The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-08-22

s'st iSsh was Il oau counsellor, and certainly
so II proved to Mr.. Amcs. For il totally broke
down thU "genu;ne Independence of spirit"
which, IN his speech, against Mr.. f'adison's re-
solutions in 1894, he called upon us 10 assert
1t was tins fear, which, ningling with ihe con-
tempt he felt for his own coun,rymen, drove his
imaglnationt to the British navy, rs the only hope
ct salvation to mankind from the Tsrtarus Of
France and democracy. In fixing the attention
OF the reader on these particular passages, to
winch shall continc this paper, wish him 20
indulge me with few remarks, which shall
make as short as possible, and leave them to his
own metlita,ions
FirH-Excessive terror is n sentiment as un-
worthy OF great statesman, it is unbecoming
IN man. As basis for po!iticsl system, 1t is
utterly incompatible with any pretension to indie
pendence.>>
SeconaG--A man may perhaps be allowed to
year, more for his children, than for himself;
nut ne oaghtto bring them up in the fear OF no
thing but OF God. To teach pusillaninity by rule,
is to make your children dastards, if they were
not born such. In Corneille's tragedy OF the Ho
rain, when the messenger informs the father that
two OF his sons had beenkiled and the third bad
ea, he breaks out, not into lamentations over the
dead, but into indignation against the fugitive sur
vivor; when asked what would he have had him
DO, one against three, his sweris--" he should
Rave died." Thisis the sublime of sentiment
The contrast in the extract from Mr. Ames NAV
American Parents instead of asking Your
hearts, whether your children are to be rescued
from Bonaparte's CONSUMPTION by TIE British Ma
~, teach your children, lift should be necessary
TO de for their country Take YOUR lesson of pa
rental affection well of patriotic virtue from
Comedies Roman, and not from the faithess
friends, who have divulged the weakness of Mr.
Ames's sthours.
No VI '.r.-
In my last paper, presented several extracts,
demonstrating the revolution which had been eft.
fected IN the mind of Mr.. Ames, between the
y,ar l791, when his sound head and honest heart
aisdained serviie dependence, either upon Bril-
tam or rance, and the despailing period of 1893
when the British Navy was his only hope of re-
demption from the Hells of France and democra-
cy' 1t might perhaps be an entertaining, and not
altogether an uhinstructve inquiry, by what pro-
cess andby means ofwhat agency this revolution
was accomplshed--But this is not necessary to
my present purpose.
The opinion that nothing but the British navv
can save us from the dominion of Bonaparte, is
one OF the thirty-nine articles of the select and
exclusive church-And as, in comparison with it.
transubstantiaton is rational and Ineligible
doctrine, 1T was necessary to mark the gradations
OF fear, and horror, of Franoe, and the transiti-
ons from patriotic affection to unutterable con-
tempt for our own country, which preceded the
intrusion of this glaring absurdity,- into mind
so capacious OF better things, az that of Mr.
Ames.
compare it to transubstantiation, because it
Contains within itself an inconsistency the mere
statementof the position is its refutation-.-Ame-
ricaii independence, dependent upon British navy
nor is the inconsistency in the word only-It is
rooted IN the thing. The independence of a na.
uon must rest upon its own energies, and you
might as well talk of the liberties of an African
slave, as or the freedom of one nation supported
by nothing but the power of another.
IL Is IN Its nature, principle of servile depen-
dence-And it the fact were soft the peopIe
OF this nation were utterly debased beneath the
name and character OF manhood, as Mr. Amos
mas declared them TO be If " we are of all men
on earth fittest to be slaves of what consequence
IS 1t whether we are the slaves of French or Bri-
tish masters
QlIid refert mea
Sui serVami, ciltellas dunn portem meas
If the people Of this Union were reduced to
that dePiorable condition, of having only to deli
berate whose base herd they would be"-stilI
~ WOULD be incumbent upon those who prefer the
domination OF Britain to that of France, to shew
mat the British yoke would be the easiest-that
the protection OF the British navy would be safe
reiiance-that by redemption from the Hell of
france, we should have a Paradise yepdineI in
srltln. Upon this subject, let us look at what
has oeen passing in the world, from the com
mencement OF the French revolution Within
the last hiteen years, there is not nation in Eu-
rope, excepting France and Denmark, but has
haa the promise of British protection, and the
curse OF British allianee--not one of them but
mas Oeehaolunged by 1T, into the laws of perditi-
on. And, what ought not to have escaped the
auenuon OF an American statesman, it has in the
result made them all dependent upon France
ne uniform course has been this Britain first
inshgates them to unfurl their banners ara;nst
her enemy forms her alliance with them: makes
'hem night her battles sacrifices them to her
own projects OF naval dominion or foreign con-
quest, and ends by abandoning them to the mer.
y OF an exasperated and victorious foe. When
she mas thus made them the helpIess yictims ne
her own treachery,& Of Frances resentment, she
seioom lalls to turn against them her own thlln-
ders, and like the Prince of Darkness. becomes
the f'hai torTnentor Of those whom she first sedu
ced. IRIS IS the process through which the Span
ISM Patriots are passing at this hour. 1t is the
course through which Sweden is passing II ia
the course through which the people of this Uni
on, would, beyond all question, now be passing.
II tue government of the nation had been in the
hands ofthe political sect who believe in these
doctrines. " 'iS'S
1t our nominal independence of France rested
upon no other foundation ofpower than the navy
OF England, the consequence would be that we
should again be under the domination of Enpland
Her argument would be, that in all reason we
ought to contribute our share to support the ex
PenSe OF protecting US, and we should soon be
cahed upon Tor our contribution Of men as we'll
as Oh money. ibis IS not speculative anticipati-
oh-lh TACT both these pretensons have been adj
Vanced The tribute claimed, and IN one ms
lance levied, under the orders in council. was AN
und'sguised attempt to renew the project Of tax
suion upon America, which severed this CONT