The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-28
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very. They are capable OF no mutinous, and even
OF no bold and manly political fentimen,s. And If
this Ode protected to paint their Opinions, it would
be moa unfaiihful paure. But is otherwife with
thofe who have been the actors and leaders in the
!cene of blood. 1t is osherwife with the numerous
agents of the moi indefa,gabe. iearchng, nnultform
and oniprelent tyranny that exit 1, which per-
vaded every cais of focsty, which had miniers and
victims in every village in France.
Some OF them, indeed the bafeh OF the race the
Sophis, the Rhetors, the Poet-iaureats of murder
who were cruel only From, cowardice, and calculating
ielhthnefs, perfectly willing transfer their venai
pens to any government that does not dildain their
infamous fupport. Thefe men, republicans from fer
Witty, who publiihed rhetorical panegyrcs malta
ere, and who reduced plumber to a iyaem of ethics,
are as ready to preach iavery as anarchy. But the
more daring had amoit faid, the more Respectable
ruhans, cannoe 70 eaGy bend their heads under the
yoke. Thsfe fierce pirts have not LOFT "t6e
gneyable 7riH, tie Psdy Of revenge, immortal bate"
They leave the luxuries OF fervtude the mean and
dattardly hypocrites to the Bslias and Mammons of
the internal faction. They Purfue their old end Of
tyranny under their old pretext Of liberty The re-
collection of their unbounded power renders every in
ferior condition rkiome aud vapid and their former
atrocities form il may 70 lpeak fort of moral deiti-
ny which irrehlibly mpels them to the preparation
of new crimes. They have no place left for peni-
nitence on earth they labour under the mof awful
proicription OF opinion that pronounced u
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bridge by which they could into the fociety
lot men. Awakened from their dreams Of democrat
cy, the noiie fubded that deafened their the
voice OF humanity, the Aim fallen from their eyes
which hid from them the blacknes of their own
deeds haunted by the memory of their inexpiable
guilt, condemned daily look the faces of thofe
whom their hand made widows and orphans; they
are goaded and fcourged by thefe real fures, and
hurried into the tunult Of crimes which will
drown the cries OF ren,orfe they be too deprav-
Cd tor remorie, will fence the curfes of mankind.
iyrannical pswer is their only refuge from the iui
vengeance CT their fellow creatures murder is their
only means OF uiurping power. They have tafte,
no occupation, no purfuit, but power and blood. II
their hands are tied, they NUT leaf have the uxu-
Try OF mirderous projects. They have drank too
deeply OF human blood relinGuh their cauni-
bal appetite.
Such 4 faction exits in France It is numerous {;
rs powerful! and i, has principle of fidelity itrong-
er than any that ever held together fociety. They
are banded together by depar of forgiveness by the
unanimous deteftation of mankind. They are now
contained by fevere and fern government. But
they IT'LL mediate the renewal of niurrefioR and
msiiacre, and they are prepared to the WORT
and mott atroeious of their crimes; that crime again
poiterity and againif human itfef that crime
OF which the late generations of mankind may feel
the fatal coniequeaces; the crime Of degrading and
Protnuting the facred name efliberty.
l mutt own that however paradoxical i, may ap-
pear, ihould almoR think not worfe, but more
nieanly OF them if it otherwife. mutt then
think them deititute of that--which l will not call
courage becaufe that the name of a virtue-but of
that ieroeous energy which alone refcues ruans from
contempt If they defitute of that which is the
herom OF murderers, they would be the lowei as
well as the nioit abonlinable Of beings.
It's impoilble to conceive any thing more delpica-
BILE than wretches who, after he6torng ard BULLYING
over their meek and bIameleis fovereigu, and his
defenceles family, whom they kept 70 long in
| dungeon trembling for their exifence; whom they
put to death by How torture of three years; alter
playing the republican. and the tyranncides to wo-
men and children d; become the fupple and fawning
| ilaves OF the hrit government that knows how to
WELD the feourge with afirm hand.
have uied the word republican becaufe i, is the
name by which this aroeous faction defcribe. itfef
The aiiumption OF that name is of their crimes
| They are no more republicans than royalties they
are the common enemies Of all human fociety God
forbid that by the ufe of that word, euld be fnp-
poied to refeca the members of thofe refpeSable
republican communities which did exit in Europe be-
| fore the French revolution. That revolution has
Pared many monarches, but it has fpared no repub-
iic within the iPhere of its deRruStve energy, One
republic only now exits in the world republic of
Engih blood, which originally con,pofed of re-
publican focisties, under the protection of monar-
| ehy, which had therefore great and perilous
change in their internal contribution to effe9 and of
which ipeak it with pleafure and pride), the inha-
bitants, even in the sonvuions of mot deplorable
ieParation, dplayed the humanity a. well as valour,
which, trnR, ma! FAY they inherited from their
forefathers.
! Nor do 1mean by the ufe of the word " republi-
can, to confound this execrabe faction with all thoie
who, IN the liberty OF private peculation may pre-
Ter arepubican form of government. ] own, that
alter much rejection, am no. able to conceive an
error more grofs than tina, of thofe who believe in
the poibiity of erecting republic in any of the old
monarehieai countries Of Europe, who believe that in
iueh countries an elective fupreme magiftraey can
produce any thing blu, iueceion of fern tyrannies
and bloody civil wars. It'll afuppoGton which is be-
he'd by all experience, and which Jerays the grsatelf
ignorance of the FRI principles of the contribution of
ioeisty. 1t is an which has fafe appearance
OF fueriority over vulgar prejudice; it is therefore
too apt to be attended with the NOR criminal rah-
neis and preumption, and too eafy to be nfamed in
TO the mot immoral and ant-focial fanaticiinl Blu,
as long as II remains mere quefcen, error, it i,
| the proper iubject Of moral diiapprobation.
II then, Gentlemen, iuch faction, falfcly calling
tfef republican, exits in France let us confder yhe-
Their this ode ipeak' their entments, Eecribes their
character, agrees with their views Trying by the
principle have tated, think you will have no diff
Guilty in concluding, that il ia agreeable to the general
plan OF this publication, give hinorical and fat
rical view Of the Bruufes and brutes of the republic
OF heie who ailumed and diigraced the name Of Bt-
tusf q who, under that name, fat as Judges in their
mock tribunals with poIs in their girdles to antie-
pate the office Of the eXecutoner thoe unfortunate
men whom they treated rebels, for reiitanee to
Roberfperre and Ccuthon.