The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-07-08

~ "S"oiu, tSuoW CiuxcnS, tnc mignty COME
qnences. Firft. among thefe we NUT humble,
a fertile and exteniive territory refcued from
that abominable policy, which climates the poC
teilions and even lives of millions as they fiib.
terve only to capricious fntafies of proiigate
individuals The efablilhment of thefe great
political axioms, every deviation from which is
a departure from reafon and from right, and
mutt terminate in abfurditv and thoufand ills
that fovereignty is the legitimate pofeIion of
communities only, never was, never can be
rightfully inheritable-that forms of govern
ment mutt claim i'm nutablity from the will of
the governed not from speculative COUPON
derance of parts nor from prepofterous, in
fu'tng family preteniions-that allegiance is
not an indiilolubIe obligation-that promotion
to the administration of laws, never elevates be-
yond their co @rcion, nor vets the power of diff.
pc Ntatior. We have efcaped the contentious
of afpirine potentates, ef,apea the contagion of
European politics, have opened an afylum for
the oppreffed of other clmes and under the
cheri'hing influence ofan unexampled conltitu-
ton, have rifen with fghtIefs rapidly in po-
pulatlon, in arts, in opulence and in power.
Britain no longer makes inltrunents of Ameri-
cans IN protecting her vile iniqutous projects.
Feeble and totterng to diffolution we have A.
handoned her, famed and deforned in age.
with the blood of Hibernians, of Columbians, of
mvriads whole crime was to inhaLit foil in
which the ruby fDarkled, or to be unbleft with
interior force. We have abandoned her tif1ue
OF artificial cutorns, inexolicable except a. thew
FORM network to enfure the homsIv com
forts OF honef 'ndulry, for finple & rational
Juripruience, which emanating fronts people
can have popular good alone for its Object. (6)
Privileges & iifinetions etabfhed on the wrong
and abafe ment of the many, are no longer
deemed ndifl,enGble components in every we'll
organized contribution. Ribbons and ftars make
not the incentives of American patriotifn.
Honor, juitice and public fpirt, are iofulted
with the traffic or laugh at the lure flch un-
meaning gewgaws. That principle which an.
nnally fills this room, the confecrated princi
pie OF electoral fuffrage, is the indefatirable
nerve OF virtuous exsrtion the imparting cauf.
OF dignity and importance to the lowlet fon of
our country. Election here is not Knocked by
an auction of horoughs," mr. legislative
counc'is converted 70 "public courts for regif-
ter'ng royal edicts." Ours the admirable fyf-
tenn d,farming wealth of all that rendered if
dasgerous' and reducing bv frequent and re-
guiar reverfion to a level with honef worth,
men who had othervife been exalted to noxi.
Gus elevation. Disabilities are no longer infe-
parable from creeds, nor religious advancement
procured by the diherifon of brethren; IN
hut to the abolition of tefts, and acts of confor
NIFTY have fucceeded liberal and expanded fen
timents of divine beni6cenoe, to harmonize.
not TO exacerbate the intercourfe of humanity.
lnmenie as the ocean which divides them. the
difference of character on the eanern and wee
tern iections of the globe! Their, nation ac-
counts Its protperity the caIami.ies of nation.
and politicians reckon their addrefs bv Glccen.
tni duphcitv, or by fashionable i1fracfions of
conventions the mott folemn. Here, numerous
ana ieParate communicable unite in power
tnl and harmonious fraternity, and by conjoint
exer,'ons or individual ability operate general
good. Throwing off the trammels in which :,
blind policy had confined her, has commerce
ohoten her feat among US, and feems to have a.
doPted as peculiarly her own the fons of United
America. Secure in the produS OF hin efE,r,s
the adventurous mariner launches his bark
with iPirlt on the deep and the peaceful a.
grlculturalif, gratefully acknowledged h;s
country's firfe benefa6tor, bids plenty wave
IN golden triumph over our fields. Numerous
population with identity of language and FREE
dom OF lnvetigstion, are ranked by theorifs (sA
among the chie!eft incentives to fcientiGc re-
iearch. In ancient and modern Europe or A.
ia, III no one country have all thefe republics
exlneo ana the human mind has been .nploy-
ea IN fahricatIng unlntelligible theologies, or in
weaving An ufelefs metaphysics, Tins are I'VE
frequ nty altonihed at finding in the hiGorv
OF thoie countries, an union of groTeft iehorance
IN elementary government, with a polemic ftlb-
tilty to which few at prefent attain. What
may we not promife ourfeIves from the arnnIi.
tude OF our country, the rapid multiplication of
her citizens, and the genius of her conGituti.
on As foon fhlll we be feen fighting for the
orthodoxy of Zoro4fer or Confucins. &c for
that OF Luther or Calvin : our progrefs fhall NOT
be arreited by contentious with pretended lite
ra'i TOR iuperiortyin deciphering what the Va
nifty OF WORTHLESS mortals may have etched.
Medals and Maufoles may divert the attention
OF iaves from their fallen wretched G,uation.
bur here ihail man be the fubjecf of enquiry.
and his every relation compreheHded, whether
in the natural or focal fate.
Whit exulting in the angular felicity of his
country, not to that country would the gene.
rous and philanthropic American reftriet f,ch
hyperion bleflings. eating his eyes around the
globe he will look forward to an univerfal iubi-
lee and fondly hope that his fathers have
founded glorious call to dilIolve the coward
fouls or defpots, and route their grooming bro.
ken llaves, to vengeance, liberty and bappinefs.
May we got, fellow citizens, ftl contemplate a
period, when the dwarfih inf snRcance of juye
diUino claims, now frcure and concealed in the
mantle of ignorance and fupertition, fhall p.
very where uncovered, find impunity in con-
tempt when man ihah nobly dare TO ak
whence this immcufurable difance between
my fellow and myfelf or where the evidence
OF that fiat intrenching him with divine 6nA;.
mony! . may we not anticipate dav on
which, where now at the feet of reu,orcsi. e,