The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-10-09
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To that power which should efusc to
respect them, aiter The other had
ceased TO violate them.
@d mat France has revoked her DEGREES
IN compliance with this our h,oGer ;
{ tha' sue now stands upon The Shirt
and letter Of orr iazv-our national
! engagement and thai France does
| O., no, require any o her concii ION than
| tnat which our iaSv altered.
| Sd. 1nat we have nuw only 20 say to Bril-
tam, ''you have violated our rights
upon The plea OF retaa ion against
france you have said that if France
would abandon her DEGREES, YOU would
revoke yours-France has abandon.
Ell her DEGREES the plea Vt retaliati,
on, therefore, no longer avails You,
tuihi your promise now by doing us
Justice %
These are The actual grounds upon which
| we now stand.
lac next question for consideration. is.
Will Britain now do, what her own ministers
and her smissaries in America have so Of
| ten SAID she wc.id do
IN this place it may be we'll to shew what
are the restrictions Of the Berlin and Milan
DEGREES, and VIVA, change their removal
wi produce. Those DEGREES subjected A..
nercano 70 seizufe-if taken gong to or
returning from BRUSH pnrt-if they paid
| tax TO England, or otherwise subni!l! ed tc,
her reguiations-if they conve, ed British
manufactured good, or British co,oniaI pro-
ducs---it they sailed under British convoy
- and IT they even touched at British
port. they were forbidden to enter France.
OF course from the 1st November next. our
| vessels may trade as fully and as freely. if
me BRITISH zoW nor moiest them, as they did
before any French decree was passed or be.
fore the French revolution itself
| his freedom TO trade to aud from Eng~
land andin any English goods, has been SAID
to be the cole o6ject eff Britain. But we shall
now at Length, find what has been so ca.
Oily predicted by democratic. writer's. that
all this ak about retaliation, &c. mas been
false e shall find cha, Britain nezer in
fended 10 reatect oar rights, ana tha, we
must now at the eLeUentb hour, take other
means % make her respect them, or sink i'm
10 everlasting disgrace as "A nation
That Britain mil nor now do, what it has
been 40 often pretended she zvished TO do I
contend from considers. ion of her esta-
blished policy, her unif rm conduct and
the aVe"ais puw made by her ministerial
ne7oSfafie1s l. London, and in Boston and,
| IN New York and 0'ner of our eaports.
ne policy " Bri aIR is written in bloody
characters upon The pages even ut her own
historians by the hand of narure destined
to "e = .ation only of the second or third or
DER, ii has been her steady purpose 10 rise,
! ABOVE hef oest'ay. and ~ support by force
or fraud Dredominancy amongst nations.
Had her efforts bee governed bv a generous.
ambition, by those en- iobng passions which
constitute glory on the freedom, happiness.
and ciVIl-aiiun # the world upon The DIFF
fusion OF science and the promotion of yir-
| tue; had her n,erprizes been even tine
tured with The chivarous spirit of emanci..
paung nanoas. and converting the universe,
INTO social communion of interests and en-.
! rNFp ffNEs
would have paiiiated the. e2 ravagance Of
the undertaking buc when her actual DO.
| hey Is considered, and we analyse it whas
ucSlSu and Whata cat .strophe does it pre-
sent seiflshress is every where predomi-
| ndnt. and millions are famished. massacred
| or eDsiaved, IN order that few thousand
| persons occupying only part of an island
| or about 900 by 500 square miles in thu
north OF Europe, should live in luxury add
wealth at the eSpence and to the subi,fea .
tion OF the rest of the world. Where is there,
| commercial! state in Europe that has es-
capped the. seduction of her gold or the RAJ
pacItY CT her squadrons destitute of resour-
ceS Tor manufactures, she has prevented the
superiority which the possession of those re-
sources naturaIl' gave to her neighbors, by
involving thsm IN constant wars with each
other, and hence has contrived o secure one
means oi establishing her monopoly. and
prospecting in %ealh upon the miseries of o.
ther nations by similar means, by foment.
Ing intestine brols, exciting iealousies, by
temptations and brides. she has arrayed the
nations OF woqnariers of the globe against
each other, in one of which she has subject
ed 90 millions 0f PEG; lie 10 her rapacity on
the European continent by granting subsidies
she has taken care 10 employ continental
nations IN war with each other upon The land.
which have at last terminated in her ex-
puls,on from 1t ; whilst she has raised a ma
| Wy upon. the oceau capable OF crushing alt
commercial enterprise or what she fears
| most, commercial comheifion.
| 10 secure his niDnofioiy at manufactures
and commerce and cotomal rapine che. has
been contending for tboye five Centuries is
1T likely then. that she will now sto, i'm
her career, to egabie U8 to enter into a ,., m
! petition with, "r what she fcats. ~ sap he
foundation of her monopoly ? do not our r.
chants know the ~ III illousy, with VIII n
our commercial progress has been viewed
throughout the ar u sever nimicai 20
france. must they not admit that our com
merclal prosperity is declared by B,itain to
be incompatible 10, . hey interests ?
| II this be admitted, as it must be OPENLY
by every honest American merchant who
has a grain Of undefs andng. and covertIy
| bv every British pariizan or agent, let me
ask what would he the effects, if Britain
we're to "resfiecf our neutral rights 2"
In the first place. one great source of her