The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-12-19
Eatraet.f from tie Memoirs If I'M. SAMr-
SOW, an United IiiShman, lately fatiished
In Ne7v- York.
UNION OF IRELAND WIN ENGLAND,
IRISHNTE.W HIT,H FRESHMEN.

IRISIfN1EN HITH IRIS1ltJE.M
After so many ages Of civil war and car
nage, how lovely to the ear Sounds the hallow-
cd name ofUNIoN; but not that union which
binds the slave to his master, the sufferer to
his tormentor, the wretch to his oppressor.
Not that union formed BY parliament, the
scourge and cxecration of their own country
the scorn and derision of the minister who
bought them like slaves, and sneeringly pre-
tend to have bought their country with them.
Not that union made BY those "ives and for
tunes ms7r," who had pledged themselves
so saeredty to God and to their country, BY
tests, resolutions and oaths, to resist eyeru
ias6tatfoa GvhassoeUer in the constitution Of
their country, and with those declarations,
in their mouths, had ruthlessly dragged their
tortured coontrymen to the scaifold and the
gibbet.
Think it not, then, Englishmen, that be-
cause our dwellings are consumed by fire, and
our bodies lacerated with instruments of tor
ture, that we are therefore united to vou
1t is not because we haze been in the damp
and cherries ADVISES Of the vaulted duuge-
ons, or worn out joyless seasons in the filthy
holds of .1rison-st;lia and tenders, that we are
united to you.
Itisn not because insult and ignominy have
dehled the purity Of our habitations, and tina.
scarcely virtuous family but has Its below
ed victim to deplcre, that we should be united
TO YOU.
IT is not because you have corrupted our
parliament,* bribed our aristocrscy, and
dragooned our people, that we are united to
you.
1T is not because YOU have lavished the trea-
sures, mercilessly wrung from the hands OF
suffering wretchedness, with wanton prodi-
gality upon panders- hsngmen and informers,
that we are united to you.
1t is not because YOU have trafhcked with the
word of God, and treacherously iniamed the
ignorant to bigotry, and thebigot to atrccity
seeking to excite amongst us every unkind
and wicked passion Of the soul, that we are
now united to you.
1t is not because sitting inquiry, refusing
evidence, you mock us with the ghostly forms
of murdered law, and massacre us in def
ance of its very forms, that we are united to
you,
1t is not because nsurping every organ Of
the public voice, you have, through host Of
hirelings, filled the universe with injurious II
baldry, covering YOUR own crueltcs and faith
breakings with the villains argument of Ne
cessity, or the prostituted name Of Justice.
that we are united to you
1t is not because, like the devoted victims
Of auto Il fe, you have blackened and DIST
CURED US, lestsymPathy or compassion should
any where console us exaggerated whate-
ever vices we may have, and which we owe
alone to your corrupting influence, and SCOT
fed at the virtues that adorn US, that we are
united to you.
It is not because every man, most honored
and beloved among US, has been rained and
inundated and every one NEST odous a.
mong us, raised to power and Office, that we
arc united to you.
Believe me those arts, but too successful
heretofore. will not long suffice The blight
ing shade which Won had cast uponus, is hour
Iy dissipating. The manifest conviction of
crimes, at which human nature shudders,
hangs over your own heads You are not
now at war with us alone, but with the uni
verse. Our cause already brightens through
the clouds of calumny and terror. The vii-
tIous and the generous Of your own country
are daily undeceived, and will, with cordiali-
ty, atone for the wrongs they have often ig-
norantly, and innocently done US. FOREIGN
nations have felt the pcTiidy of your alliance
the impotence of your protection--the sting
of your pride Arao2gst them already does
Anr suffering cause find favor And though
wedo not lift hand against you, the work
ipgs of humanity, no Ion ger biaesed nor per-
ccrtcd, will succour the unfortunate and
the moral force of ot'inion, Stronger than
hosts N arraor, viii mine yoir cruel empire.
and palsy your misussd power. Those Of us,
who, to ga n your favor, have betrayed their
country, will sink into contempt with the
weird, with ycu, and with themselves.
The trappinGs and mock honors with which
you hate invested them, like splendid live
RIGS, VIII mark their seivilc state: nor shall
thc wages CT theft iniquities protect them
from due ineany. In vain, then, will you call
those, dear to the cause of virtue, and hon
ored IN their colIp.ry, traitorsi An inparti-
AZ generation will weigh us against each
ether. You viii be no longer our judges and
sceusers. Stripped Of those casual henors
End il-earned distinctions which had been
ours, had we not scorned to win them by cor
Iuption, we shall be measured with enc mea-
sure. Then will it be seen whore stature and
proportions are most gnodly--whose morals
are most pure--whose reason most enlighten-
etl--whose courage most true. If you be
foun.l then to EXCEL us, it will be in vice, and
not in virtve--in meanness, not in DIGNITY.
And no longer will the love o. country, which
in all chimes and ages has been honored as
the first Of virtues, be held crime in Irish
men alone.
The time may come, & may be nearathand,
when yol may find it necessary once AGAIN
10 call on Us to take up arms and fight your
battles.
Fer whom, for what should Irishn,en now
fghts Why should the fallen be proud,
Why should the slave he ioftier than his
state Against whom should he shake his
T. I'LL, L