The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-11-08

OR Car0,ina's prouicst dass!
Yes, Fellow Citizens, let US hail this rs Proud
tay for Carolina's sons !! We here See the tri-
nnph ofrcason over prejudice, OF love o. country
Owe: egoGsm, oil perseverance, over apathy; we
here see, with eNu,taton, the noble result OF in.
d,yjduai enthusiasm, result, which eSalts orr
national pride, and makes us strong in the conf.
Ierce of our own native mca,s. We harc low,
Known that we possess, in the bosom OF cur soft,
acknowledgements; wenow know and feel,
inst we have, in our own busams, spirit OF pat
r!otsm 10 call forth these resources, and 10 make
hem instrumental to the security of orr rights x
70 the averaging of our wrongs. The shuttle and
TIC loom, operating on the products of vuur fields
and YOUR fiocss, VIII, in this century, erc,ncIate
y;,u from commercial tiraldom, rs the operations
al your arscnals and ioundcries delivered YOU. i'm
the lss,, from political slavery. Your patriot
souls, swelling with this great Thought, will,
what multiplied ana rapturous emotions must you
have beheld the laying this Corner Stone. on
Which will soon arise, within the limits OF your
behaved city, n superb edice, Which her citizens
will daily contemplate with INCREASING delight, as
the Perennial fountain from which will steadily
How those essential supplies, now derived with
difficulty and under dsgraceful circumstances
from uptriendly rivals and from alien industry
Let the insidious fears of false or suspicious
friends be realised let sort!iJ avlrice insin,,ate
the failure other dividends; let sneering hvpoc-
ricy propagate her doubts and appreheusions
let 1t be .atiir'Lted that our embryo ESSAYS will
he Unattended with remuherstng profits still
Will patriotism obtain its sweet re wards. II I've
receive SO palt;y dividends in OF. pockets, we
shall receive tcn thousand times more precious
c'ldendS IN our hearts, the heart felt Cratiiica
ton of knowing, that We aye at length truly in.
dependent or foreign nations, and that knowledge
Is at lan9th completely Brought homc Ia their
ruicrs.-aerc on Ashley's cheerful banks, on this
luclciousiy selected Scitc no less saluliros than
far, viii patriotism the stucture where do
Hesuc industry, enhancing the value of dur ma
tive products by converting them into man,ii,c-
tlred supplied, viii be the exhaustless source of
our comforts and conrencnces, our perpetual
security against foreign dependence. Here
WIN be found Il never failing ASYLUM for the
trendicss Or?hsn and the bereft Widow, the
distribution Of labor and the improvements
IN machinery happily combining to call into pro-
nelclc employment the tender services of those
VINO have Just sprung from the cradle as we'll as
OF those who are lettering to the grave thus
training up the little innnocents to carly and
Wholesome habits ot honest industry, and sooth-
ing the wrinkled front OF decripitude with the
smiles of competency and protection. Here too
WIN be found an everlasting refuge for those un.
iortunates OF other chimes, expatriated, with their
useful talents, by the iron hand of unrelentinp
despousm, or the intolerable pressure oftaxation
and hunger, and waited by the signs Of fellow
misery, to seek liberty and bread on these happy
unanimously and disnterestedy proifered YOUR
service6 to watch over and rear to maturity this
promising Institution, you have this ciay planted
rich germ, which, under your fostering hand.
VIII socn bud forth and grow up into a stately
Tree, shedding into the l;r, of your happy coun
try the abundant fruits of domestic comfort and
national wealth-Thc tablet of gratitude, insc,ib.
ell With your names, and enshrined within that
consecrated stone, is sufficient pledge OF YOUR
present zeal, sufficient incentive to your future
eAe'uons The infants lispmg tongue, and tie
tremnlous voice of age shall hereafter unite. in
choral strains Of gttetul homage to you their pat
rons and benefactors, and in invoking the bles
sings OF Heaven on your useful labors may their
pious incense be acceptable at the throne of grace
and may 1T be the Will of Providence 10 render
those labors commensurate with our most san
guine expectations
Let the wrangling nations of Europe boast
OF their Nelson's and their Massenas we will
cherish, we will exat the wcll-ea,ned fame of
our GHsfIF, Our Hunybhreys, and those valuable
citizens, the BeGforGS of America, who study nor
the arts OF dcsoiation, but of preservation and I'M
provement who direct their mental energies mo-,
TO the discovery Of instruments of human des,ruc-
uOn, Out TO the extension and ameliora,ion ofthoa.
Indigenous materials, the precious and never.
ceaslng supply OF our national looms. And when
our distin%nishcd bographer, the faithful recor-
uer o. the lliustrlous deeds Of cotempcraneous
r. 49, NiNiuS'itiy tracing inc progress of do
mestc rna'iutactures, shall transmit with ann,ause
10 future generations the names OF those Carol;n;
ans, who have deserved well OF their countr,, h.
VIII conse crate copious, and a splendid paGe tn
the memory Of The founders of the go,nr'g5,,,
fecf0ry, and wreatbe civic crown for the bro,,
OF the patriotic SHEcUr.
But while we thus foster with deliqbt the Mill
and amiabie virtues of peace, and devoutlv i'm.
pore continuance Other blessings, hitherto 50
h"Pphy preserved to us by discerning and tenn.
pera'e poiicy, let not the naughty soyereie-ns Of
Europe misnterpfeting the dictates of wisdom
ior coSe OF Pusiiianimty, calculate on tame &
servlle submission to their arrogant t,rctens;ons
or their ambitious designs.
mo American republicans pre-cniinen,Iy res
Pect the useful and innocent labors of the plough
shn tc loom, they Have not forgotten to point the
rune ana to weld the sword Should aiv inso.
tent invader, doubling their prowess. violate our
PeaceIoi abode, and assail the threshold of our
saict'ar,, iiberty's last refuge, he will find an
ron-bound coast bristting with defensive and IN.
d'8nant rage, he will find our hardy republicans
i'Sns, IKE their brave ancestors, in al the males
~ OF their strength, and he and his vile mvrm
aons VIII be soon swept away from the soil they
,Feh">f-Citizens were any thing wanting 10
ADD to tie interest Of this ceremony. and IN in.
n'rne your breasts with more than usual ardor
ior ti;@ success Of dis infant establishment T
"o.lu invite, would rouse your attention to the
iheIloFaoie spot-to the classic ground, which
yoH now tread--l would direct your ewes to those
s ,tI monuments, the halIowed remains of