The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-12-22
POLITICAL vIEw.
LOOK YOUR ENEMY FULL IN THE FACE

clamation of his Britannia majesty. of the 18th
October last.
Efforts have been making by the British agents
for some years i'll this country to wean the Ameri-
mind from the principles OF the revolution of
l776, and the great principles Of neutrality of $780,
which were in fact set up by the nations of Eu-
rope on two accounts.
TO rescue pacific nations from the evils of war
And to put check on the power of Britain
which under the barbarian idea OF supcr,ort, OF
force, compelled at different times every nation of
Europe to pay that kind of homage to her faT
which the tyrant OF Swisserlaiid wished to cause
the SWISS to pay to thar.
What with the corruption of courters at differ
ent courts-ard The actual operation Of naval en-
Nrprizcs, though Britain has been reduced to the
necessity of cyouchig, she has, by never actually
abandoning rs a permanent obligation, eontrived
u revive and re-assert all the various professions
upon which her abuses and the grievances of other
nations have been erected.
She crouched in 1850 30 Russia.
She crouched TO the Danes in the case OF the
frigate Freya, only few years ago.
And even to Sweden, she in some measure
crouched about tire same period.
In all those cases, she however did not abandon
the pretension, but agreed TO oy5ear the oberGti-
en- OF the power which she asserted The right to
exercise
The northern powers attempted in 1900 to re-
new the principles of 1850 because notwith.
standing the professions and concessions, the pro-
misses and even the treaties--Great Britain always
found some shutting P-rtext under which she VIC.
lated treaties, revoked GoEcsssionS, broke her en-
gagenlerits, and belicd all her professions
Ims was the real cause of the renewed coaiiti-
on of neutral powers and that coalition the Br
dsh Cabinet very soon saw, would if carried into
execution, produce the same consequences as she
experienced IN l779 and 17S0-she must crouch
and to avert this scheme of policy and corrup.
ton and assassination, nlexarnpled in the annals
of the world, was devised
The Danes and Swedes had formed between
themselves contract in March, 1894, the princi.
es OF which were ncutl@d and in relation 10 ea c
other defensive against any power that should Vi
ol ate their neutfality.-n this honest and liberal
ompact, they declare that treaties existing with
any power, shall lie faithfully fulfilled; that no
right shall be claimed or asserted adverse to the
law OF nations or the rights of war and peace
and they agreed to furnish each A squadron of
san OF the line, for the protection of their com
mcrcc and flag.
The Baltic WIS declared to be closed arains,
the armed ships of every nation, because no bel.
'Igercnt nation on the Baltic WAS then at war and
edlcts were published on the 23d December, 1900
contorinabie to these principles, by Sweden and
Denmark.
But III order that subject which bears on the
present state OF our own affairs. should be more
fully understood shall 30 beyond the limited
sketch we proposed on sitting down and take
the matter more IN detail.
This union of Sweden and Denmark was nro.
.iuced, by repeated effoits made to involve them
in the-war. Austria and Prussia had in April.
1892, sought to involve them both m the coalition,
bat the wisdom of the celebrated Becnstcif de.
feated the design
In 1898 the court of Russia was induced to in.
innate to Sweden and Denmark, desire to sun.
port the measure which Great Britain had under
taken, that OF placing the whole COST Of France
and It's dependencies under ablockade by procla.
nation.
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our own history, which, though extCl,ed bv many
at that time, are destined to meet more severe,
censure in history
The Danish minister Bernstorfr, who saw not
only the ruin of the pacific people of Denmark,
out The temporary suspension of all neutral tladt.
resisted WIN tempered dignity and Russia be-
ing bound byvarious treaties with Denmark, Weld
ed TO the arguments of the Danish sage
When Great Britain entered into the war, the
neutral powers were assured, that the course
Whch she meant to pursue, was conformablc to
the rights OF neutrais and an explicit confidence
was reposed IN assurances that were unsolicited
and unexpected. But the momentsry adyanto o.s
gained by tire coalesced powers, in the begin
ming soon changed the tone and conduct of Great
Britain; and in July, 17o3 the British court ca,Is
ed to be presented to hat OF Copenhagen. a me-
moral, the object of which, was In persuodc
Denmark, that the war then existing, was not Ike
any other war in word, the rights of kings. the
throne, and the altar, were to be maintained, and
JacobinlSm, and atheism were to he put out of the
pale or civilization and among other thinCs
Denmark was informed that she carried IN her
ships, great quantity of grain from the Vist,,l,
and elsewhere, which it was necessary In reru'
late, so that France by the want of food for fhc
laeouring classes, should be induced to revcIt a.
ganst their rulers This memorial was sustain-
ed by another, presented by that very Pruss;an
baronCoitz, VINO, two years afterwards, signed
the treaty of Basic.
The court of Denmark replied, and protested
against the new law attempted to be set up and
with dignity and franl,hess, that put sophistrv
TO the blush, maintained the rights of neutral;
nothing was conceded through fear, nor cvaded
by subtlcty and it must be confessed that tn,
stand made by Denmark 1T that time, cast shame
upon the mean ard servilc concessions of the A
merican treaty Of the next year, which abandon
ed not only the ground of 1880, bue suffered the
principle of conraband to be extended to articles
unknown before that time and subjected even
provisions To the same law, by continuance which
aggravated the dishonor by being Indirect To
those concessions must be attributed all the evils
that America has since experienced Had the
stand been then made upon the ground of the re-
volution of 1776 and tho neutrality of 1880. a..
should not be molested afterwards nor obliped IN
prepare Tor warat this day. The sacrifices made
then by temporisNg policy, accelerated by the
corruption OF members of Tie legislature, and bv
the artificial Glamour and terror raised b,, U,j,;i