The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-26

not by IA sndU or single hartv, but by ever,
Imam, who felt tor the liberties of his country
and was grateful for the resource, which
France had supplied tous. The Cause wa.
comm on--the effect, the sentirtiehts, which
ieinspired. we're alseconmoa. There wasnc
man during those days. who was p<ssump-
tuous enough 10 whisper snspc6oA, tina,
there was single American, so lost to
the dignity Of his Country, as 10 tlesire to re
duce her to the same colonial relations to
France as we had borse to Great Britain
| NO, This insinuation WAS reserved for the
lpresent times. and for British Emissar,
Nor was France ever Ambitious enough to
| form such project. The greatess height to
which tie cupidity Vt her monarol, ever as
cended, was TO attempt TO traminel the u.
States IN the use OF the fisheries. and ih the
navigation OF the Mississippi. in the forma
ton of the treaty ofPeace with Great Bri =.
tain This intrigue evidently proved, ;tha.
we had previously reposed too ,nucl, faith
] IN the disinterested integrity of the court of
lVersailles-but the hrmness and sagacity of
| our commissioners, Messrs Franklin, Adams
and Jay easily defeated all their tnachinati
ons -. -, -. .,.:.
These sentiments towards France were
from their very nature des,inad to a short
and precarious existence. The motives BY
which the Court ofNersai!les mad been &C.
tuated, were to be ctnvassed, as sosn as the
Immediate sense Of the benefits of their as
sistance had expired. fneir ;ntrigues to
bias the terms OF the treaty of peaee were
to be known and despised. Resites, new
aud Important cares were to succeed the tur-
moils. and sympa,hes of war The people
| of the L. States were to be called on to Sc
cure, by q free Constitutions those liberties
which their Revolution had acquired. All
| those duties. WHICH are rcciprocally and i'm
partially dueito all foreign powers, were to
! be appreciated and respected, " Enemies
| in war, in peace Fuends," was to be adopted
as the principal motto Of our government -
| With the tomahawsz, we should ltave buried
all our resentments against Great Britain,
If she had not been continually opening the
lcicatriziDg wounds of CIV country--and they
| were continually bleeding afresh. :.
| - Ere these causes however had heen pro-
ductive OF their natural effect, q new and
most astonishing event burst forth upon the
world. France-,hat-ver France, whose
treasures, aud troops had been used to adj
vance the progress of the America RevoJ
luton--waS destined taundergo Revolution
OF her own Some OF those very Frenchmen,
who had fought on the plains os America,
were seen guiding the steps If Reformation
| IN their own country. The same generous
motives, which had actuated the Republi
Cans ot America, were seen to animate the
feeforners Of the Eastern Hemisphere. = In
both, Liberty was the boon at stake
The saaie hatred of oppression-the same
antipathy to Kings and despo's-the same
disposition to render the people the source
or sovereign pewer--the same anxiety to
ditiuse the blessings ofliberty aud light.
were seen to inspire the Brissots and Can
dcicets of France, as had pres iouslv inspired
the FraRkiins, the WaShingtons and the JEFF
Persons OF this new world - -.
But the Car OF Revolution in France wa.
seon to be arrested by the fears or a ambition
OF neishbouring despots. The right of every
| country TO regulate its own internal Concerns
was condemned by he. Princes of Europe.
Those blood hounds,iwho were ,aeshed with
the partition OF Poland, were anxious TO en-
ploy their blood 'us1s upon the rich carCase
OF regenerated France. The atrocious plot
was sealed by the treaties of pilnitz aud -os
Pavia-Austria, Prussia and Spain, united
their rapacious 1rocps-and the subsidies
OF Britain were collected to-" urge on. the
wedge OF war. The. frontiers of France
were invaded nv the Dukecf Bruns wick 6 his
myrmidons--H.'r coasts were lined by Bril-
fish cruzers, who in the most profound con
tempt OF the rights of neutrais, were guilty
| OF the miserable abs,irdjty OF attempting to
stafve a whcle people into subjection. = i.t
| Is 1t necessary to expatiate upon the SEN
timents ct the American psopNe, as they con
tempiated these evens? On their sympathy
with the cause of France. because they be
leved 1t to be the cause of Liberty; their
detestation of the wa.s OF the Princes, be-
cause they appeared TO be the wars of Des-
pots and oppressofs> Every undetermined
citizen of the u. S. felt what vas due 20 the
occasion. The public meetings Of Ihe people
bore ample testimony to the disinterested
ness of their attachment to the cause of
freedom. Woe be to that mans discerument
who will ascrbe the diffusion of these feel
inss to the secret agency of F repch Infu-
| ence! Who will dare To ascribe such an
Influence to Washington, to the Senate of
the U. 5 in go, - the present Chief Justc e
OF the u. S.--or even 10 Timothy Pickering
himself in the years 'e4l-Yet have each of
these borne witness TO the purity Of those
feelings, which were then entertained for
! France:
"Above ALL" says general Washington
on receiving the French colours from the
hands of Mr.. Adet on the LIST Jan 1895, "the
French Revolution has produced the deepest
solicitade as well IS the highest admiration.
To call yoar nation brave, were topranounce
but common praise Wonderful people /,
ages to come viii read with astonislment the
history OF your brilliant exploits
The Senate of the u ). re- echoed the same
sentiments
The Chief Justice Of the u 5. in the sth
Vol. Of Washirgton's Life, declares tha.
" the friends of tre admpistration"(the Fe
! deral party) - bowev decided might be
their determination to support their own go