The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1808-06-10

Uie OF employment. The American eInbar-
SO is scarcely ever mentioned. any where
and. IN engage, that, out Of fifteen millions
OF people, in England, Ireland, and Scotland,
there are not more than half a million, who,
at tkis moment, know that there is an en-
bargoin America. Mr.. Roscoe, indeed, and
MS rabble Of merchants and car men at Lii
verpool, to the number of about three tlo.-
SAID, it seems, have met, & petitioncd about
Peace introducing at the end OF long string
OF unmeaning fiummery about {, attachment
to ms MaJesty's person and family, an eX-
preston relating to America, that bespeaks
the mind of mere childhood.
What chiefly intended to. notice, was
Mr.. hosCoc's for he is said to have drawn
up the pctition) fine notion about 6 the hes
ofcoma,on origin, which SO nearly connect
us with America. Now, either this was in
tended as an argument to induce the King
TO adopt a more conciliatory conduct towards
America, or it must be regarded as mere
eXpletive, as words thrown in for the mere
purpose of making the sentence what Mr..
Roscoe regarded suitably long. If the for
mer, wcu!d ask Mr. Roscoe whether he be
informed of any one instance, of any one ex-
preston or act. whereby the Americans have
testified tow ards England. their respect for
those " ties of common, origin" which he
pretends now connect the tsyo countries?
hose who are connected by flies of common
origin, generally discover love for each
other by mutual acts ofkindness, which they
do not, in the same way and degree, shew
towards the rest of the world. None of these
acts has America ever been able to bring
A~rself to adopt with regard to England
one has, on the contrary, constantly shewn
a Partially to the enemies of England
The misfortunes of England have always
been subject of openly expressed joy
from one end of her States 20 the other; and
the good fortune of England has been with
her subject ct sorrow, not less openly and
generally expressed. Nay, such is the idea
which the Americans have OF those tender
ties of common origin, of which the sage MIR
Roscoe speaks, that they, in order to obl:te-.
!, rate even the memory of that origin, have
devised for themselves 1Ute(ar-y saint of
the savage race, named, from God knows
| what cause, SAINT TAMMANY !, And
| they keep the anniversary of this saint, in the
Isame manner that the Irish and Scotch keep
the anniversaries OF St. Patrick, and st. An
drew. and that the English. when abroad,
keep that of St. George. at this festival
lthey repeat Odes iNpraise OF themselves fan
of their own making) they sing songs through
thcir nose they smoke large twists OF to-
bacco, after the fashicn OF the savages; and
they get as drum. as ever St. Tammany OF.
after, you see al tiIeirswo or three hundred
newspapers filled with a detail of the pro-
itee6inSs oi tie oiiy-sti'ickcn wretches, and
You are sure to find, that at each meeting
there has been one or more curses unani-
nously bestowed upon England. And vet,
MIR. Roscoe would fain persuade the King.
that in his conduct towards America, he
ought to bear in mind, g the ties of common
origin which connect the two countries -
Verify, this is a very silly politician, though
he has written'a most elegant and most ex-
celient poem.
The truth is, that the revolution of Anne
rlca was injurious to its people in various
ways; but, ill no way so much as i'll that of de-
prIving them OF an ancestry. Man not only
locks toward, NOT o!.ly desires 70 live IN his
children or IL his fame, and both if possible
but he looks back, and desires to have lived
IN his torcfathers; he desires to have a ia
Their, or 4 grandfather, or great grandfa-
tner or whose character or whose deeds. or
whose existence ut least, he can speak of !;
not having either, he desires q country of
long standing, to which he can say he belongs
or from which he can say lie is descended.
vi al the natural proPenst!es of the human
mind no one appears to be more general than
veheration forancient things. This is a feel
ing, OF which the Americans have been de-
privcd. They arc nation without forefa hers,
without renoWn and without history. They
have no monument Of antiquity, to which to
point; no memorial OF past events; nothing
round which to rally no name, fame, or cha
racter to preserve This, think, has been
the great cause of the total want Of principle
which every one says, has been creeping in
upon them ever since the commencement Of
the revolution. They feel the deprivation of
which we have been speaking, and, in their
invention Of tutelary saint, and tie order
Of Cincinnati, they have discovered their de-
sire to supply the want &c what they have
lost. But these are miserable inventions
1t is vile mockery to sec fraudulent shop
keeper, who took up arms for the purpose Of
resisting the first demands of his creditors,
assuming the name OF an old Roman, who,
after having saved his country in wars return
ed again to the plough. These tricks donot
even satisfy the Americans themselves
They hate England, because she has all her
greatness the same as she had before the re-
yolution-They hate III less degree, the
old nations OF the world. They rejoice at re-
voluton and destruction, wherever it takes
place. IL their wish were accomplished,
there would be left in existence no establish
meht of more than twenty years standing !;
the pride Of ANCESTRY, the example Of noble
deeds, the records ct genius, of wisdom and
of virtue, would all be annihilated The
cause of their malice towards England lies,
then, very deep. 1t is not to be removed ;
and we have notiiing but our power to pro-