The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS.
FoR TIE ENQUIRER,
ELooUENCEi

ELooUENCEi
TIE .foilo4ving strains Of iisdignati6n
f4r,t from Lord Chatham IN the ifonse Of
lords on fhe 1871 Of November, 1777-Soon
Qfier his shecch on ire address 10 TIE YNronc,
at the ohening Of Parliament. e This
sheech qpcs among rho last. efforts ortkis dis
Blaze Of eioquence, he denounced The mca-
snrce Frhirh zsere 3harsued By the niirristrs:
and conctuded by moving thar " The most
.jcedy and e6cctuat measures be taken, for
restoring fcQce in .4mericQ."
TIE indignGxt etoquence Of Chg:hanr gcas
IoScrper vain The inhuman tactics Of
Sn6otk gvas Pursued. The Indian, 7verc
c-ouSed against the americans. The blood
ofIilis$ McRAE strean,ed from the Calling
knife Of the sapage. The perq slaves acre
inUifed 10 join The British CAN'T. acre
system gvere for cver reHnquiShcd. But
IN me caiitai1tio1 Of Cayenne on January
Il, 1909 70 the English and Portuguese
frees, IL is "habLicly declared" by Victor
N2ghes, " fhGt he SWyrendcrS less TO The
force than to tire destructive system Of IL
6eTcHng all the slaves, gvllo should join the
fHemy.'
IN the course oftae debate, lord Suffolk, Sc
SFt-ltiy INr tilc notlncrn UeDartNlSNt, undertook
IS defend the employment -of The Indians, in the
war. His lordshp commended, that besides its
6clfcy and secesSity, the measure WAS also allow
able on principle. For that it was perfectly
unsuitable to- all the means that Cad and Ma
tRre put into HANDS"
l AM AsToHIsHEp (exclaimed Lord Chat
ham, as he rose)-shocked to lear such prin-
cipies contessed--to hear them ayowcd in this
house, or in this country principles equally UNI
constitutional, inhurnan, and unchrstan
My lords, did rot intend to have encroached
again upon your attention but cannot repress
yny indignation. feel myself impelled by every
duty. My lords, we called upon members
Cfths house, men, as christian men, to protest
against such notions standing near the throne,
poiuting the ear OF majesty. "That God and
nature put into our hands 20 know not what l.
IDEAS that lord may entertain of God and nature !;
but know that such abominable principles are
equally sbhoTrent 10 religion and humanity
What to attribute the sacred sanction of Sod
and nature to the massacres of the Indian scalp.
ing knite-to the cannibal savage, torturng, muir
dering, roasting and eating literally, my lords,
eating the maugled victims of his barbarous bat
ties Such horrible notions shock every precept
OF religion. divine natural, and every generous
feeling OF humanity. And, my lords, they shock
every sentiment of honor; they shock me as a To-
yer of honorable war, and detcster of murdc-
rous rarbarity.
These abominable principles. and this more
aSominahlc avowal of them, demand the most
decisive indignation. call upon that right rev
erend bench, those holy ministers of the gospel,
and pious pastors ofour church, con ure them
20 join in the holy work, and vindicate the reli-
gion of their gC-i | appeal to the wisdom and
the law ofthis learned bench, TO defend and sup
port the justce Of their country. call upon the
bishops, to interpose the unsettled sanctity OF
their lawn; upon the learned judges, to inter
pose the purity of their ermlne, to save us from
this pos.ution. I call upon the honor of your
lordsLps, TO reverence the dignity of your ances-
tors, and TO maintain Your own. Icall upon the
spirit and humanity of my country, to vindcate
the national character. l invoke the genius of
the constitution. From the Tapestry that adorns
these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble.
lord trows.s with indignation at the disgrace ofhs
country. In vain he led your victorious fleets o.
gainst the Boosted Armada of Spain in vain he
defended and established the honor, the iiber-
ties, the religion the protestant religion, of this
country, against the arbitrary cruelties of popery
and the inquisition, if these more than popish
cruelties and ,nqusitorial practices let loose
among us to turn forth into our settlements, a.
;nong orr ancient connections, friends, ard rela-
tions, the nerciIess cannibal, thirsting for the
blood of man, woman, and child to send forth
the infidel savage-against whom against YOU
protestant brethren to lay waste their country,
to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their
race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds
VI osNtIc war - Hctt-floUfUS, = say, OF savage
war. Spain armed herself with blood hounds to
eXtirPatc the wretched natives of America and
we IMPROVE on the inhuman example even ofthe
Spanish cruelty turn loose these savage
hell-hounds against our brethren and country
men in America, of the same language, laws,
liberties, and religion, endeared to us by every
tie that should sanetify humanity.
My lords, this awful subject 50 important to orr
honor. our constitution s. our religion, demands
tha most solemn and eftac.ual enquiry. And |
again call upon your lordships, and the united
powers of the state, to examine it thoroughly and
decisiveiy, and to stamp upon it an indeibe stig-
1ra of the public adherence. And again inn
plore those holy prelatcs of our religion, TO do
way thofe iniqhties from among us. Let them
perform illustration let them purify this house,
and this country from this sin
My lords, am old and weak, and ut present
unable to say more but my feelings and indig-
nation were too strong to have said less. could
not have slept this night in my hrd, nor rcposed
my head on my pillow, without giving this vent
to my eternal adherence of such preposterous &;
enormous principles.
Lord E6faghaan>-Lori Bingham H,,o.
ard gvas '1rd high atiDiyaie n En2iaal against the
Spanish Grn,nga, the destruction If 7vhich is re-.
byt. UfeI in fbe f16ecgyy