The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-09-01

ted. whatsoever, IN any country, see an OPP
pressed nation unfurl the banners Of free
dom. Bur above all, The French reuolur-
on has produced the deepest solicitu,e, as
we'll as the highest admiration. To call
your nation brave. were to pronounce but
common praise. Wonderful people ages to
come will read with astonishnent the histo.
~ of your brilliant exploits. rejoice that
the period of your tolls and Of your immense
sacrifices is approaching. l rejoice that the
interesting revolutionary movements of so
many years have issued in the formation Of
constitution designed to give permanency
to the great object for which you have con-
tended. I rejoice that liberty, which you
have so long embraced with enthusiasm
liberty OF which you have been the invinci-
BILE defenders, now finds an ASYLUM i'm
the bosom of a regularly organized govern
ment, which being formed to secure the hap
piness of the French people, corresponds
with the ardent wishes of my heart. while
1t gratihes the pride of every citizen of the
United States by its resemblance to their
own. On these glorious eUents accept, sir,
my sincere congratulations Vet these
were "monsters and murderers."
This brings us directly to the great charge
FRENCH INFLUENCE.
1t is one of the main objects of this Memoir
as well as of the chiefs of the Federalists to
prove the prevalence of this species of Inlu-
ence in the Republican party. The most
extraordinary means of su6tcrfuge and de-
ception have been adopted for this sxtrava-
giant purpose These means are principally,
to transfer the zeal which the Republicans
felt in the cause of Liberty, and of France,
during the ausfiiciouS heriods of her revo-
lution-to the present government of that
country. Yet this miserable subterfuge has
been adopted as serious argument. This
continuation gross and unnatural as it is,
is not too extravasant to be gravely manu-
featured by the Federal party.
Yet this man does not stop here-he even
attempts to trace il higher In the (OId)
Congress, these existed strong party, de-
terminately disposed 10 subject the interests
OF the u. >. to the will and discretion of the
French Government--and in word, too
plainly to be misunderstood, manifested a
design to cajole the states into surrender
OF themselves to France, in the same reia ion
they had. before the war, borne to G ~.
Is. 10. Nor one title ofhroofis produced of
such disposition in single man-much
less IN a strong farty-None can be
produced, And yet this is the man who
writes as " IT he were giving evidence in a
court OF Justice" According to his own
shelving, therefore. he is guilty Of perjury.
That the aid and alliance Of France during
the perilous crisis of our Revolution. had
inspired us with friendly feelings towards
her, was natural enough but no man, qua
lined to give evidcnce on the subject, will
care to say that these attachments would
have led TO sacrifice our own RIGHTS or those
OF others. This man is just as unfortunate in
his other facts
lhe leading me nbers of the .Jaco5in
C!uo met at the house of Mr. Jefferson. when
minister at Paris Let anv man lnox IN
dates and evrntS. There were no Jacobins
in France, when Mr. j was there.
. France had not them after Mr.. Msdi-
sons resolutions before the 1st Congress, J
rendered herself quite so lovely in the ewes
OF free Americans, as she has since done by
her revolutionary virtues and exploits, bv
her deism, atheism aud multitudinous inca
sures, by her Marats and Robespierres. her
Dan ons and her Ronapartes" ID. SIS, CIV
an attentive consideration OF these ,.xtraor.
binary proceedings, the reader Will be ena
bled to discover why America was 10
be reduced to state of hrouinciak obedience
% France; why Brissot, Robespierre, Marae,
Danton, Fallen and Barras were, each IL,
MS turn, the bosom friends of those A me
rIcan Patriots, why Bonapartc is novu idol
zed, feared, and obeyed" And vet this is
the man. who complains of 8curriAfy and
.taLschood!.
Bat we must cease our guotations-[Ve
only repeat again, that it is a miserable al.
ttlce to say, that because we wished success
tothe French. 7vhfn they raised the banners
OF freedom, we were then. ready to be the
slaves ot FranCe-or are R1zy The enthusiasts
tic admirers OF the deah0ti8Dt which has su-
peryened. According 70 these tests George
Washington himself must have been the
slave of French influence, a. most clearly
appears from his address 10 vi Adet in 'o6
las well all the friends OF his administered
on, as is seen by the truly federal authority
OF Mr. Marshal, in the j;h Vol of the Life
OF Washington, when speaking OF Mr.. Jeiler-
sons retirement in %
"He had, in that correspondence, main
tanned with great ability, the opinions en-
hraced by the federalists on those points OF
difference which had arisen between the two
republics, &c The partially for France
tlat was conspicuous throughout the whole
OF 1t, detracted nothiFg from its merit in the
opinion of the friends Of tue administration.
because however decided might be their de-
termination TO support their own government
III controversy with any nation whatever.
they felt all the partialities for that repub
nc which the correspondence Expressed
Vol. s, Page 4s9.
W We shall, in our next, take up this vi
sion OF French Influence again.
Cuiicnis peculiarly severe upon the me-
Inory OF Thomas Paine, who is now mouider-
ing IN his grave Paine, who had brayed
the EailpNySc f { pr;ta;, ~,