The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-05-01
GRAND NATIONAL JUBILEE.

May, centuries will have elapfed fnee the FORE
fathers Of Virginia. and may be fad the founders
oil North America landed the peuinfu,a of James
Town. It is impofibe to contemplate this event
without feelings of and iublrnity. Nothing
In any ancient nory fufnihes any parallel at to
the humility and the grandeur of this incident we
read OF conIuerors leading their heufands and Of
thouands, to tae fack Of cities, and the devalation
OF continents, and by the pretended rights of conque
exirpating or enaaving their inhabitants; we read
with horror Of the d.aru6ive progrefs Of Pizarro
and Cortez and the nhuman (, Items of civil and &C.
slelialeal policy by which millions of Innocent hui
man beings perihed in tor:utes and agones at the
thrine OF bgotry and avarice every page is filed
with the fucceisful ambition Of kings and the una.
~ailing and mPotent ilruggles of iuf.rng humanity
every where vice trumphs, virtue is di!countenanced
or fioms folitary aa bearing the features
Of honor, or the ffamp of Independence appears-if
by fome generous effort by iome fudden eoneuon,
we fee people Ring upon their oppreflors and eab
iihng form OF government that promdes greater
Happiness and ecurty, find It heeting the hafh,
whole ihort and iuddeu light renders the gleom
awful and portentous.-The mind is fick with
viewing thol. fcenes Of blood, this picture Of human
calamity and turns away with ddgua repofe itfef
on this grand and coniolatory event. handful Of
hardy adventures forming the advanced guard Of
the ditrefed the pereeuted the virtuous, the brave,
the independent of all the nations ef the old world,
sommt themelves in irail barques to the track
lcfs and objectionable deeps of the Atlantic they de-
hberat.ly f6ego the comforts, the Refreshments, the
iuxures OF eirlzed life they tear themieves from
the endearns Genes OF their childhood the tender
ties OF affection and kindred animated by the prt
tf generous adventures, they prepare themieves
encounter the danger of unknown Teas, OF he bowling
wilderness, and Of favages, more terrible than tenn
feas wild BEATS. With what tranIport mua they
not have contemplated, after their long and hazard
Gus voyage, the magnificent bay of Cheiepeak, wood
ed to its margin, and embolomng them in its vaA
smpitheatre of forsll We follow them to the mouth
OF the maleitic Po~hatan, name Gnce ungratefully
ShanYed in compliment to a $.danf and fy,anf. The
-Aborg'nes dl.nguilhsd by their black frat hair,
Their red colour, armed with bow and arrow and
mshawk, and arrayed in the fantafc coifuns of ma
tuTe, fellow them upon banks, their faces imprei
led with mute and iavage aftopiihmenti become at
Length more familiar we fee them converting by fgns,
the original language Of nature, and their awe at
length yielding to .eurioGty, approaching them in
their canoes, AID bartering their rude productions
We mark the beginning of confidence and trace the
features OF character amongf this nguar people, dill
more ierkng than their dreis or complexion. Every
moment the icene becomes more buiy, more intere9-
Tag and dramatic, and iseyery where highly diver
hhsd with characters and incidents.
We contemplate the venerable figure of the great
fachem Pewhatan, elevated upon throne relembling
bed;tead and clad in the kin OF racoon the fin
gular ambition at Nematranow the fagaoity, the
dinu atom, the courage, the perseverance of Opec-
honkanough, like another Hannibal, devoted to the
deitrui,on OF the enemies Of his country. We mark
the gentle Prt Of Pocahontas, dropping the balm of
her tenderness upon the wounds and ditrees Of our
foreathsrs and ike guardian prit interpreting her
fell between them and every danger. The gallant
and Roman Smiths ftrkirg figure in the groupe,
and his agency is intimately connected with the do
nouenent but who iha be able to follow the cour(e
Of theie itrs'ng events. Yielding at length labor,
10 ndpitry, to intelligence to patriotin, the wilder
hsI Itgi1 TO bsDan rs The ree! The haunts OF wild
beats become the habtatous OF men, and inGead of
their howings mingled with the yels of avages, are
now heard the expeditions law, the dfcuiion Of fc-
ence, and the eloquence of enatss; cities rife as it
were by magic; the arts and licences encouraged
by an unretrained inquiry, extend widely their en-
Pre, whilh liberty, the frft and grea,eit of human
bengs, like the key tone to arch, gives fecuri,y
and Psrnianeney to thoe great and manifold blengs
What icene is here for gratitude, for graduation
and triumph compared with location like this,
how ink the anniversaries Of Europe The childilh
and wicked incidents that gave birth their iubi-
bees, s their eitivas for which lie deums and hoian-
are flung by wicked natkery and pronitution of
religion even the fsiiivals of the ancents having
ther re III more uielul and honorable PRINCIPLES
the SAturnal the oil mpc, the lhnlian the Circeuan
games, what are they when put in competition with
this iublne incident which is but fsebly illnarated
By the ark Of Noah and the bark of Deueaiop VIVA,
are they to the rOral faryofon Of zVori the growth
OF nat"ns aud their eCEiedrrations under the au.,-
ces oil liberty and phioiOphy yet this day 70 auipi-
eious and rventIu this day the roads Of Virq
mia Mould be tfodden by the feet of pigrss to VIII
the ton,bs of their fathers to celebrate the era oG
ther national sxinsnee, when inagnations attending
the cradle, marking the frt faint hrugeIes of colo
vial infancy, would at every ep dieover new oeca-
don Tor grSitade to that great Being who had des-
tined them to occupy 70 diiiinguiihed cation a.
nongtt the Nations OF the earth this day is forgot.
ten anieit the paltry and irguietudes of the
world. IL Is not 70 in NJ England--the fagacity Of
thar Intelligent people would permit them to o.
nlit an "ocaon calculated to produce luch .HeIs u,
OH the mnds aud principles Of their defendants they
knew that it would afford /t5 oil to tie La1ze Of their
pstriotllm, aud accordingly the OF their debarka
ton at plymouth, iscesbrated by annual feAivals :
hut ~ the ancient dominion Of Virginia, which NAV
be called the principal fountain Of american pouua
t'Ou, not the 1ghtef notice is taken of an event in
hieh the whole world is intereted. IL slime ar
lengtk to put end to this ihameu apathy; the re-
voIuton ola lecond century Gnce :he event affords an
opportunity itRcirutiy lpendid and it is to be hoped
THAT II will be eagerly embraced by every friend 20
the antiquities, the literature, the Independence at
lesi oil Virginia.
n Faymey e|bs aaeiesf doz,iqioo
s. The people of the lower countries in part;.
eular, from the mouth Of the Jan1es.K iver 10 the
halls, including all its tributary RTeanis have abund
ant iaeitesby carriage, Of arriving atthe the.
afre OF action.
Itis propofed, that committees be appointed in
Norfolk, Willasfburg, Richmond and Peterftrro
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