The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-28

rentsries: rcfpeacd as tort Of aeted territory by
the ferr.h ambition, raifed, like its mountains
beyond the rcgic. of the lorrs which ragged around
on every eide the only warlike people that never
fent forth armies to dturb their neighbours the
Government that ever accumulated creatures with
out impolng taxes; innocent creature, unframed
BY the tears Of the poor. the iuvoate patrncIy Of
the commonwealth, which a,.eaed the virtue of
long ferries OF magtrates, but which at length caught
the eye of the poier and became the fat occaion of
| their ruin Gentemen, the deftsuGion of fuch a
country, It's caufe 70 Innocent and its fortune 80 la
" mentable !" made deep imprefion the people
OF England Twill ak my learned friend, If we had
then been at peace with the French Republic, whe-
,her mutt have been lent fpe0ators Of the fouleR
crimes that blotted the OF humanity whe-
Their we null, like towards and naves have reprefed
the compaiion and Indignation with which tina, hor-
rible fcene of tyranny had filled hearts? Let me
fuppofe Gentlemen, that Aiors R>airs; who has diff
played in iii, the Gmplic,y ,magnanitni,y, and
Pety OF ancient heroes had, after his glorious frug
gle, honoured this kingdom by chuGng it his re-
fuge; that, after performing prodigies cf valour
the head of his handful of heroic peaiants the field
OF Morgarten, where his auceitNr, the Larainnr0sar
Ring, had five hundred years before, defeated the
tirit oppreiors OF Switzerland, he had feleaed this
country be his redepce as the cholen abode Of Ii
berty as the ancient and nviolable aylum of the OPP
preffed would my learned friend have had the bold
nefs to have faid this hero, That he n,ut hide his
tears" (he ihed by hero the ruins of his
country y left they might provoke the recruitment
OF RezpbeN or Rabiraf that he muif fmother the
| forrow and anger with which heart was loaded;
that he muf breathe his murmurs low, leit they
might be overheard by the oppreGors !" Would
this have been the language of my learned friend
\ know that it would not. know, that by fuch fup-
petition, have done wrong to his honorable feel
| ings, to his houeR Engfh heart | am fure that he
! knows as well as do, that nation which hould
thus receive the oppreaed of other countries, would
be preparing its own neck for the yoke He knows
the ilavsry which luch nation would delerve, and
mutt fpeedily incur. He knows, that fympathy with
the nnmerited fuerngs of others, and sifintereGed
anger againf their opprefors, are, if may fpeak,
! the matters which appointed by Providence to
teach usIertitue in the defence ofsur ownrghts that
ieiihneis is daardly principle, which betrays its
charge ai'd flies from Its polt and that thofe only
can defend themfslves with va!our, who are .nn,a-
ted by the moral appreciation with which they can
turvey their fentiments ds others, who are Ell
nobied in their eyes by cenfcionlnefs that they
are fighting for juiiee well nteret confconi-
nefs which feel but thole who have felt for
the wrongs OF their brethren. Tbefe the fenti-
| ments which my learned friend would have felt. He
would have told the hero " Your confidence is no,
deceived: this is Till tina, England, of which the
hiitory may, perhaps, have contributed fill
your heart with the heroifm of liberty Every o.
thrr country of Europe crouching under the bloc
|" dy tyrants who defroyed your country. We are
unchanged; itill the fame people which re-
ceived with open arms the victims OF the tyranny of
Philip IT, and Louis XIV. We fhall not exercife
|" a cowardly and candeftine humanity Here we
are no, 70 daaardly to rob You of your grsatef
eonfolation. Here, protected by free, brave,
and high minded people, you may give vent to
your Indignation you May proclaim tie crimes
of your tyrants you may devote them to the ex-
ecration of mankind there is fill one fpot upon
4" earth in which they adhered, without being
{" dreaded !"