The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-08-31

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did not feel himself TO be an American !;
not a single Frenchman who did not find
Il himself stranger"-The herds of En-
glshmen who shoal in our large towns the
number OF agents who carry on our trade !;
her consuls who give sort of tone to our
manners and our presses the minute rami
hcatons OF our commerce with her mer
chants these tend, in various degrees, TO
bias our feelings Besides, our institu.
lions and laws which are more ana
Joyous to those of her own than of any other
nation the precedents of our courts drawn
from those of Great Britain, communicate
a sort of British air to this country. Our
theatres animated by her dramas-our
libaries are filed with her books-and even
our Journals swarm with extracts from the
London prints These circumstances have
contributed III wear off tine fiery edge of
every mans feelinss-and what is worse,
oraise mp party in the bosom of this couu-
TRY; that great and very respectable part
of the community" whose sanction Mr..
Jackson congratulates himself on having OBJ
tanned IN his speech to the ieas'ers OF Mon.
treal - But If the passions of the revou
ltionary war are not wholly extinguished,
whose fault is this. Can the rose bloom
amid the SHOWS of Spitzbergen9 Can good
VIII flourish in the mids, OF continual in
sultss Can the fame expire which is in.
Can the wounds be cicatrizcd, which are
continually torn open by the hand of insult |!
II cannot bet ought not 20 be.
But our Executive" teens with a spirit
lof jealousy" towards Great Britain. And
is that any wonder. He, that has received
insults without end, mast indeed be blessed
with the faulty of infants not to feel e
Icasse of alarm But we have no suhstanti
al and legitimate subjects of complaint
iS Mn efipa Ia
ment, an unavowed eaiousv." Indeed are
the insults which have received from
. Great Britain. no,hjngs Are the paper
| Sleckadcs ofEontinentai ports. nothing -
Is the annual blockade of our own harbo,s
$ no'hings Are the outrages of British ships,
within our opn jurisdiction, nothiuge Is the
attack on the Chesapeake nothing. Are the
, orders in council no'hrss Add suppose we
were to seize three thousand Engishmen by
, force and chain them to our highways,
would the British thunders sleep, for years :
And is II OF anv consequence. hat his atroci
" has been done IN de,achmentS & by piece
meal-that our seamea have been impress
sed at various places and at various times
And vet with all these agsessions befol e
him, this man can caI.nly sit down and swear
upon his conscience, that our resentment is
undefuabic
11Rut If there were any complaints, the Bri
- fish government has always turned an atten-
, tive and respectful ear To our circumstances
= Instead Of pertinaciouslv adhering TO their
4 own views OF questions lhey have referred te
those of the American government" VIVA,
saws experience When we complained 81
!, the conduct of her officers, were hey disgra
: ced or promoted ? When we remon.tratec
. against the Chesapeake outrage, was Rerke
= ly dismissed from the service, were our sea
men restored to US were those things even
accomplished. which were due from his ma
jestv TO his own honor? When we even pro
posed a REIMBURSEMENT of our own sense OF
the atonement which WAS due 70 us and &c
= tccmpromise this matter with Mr. Rose b,
: a contemporaneous exercise of powers wa.
our proposition accepted or rejec,eds Wher
we complained that our colonial trade wa
. interrupted /; contrary to our rights, contra
= Try to a formal report OF the Attorney gene
q raj OF Britain Contrary to their ozon view,
OF the question were our wrongs redressed
and our privileges restored! When we of
: tered to rescind our embargo as to G.. Bri
tain and continue it as to France were the
orders in council abolished az they should
Internationally have been; was our propo
sitiop accepted, or rejected in terms Of con :
= tunelious taunt by Mr. George Canning 4
therefore zoe have been " most angry" il i.
certainly because we have had by far the
most 7vrongs to Complain of
But the war which G.. Britain wages /:
a sufficient pledge of the innocence of hel
> v'ews--She has mo dreams OF conquest OF
E subIugation"--shei is fighting for her exIs
, tence.--tt is true, that the TERRA FIR
MA is secure from her subjugation---,ha
:. her ships of war cannot sail with the broom
at their mast head over our fields ant
, mountains-but because she cannot ea
= us mp must we consent to have our pocket.
picked !--our Locomotive liberty restrain
E ed!--and our heards plucked at n r dis
creuon Though the pomp of ambition doe:
NOT salute our eye, must we overlook the cal
, cuiating, pimping propensities of her ava
rice! Though she has no Generals 70 sub
. due us, are her merchants brains freighted
with no vulgar dreams of mercantile ambi
ton Does the Ocean present them with
no theatre of triumph and subsection o.
when we hear her accredited minister
+ j. Jackson impressng il upon the c..
rousers Ut Montreal, that the " naval sH
, fsremacy If G.. Britain must be strenuous "
/ asserted;" are To be as blind as bats a.
midst the streaming lustre of a meridian
sun?
, AS tor Mr.. Jackson. we shall make but
, one comment only on the comments of the
Traveller. II is not true, that his cabinet
mas espouSed his cause-nor that they have
directly denounced his conduct. Slippery
as eels-they have steered very dexterously
between these extremes They indirectly
confess. that he has been guilty Of An of
tence, whilst thew attempt topead for him,