an invincib!e bulwark in
Tue aebf5 you were conftantly owing and renew
ing with all the nations that had il in their now
CT 10 menace your repofe. But the firt nation
that takes 1T in her head 10 infult Won. comes
and tells you that your mode of defence ;s dill.
honourable, that you mutt not ufe if. but give
1t up by compact. And although it was more
'ure, more peaceable, more natural and Iefs ex.
pen'iVe' IMAM any othert that could be imagined,
you immediately relign it into her hands"
Ease IN PoNr.-Though Britifh armed
seieiS mould blockade our harbours and inter
cept even our dire9 trade /; though they fhould
rican ci:izenfhip, and impress tboufanJs If oIr
conntrymen /; though their cruizers in ALI d.
reetlons mould capture orr yei1els laden with
the colonial produce of France, in oppoi.ion
10 inc law OF nations and their own rxn,rfs adj
Inhhons In 1901; this natural armonr of orr
hation would be Of no avail. The federal adj
mnIitf atom has voluntarily flrrendered the ex-
ercie az tins privilege, and has 70 far enfeebled
our natural and pacific powers of reliance. Tn
that Fdhdora-box of American politics. the Ri
tiiiI treaty, this igbominious f,crfce is d;re1I,
comprehended. BY the 10th article OF tina; trea.
~ Whlch ny iubiequent one is claiIed among
enoie ~,'lIn are intended to be permanent, it is
expressly ifipuated that:
Neither the debfs due from individuals of
t a o"e nation to individuals Of the other, nor
mares, nor monies which they NAV have IN ~ .
public funds, or in the pubic or private b,rto
'naIl ever, IN any event of war or yot;ou7I dr
fevf7eeJ, be If7HeRred or co.Gfaied; il heinz
nyuit ard lmpolitic that debts and engaqements
contracted and made byindiyiduals, having con-
hdence IN each other and in their reCpc6iive oo-
Vernments, fbouId ever be deRroyed or impair.
cd by national authority, on account of national
differences and dicontcnts."
The charge of inuitice and impolicv here
lpoken OF IN the treaty, are ably and triumphant
y retuted, in the fame letter of Mr.. Barlow.
from which we have made The preceding quo.
taiIon.--in fact, this celebrated treaty feems "a
have involved the compleatef and moIt vantop
iurender OF neutral rights, which ever was made
by an independent and agricultural nation. 'Cbe
party to whom we owe its exifence. apnear r.
have been proud, that they had it in their DOW.
sr to iacrtice almo0 every principle of net,,ra.
MY, which their republican opponents Rad e.
lea!ouily Imported. 1t was not little ,riur,h.
that Mr.. Jay could Ihow to the world how,
completely he defpfed the favourite ue,fures
81 Jeferfon aud Madfon although thefe mca-
lures would have iccured the mOn important
ntersts OF the Baton. Nor was Il 4 bad Aroke
ct pohcy, that by fash ufe of the treaty-m,k
ING power which they at tia, tirne direcled from
t'r'r influence In IL cabinet aud j., the f.u,te.
t"r| could recosntc 1ad ADOPT Certain pt;,,ci-