The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-08

\ u no vision OF the tanCy-that U Is a Cred
tire OF real flesh and blood of most alarm
ing port and tremendous SIZE. We have
traced it in the identity of language and ST
,nilarity of our laws-in the ntert visited
relations of commerce-in the numbers of
| british natives. who swarm IN our tewns, and
Interfere with car atfairs--in the revoiati-
onary remnants Of I'orysm-n the diplo-
matte agents of tue British government-in
the voiaminous writer's, whom they have
pensioned, and the presses which they have
avowedly established amongst us--we
nave seen it in Cobbett and in Cullen, in
| Is ronson and IN Bond. I've have seen the
many headed Hydra in our institutions of
commerce aud ut our polls. in the very coat
which covers our nakedness and the night
! cap which bushes us to our repose.
We have asked for similar means, and
motives OF French Influence in the u. s.
but we have sought them i'm vain. We
! have not heard OF single Press, that has
been froUed to have been established bv
trance-no- single pensioued- writer
nor single Napoleon of Cod, tina, ha, been
used for purposes of corruption. We have
not seen swartns of Frenchmen in our streets
nor any possible inducement in the public
men, who now rule our councils, to sacrifice
their souls, and their country ior the benefit
OF France. Ii such motives do eXis., why are
they not exhibited Il such means have
been employed In any part OF the u. States,
why are they not dragged into the light.
1t seems almost ridiculous to enter into an
argumentative discussion of this subject
TO trace this phantom of British i,naginati-
on through all the forms which it has ASSN
mcd-to diasipate all those empty shadows
which have served from time 10 time az the
miserable fouDdatinns, OIL which were built
up this political machinery Of ELS and Wi
yards. What limits wouid ba set to this
task Every measure of the republican
party. for ears past. has been artfully ascri-
bed TO the same Imaginary phautom-until
those very men, who early began to employ
1t as mere Instrument of deceiving othe RS,
have, like other impostors, teTminatedttheir
lhaliucinauonb by deceiUing themsei re- INFO
belief of its reality.
Why call in this phantom of Federalism.
to explain Il single measure OF the Republican
party! 1t Is one of the maxims of the Poets
that Nee Deus INTEREST,", nisi dignns pindice
nodns, and the observation is certainly lust
as true OF the Did6oiuS. as it is of Deus.-It
| ID one Lord Bacon's maxims of hhiio sohhi
sing, that no "more causes are To be cal ed
III &c erflain phenomenon, than are true,
and sufficient 20 explain it.' But 'the Bri
| i party in this country" as Mr. Stephens
has styled them in the House of Commons,
are FAR from being correct logicians They
have ridicuied philosophy so much, that they
have violated one of its most sacred prncl-
Piles. The supposi'ion of the existence of
Frehch Influence, Is neither true in ITSELF
nor necessary to explain a single measure of
the republicans. Why call in the chtmera
tof French Influence, where he conduct of
that party inay be so readily explained by
actual and hoaora6ie causes
Ali the measures of the republicans, which
have been ascribed To the secret agency of
he liz 4.
ifhree solutions. Try all the visionary at
tempts OF the British party, to prove the
existence OF such influence amongst US; try
iall their arguments, by each of these tests,
ithd how readily will they dissipare into
smoke
l. Those who have traced the rise of
French influence, up as far as the Anne
rican Revolution, have obviously tory often
to ascribe the feelings, winch we then
had for France, and the Confidence when
some OF our Countrymen reposed Iii her-to
the aid which we had Just received from her
in seven years war for liberty:
Z. Or those who have traced it in the sen.
timents of the Republican party towards the
FreRch Revolution, have artiuily SUPPOSED
4 those sentImentsto exist al the present time
they have transferred al! the feelings,
which we had for France at the most auspi
cious periods OF her Revolution, when she
was strusBiingto liberty, To the desputism
which has now supervened i'll that country.
g. Or those, who pretend to trace it now in
the sentiments of the republican party, or
in the acts OF the last ad unistration, are
guilty of the folly of ascri5ing those steps
and sentiments to French Influence, which
we have been obliged to embrace as the
means of redress and preservation against
the multiplied wrongs of O.. Britain II hose
measures, which we have adopted as the
means OF resistance to British eucroach
ments, have first been art,uily Construed in
to.a hatred for Britain, and then intoa hyue
far France.
| We shall resume this subject in our next
and apply these principles to the series of
arguments, which have been used by the Fe
deralists to prove the existence of a French
party Ill this country, Arguments, they can
scarcely be called, which are no more than
the creatures OF Suspicion, or the instruments
OF Deception.
| The FEDERAL Gazette of Baltimore gives us the
rnly items, that we have received respecting The
| british minister, Ma. JAckson.--Accord,ng to
that paper, he was to have landed at Annapolis
| on the 4th Inst-diIec tons had been given by
| the President to the Sc rotary Df State, to re
pair Immediately to Wa hngtop, OH the arrival
OF the new Minister, TO receive 'him--t Mr.. /
| has no very important communications 10 make al
once, and Mr.. Smith can conveniently go ON win
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