The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-08-16
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TO THE PEOPLE or rnE UNITED STATE.
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NO. III.


The PRINCIPLE of retaliation, as ground
! OF beliigerent pretension and deportmant is
| one which it is in our dutv firmly to examine
and deliberately to consider. It's great deli
cacy Slvast Importance may forbid a private
Iwell-intcnded individual 10 pronounce on the
nature and extent of The rights, winch an in
ljured, endangered or provoked belligerent
may practically enjoy or coa!ourably claim,
ON this serious and inconvenient principle: but
the same objections donut occur asainst argti-
ment or demonstration, calculated toquash all
professions 10 refaiiate onthe part OF any 60
vernment from WHICH we suffer. Hence it has
been that fair and weighty considerations, APP
,plying negatively to the British claims on The
ground u 'retaiiatio2, have been explicitly in
PRODUCED into these papers.
Alter an honest and candid recollection of
lthe rise and progress OF neutral spoliations,
we are unable to call to mind a singular proc
tlamation, order of council, or other act o. the
British government FROM 1871 to 1906, in
which they for a moment scvIp, IN substance
or in words the slightest pretensiou to retail
liatc On France or the neutral states, for any
ailcdged original abuses or pcrversions OF neu-
trial trade, navigation or seamen, until the at
tempt OF the court OF London TO procure an
admission of that nature IN their own additl-
1 on TO treaty, otherwise mutual, in Becem-
Der 1896 This fact is the more strong, be-
cause gen. Hamilton, iii his publication OF
{" .BIpegicus," while I've was exercising the
functions Of president over federal admi-
Illustration in 1875, and col. Pickering, then
| secretarvsof state, in a public official report
advanced the uHfouhded ideas that England
| had JoHotvF& Erance in all her violations OF
neutral commerce, whereby those eminent
citizens hut intotie5aolth # Brian all the
pretensions Of q power entitled TO retaliate
! Triiich she had neUcr heretofore claimed
And here, Eritdin, we will ingeniously con-
fess i'll your favor, that these and other chill
dren Of America, adopted aud native, while
hSaored by our high trusts and fed by OH
ltfeaSures, have done much. indeed (ahd 9ffe1
haVe done so much to mislead you into TIE
understandable, irregular and PerHicious acts
and u confirm you III a course which iia'
Threatened rain to us, and now suspenas fear
full dangers overyour beautiful & noble coun-
TRY. But we return to our print: Englaud
sharp es,ingenious, and thus gpadcd by Ame.
,ficailsr as She h.ts been, ne verSnce mentioned
The doctrine OF retaiiatons till the last O
| Dec. 1906, in tile proposed riderto the trea-
~ Of Monroe and Pinkney, Auckland & Hol-
| land
Let usihow examine the opppsite side
What has heen the 1anel..ct 8. France, Six ii
always, eveA in 1922 trsis the ground of {
/ power assgressed on, osIe;ihef much and much
| cnsSaitxcixA I5yeth6sc AZ, ~ ss3Dnss Sbcl&vo
| ed. befol. sfAessQ;te sgitsl 81 p;yafid her right
aud duty To retafate 81 tic ffanse Towns
the perversions Of her resources, which aeU
| tral Britain committed in January, 1885,
She took measures Of regular indemnity from
/ England or the FIRST Of February, 1898, BY Al
open declaration of war. In EIay, 1875
France issued her FIRST general order, touch
ing neutral trade, and though it was tD.savl
! hfr brad, she aVowed the right, duty an,
nccessity OF retaliation, or Of using Me re
sources Of neutrais 10 Sa7,e her eounfs'g, Z
lfgeve7e FngiaHd from Asing those neatfa
resources, 20 ruin her couhtru Yet Franc
did not add, tie fcnGhy Of Confacaifoa r
Neutral properly as England does; but, a
igrecd to pay for the neutral propeity take
lin retaliation Of English abuses. In The sam
Esprit, grounded upon the same defeusiy
grounds, avowing the same principles, it vii
I've found that the legislative proceedings, ex
eCutive acts, official communications. & soun
dest publications Of Franc from '92 iDclu
lsivc, to the memorable DEGREES of Berlin
Milan and Bayonne, all avow the right, dut
and necessity of retaliation. The govern
rentof France, incoumoded, injured, iustl
provoked and deeply endangered by ilegiti
mate British peiverSions oftne vast supplies
purchases, ships aud IDen Of peutrals to he
own gain and power aud TO tie de8irAcfo
If Ms krench--Fraucc we say, under thes
circumstances. conterd, for the right, dut
and necessity To- retaliste; and unl9appi,vf f.
tbc neatrals, snc atleng.h adds tllat ruinol