The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-07-11


villages, were devoted to the Aames-asd the
humble cottage, not lefs than the edifice of
wealth, was involved in The general ruin. Yet
through all thefr tuferngs and thefe periis, NOT
an iDglorions fentimcnt was permitted To eEape
America. However defrable peace might oe,
only fate and honourabe peace could bc &C
Cepted. To have bartered the dignity at our
country for individual fafety, to have trs6ok ed
away her national rights for domeftic eafs, 10
have given up one iota of her independence for
the reforation of any rerfonal qualifications,
was unworthy Of the hardy patrio,fm of the
age, and would have doomed to infamy, the
man who could have propofed it.
Even that icx, which fcems formed 10 fwcet-
en- the hercer paf1ions, and to fotten the more
rugged manners of man which feems bea cal
cuated 10 embefh, to adorn, to humaniZe the
world; which Thinks from danger, and per-
fuades by gentleneis partook of the general
firmnefe, and participated in the general fuiftr-
ing. They exhibited patient contentment
and perevering reioution, which would have
named into courage, men, intim;dated by the
dangers of the conflict, and terminated thofe
who were worn out by. a long courfe of indivi-
dual facrihces. They relinquifhed every per-
fonal ornament without fish, and knew not
that they became more lovely by doing 70.
They yielded without a murmur every luxury
| to which they had been accuitomed, and ira
yelled with gay and fp,ightly fteps along the
toilfome path which conducted America TO in
dependence.
While the American army, furrounded with
difficulties almoa infuperable, maintained, with
unthaken fidelity and unconquerablc courage,
| the arduous conflict in which their country was
engaged, the finews of war were cut, the funds
OF the nation gave way; and it was confidently
believed by thofe, who founded their calcula.
| tons on the ordinary character of man, that
| troops, half famifhed, half naked, and unpaid,
| would at length withdraw their fupnort from
caule, in defending which 70 many ills were to
be encountered. But theie calculators eftima.
ted by wrong ftandard, the principles and
motives of thofe from whom this conduct was
expected. An exalted love of country, high
fenie OF national dignity, an enthufaftic devo-
tion to national independence, had induced
them to atiume the military character; and 40
tolls, no iufferings, no dangers, could induce
them to lay it down, till their Object was OBJ
tanned.
Brave and diinterefted patriots Never fl,all
your iervices be forgotten! A grateful country
will recolleet them, and will rejoice to honour
hertelf by beftowing her honors upon you.
AT the head of this band of heroes, we be-
hold Chief marked out by heaven as the favi.
our OF his country. Endowed with every qua.
| lily of mind and body, which could fit him for
|
of his country were placed in his hands; and
he exhibited, in h'uations the mott difficult and
the mott refpophbe, thofe rare virtues and IA
| lents, which the occalion mott emincDtlv re.
CURED. EnterpriZing without ralhnefs, firm
without teverity, perfevering without obftina.
cy; in, him, courage and caution were 70 han.
PLY blended that neither could obtain the az.
cendancy, but each appeared to rule as the
public intereft required. The firmnefs of his
mind diluted Itieit over his countenance and
when he preiented himielf to his admirine fol.
diers they ready were to believe, in contradict.
on totheir own fenfes, thatifome great advantage,
was at haHd. View lin, with an army reduced
by battle, by diieafe, or miftakeu policy, to 2
mere handful, and even in this ituation he was
formidable. Ills mind, inftead of bewailnp
misfortune, was employed in the means of re.
pairing it, and of turning to the beft account
all the means he yet poleffed. With fuch =
leauer, America could not be vanquifhed. With
fuch leader, the path to liberty and indepen.
dencc, might be intricate, but was certain.
I Who can take this fhort review of our hiftorv
without fentiments of the met glowing ADM.
ration, for the FACES who concerted, and the
heroes who executed the political wonderwork
of our revolution? Where isthe bofom tina,
does not burn with noble ambition to emulate
the glory of our fathers? MY fellow-citizens
the events which have lately taken place. are
calculated to revive in the bofom, of us all tbofe
feelings of bold and energetic patrotifm, which
made US a nation and drew to this fide of the
Atlantic the eyes of an aitonifhed and ada iripe
world. On an location fuch as this, all diver.
fity OF political opinion flhould be, and hope
will be, loa in one great, one universal refoiu.
ton, to iuPport our government or be buried in
its ruins. When the trump of war is found
Cd ia Ctr COATS, aud The caunon OF an enc.
my reyerberates along our flores let us no,
flop to enquire with diplomatic precifion, into
the caufss of the conteit; bur, with inltinetive
patriotiim, hafen to repei the 6rft attack upon
our country. At the cry to arms, the citizens
of America, numerous as the fand upon their
| more, and hardy as the oaks of their forefts
!haIl rufh from the mountains and the plains
and wave the triumphant eagle, once bathed in
the beh blood of their adverfaries. Let u,
then, my fcllow-ci!izens, with the infpiration,
as well as in the language of that glorious in.
ltrument which fri anerted our independence,
pledge mutually to each ether, and in defence
OF our common couHtry, our lives, our fortunes,
and our facred honor.
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