The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-09-19

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How were theie hopes batH-d; and thief. ar
dent anticpstiohs disappointed The French
revolution has apparently terminated /; but in
what! In the establishment of a republic; ia
the opening OF new fources of independence:
ut elevated daring and high purfuit of virtue
Far from IT: They fee all their towering hopes
trampled under the hcof of an ul,irper. They
Zee the blood and treafure oe Frenchmen ex-
pended IN vain, or almoit upon nothing. They
lee Bonaparte in the place of Bourbon &
they even fee the quefton debated, whether il
was not the friends of the Bourbons via, uni
ted with the friends of the revolution, in pl1c-
ing Bonaparte their throne Whit this
ingiouous ipecfaele is thus fparkng before
their eyes, what encoura cement is there TOR
the friends OF reform in other countries to exc
cute their honorable fchemes? Will they not
rather fold their arms in apathy; and filfren-
der themie'ves TO the Cream OF ant;guated abu-
les. than iabour to ften the torrent:
But hecaute it i5 fact, that the Republicans
were attached to the French revolution, when
1t bid fair To be ennenty uiefnl, is il therefore
certain that our attachment has accompanied
1t through all its horrors and up 80 It's fatal
catastrophe five loved it besaufe If prornij-
ca liberty, Is 1t MOI rnof probable that we dii-
like the prefent organization OF France be-
cahte it ia the mof mortal hane TO liberty
But II this 05R',ad reafoning be Inefficient 20
convInce the federal party, let Us appeal 10
jadS whole concluGous are inJifputab,e?
Where is the proof ofthis ftrvile devotion
OF the republican party? Twelve years ago we
unqualified with the French nation. we re-
Jd'ced in their tTiumphs, becaufe We believed
that t5eir eauie was our caufe and the caute
OF the whole human race. When they bat1ed,
III the ileid, that mouitrous conFederacy cf mo-
MARGINS, whofe rea! object WAS the partition
and plumber of France, our hearts beat in uni
| ion with theirs. When they conquered al Lo-
a and Jemappe soe rejoiced. But when the
battle OF AuiterlilZ was decided, where were,
the fgnas Of participated exutation where
were our public fcitvais fpread where were
the exhiliratihg toaits, that would be pledged
IN honour of their fucceis? Can this fact be
difputed?
en- years ago, we contracted together the
pictures of French emancipation and Britifh
iervitudc--the elaitic tpring of the one, with
the torpid degsreracy o. the other the Sc Mar
feiiies Hymn" with SO God fave the King -
whatever ieemed to promiie the reign of hon.
our ana liberty in the one, with the actual
,.'s" vi nrai''e's anu IuoIectIoa IN the other.
But comparions are changed with the times.
Now it is onr boat to contra!t the ferocious
deipotiim of Bonaparte with the peaceful ad-
mn'itraiou of Jefferfon the 1avi.iI fpirit Of
trenchinen with our own independent genius
Is not this too fact.
When during the Ian congrefs, were difplay-
ed the moG forcibie Descriptions OF French de.
eradation when Mr. John Randolph exhibit
ted me french Emperour, under almot every
poiiibte trai' which marked the tyrant and tht.
villain (; did finele advocate appcar TO de-, IA
him TO deny, nay even to extsnuate, t.e
charges which were 10 iedu!ouGy heaped uco
hi throne?
But Why appealto fjicIi .t;,l7s as theEe, when
the il.Ehteft ietercoari> with the republicans Sc
nough to flow that they are not the (laviih adj.
herents of Bonaparte? Hear them mourning
over the fate of France, and defcanting upon
his own ufurpations in t5qt country;
oympath,'1or with The fate Vi Holland, Of
Switzerland and even of Genoa
Contracting the mild virtues of J-tfrrron
"ith his military defootf-n :
Can any one, who hears thefe centuries, dare
to believe that thoCe who employ them are the
mInions ofthe French government
Let us now revert tothe eicqa1t .evt which
graces our efiay. Ii charges our "demag3gue
rulers" not merely with flaviih attachment to
the French for that is but flight charge in
comparison 70 the ore irG"~ate,i bit i ever,
lnhnuates that " our denagogue rulers" misbt
perhaps be reconciled to be protects under
Bonapare ;" in other orders, that they would
ooihhiy prefer tnbjection under Bonaparte. TO
A patriotic Attachment for national indepen
ience. Such isthe fun total of this accnCati.
On; and 70 how many is it extended /?
10 "our denqgogue rulers" and of courfs. to
the majority of congrefs who are part of thai
body, and to at leaf 162-l76ths of the Deonle
who fuQport then. 4 mott liberal commit
ment indeed on the patriotifn Of our rulers
But what mua this federal fcribbIer tb;nt
OF the common prudence of the republican
party! Or will ne even deny them that hum.
bic virtue? They mui have loG fight of all
their interefts, ere they could heiitate 6nelc
moment, about reliance to Bonaosrie
They NUT have forgotten the fate of every
country, over which he has hitherto Rre,ched
his tceptre. They NUT have obliterated all
thoi- common calculations of prudence, which
Cnrran 10 happily recalled to the memory of
lr1hmen in the following nrains
DO you think he would feel any k;nd-be,-..d
iymPahy for us? Let Us snfver bv ag.jog.-yvb,t
iympathy does he feel for Frenchmsn, whom, he IS
ready by houiands IN bury in the ocean in the h,r
barou5 gambling Of s'yid ambition VIVA, rym-
patty then could bind him tous? He il nor o,r
eountrYman --tie feeae Of our birth and orr child
hood Is net entelred to his heart by the reAefio,
that II was s'o the icene Of his What then corld
we upToie the Object Of hi, viit or the conCs,ue,c
oil his iucceis? Can be 70 foolilh as NOT IN C
ne woh!d uie US as haves, while he held ms and
thaf' when ne grew weary, which he would Toon he
come Of iuch worthless AMI prgcarious poGePion he
would carry US to market in forle treaty os pssee
barter u for Tome Variable conceAjop. ami c,r
render us't exPiate, BY punih nent and d,gra.
oasion' the advantage we had given him by our fol-