The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-07-10

us distance or time TO tell. But SO it is,
hey tell us that they made slaves of you.
I'd hcid>you in bondage. until they them
elves Wee lost amidst the nations of the
Earth. Abandoned by your masters, yonr
ltua.ion was sufficiently, deplora5le--
GU were unable to resist the inroat,s of
hose who are now Your best subects--the
'cots. You then gave a tribute to the pr
aticai savayes OF Germany to protect the
men miserable degenerate race, every way
'espicable, from bondage of between 4 &
centuries.
Instead OF protecting, the Saxons almost
eXterm'nated the original inhabitants-
md when these same SaXons had got pos
session OF the principal part of the Island,
they without concert, but i'll the progress
OF events. formed themselves into seven
petty kingdoms. and these were for long
line plundering and slaughtering each o.
her, until they became united under one
head. AT no very distant period, it was
he tate OF these same conGuering extermi-
mating Saxons, (after being compelled to
surrender part Of their territory to ano-
cher set of marauding barbarians,) to be
subdued themselves-and we know for
certainty, that all the property OF the in
habitants was confiscated and ell the prin-
cipal men murdered and we have strong
reasons to believe that the great body of
ry-not merely political, but domestic sla-
very that state of slavery into which, in
after times, these same British forced the
Africans, AID introduced among us--there-
ny polluting the purity of our virgin he
| misphere. After going through scenes of
rapine and bloodshed, too disgusting for
| recital, this people did at last attain por-
| tion of political libcrty-domest slavery
having long been abolished. But such is
the spirit which has ever animated the GO
vernment Of Great Britain, that that very IL
berty, portion of which they ENJOY them
| selves, and of which they are so Justly jea-
lous, they seem unwilling that any other
| nation should participate. They say they
are fighting the battles of the world: in
one sense OF that expression, they are-for
| they are fighting all the world. / defy the
| most ingenious sophist. the most jcsutical
casuist in the court of St. James's, to pro-
ducc IN the whole history of England one
instance in which she has ever rendered
Justice to any nation but by compusion.--
That they are the tyrapts of the ocean,
they do not deny for they have published
| 1t IN song and story, that =" tbs all British
LAND which lies under the ocean, That
they ARE rot the tyrants f.of the earth, is
only hecanse they have not the power to be
so for it isa ta!2t of historical record that
IN proportion tie their power, the govern
meAt OF Great Britain, under every change
otIts administration, has inflicted MOI MI
series upon poor snGqring human nature,
lhan any rYta.i. or set os men from the fabu-
lous days Of Seaostrls down to the sad rea-
hty OF Napc!ccn's wide extended rule -
| heir own historians tell us, that after
what they term the grand rebellion in
1913 there was n tract of country eXten-
ding 60 miles, in Scotland, in which there
was not to be fcpnd one single human be-
ing nay, not Iiying creature in existence
tinto the heart of which he, at whose man
date the planets hrsS rolled, had poured
the iite-biood of animation. The lamb Of
the vale was no longer TO be found eren
the mountain goat had persisted in it.
cloudy cliffs of retreat-for
" With IRE anil sword the country round,
f., Vas wasted far and vide,
And many new born infant then,
" And cli'liUg mother died"
And this was the work Of the Royal Duke
lot CumDerland's armY---of England's myr-
midons. See devoted India, at this very
moment--a population, twice that which
now inhabits Great Britain, in one particu-
lar district of Hindostan, were swept away
we are told by contemporary English
historian, and the country reduced to what
he terms jungle that is, wilderness,
tenanted alone by the beasts of the forest.
aiCidHur I,1S enough 10 mention the name
to recall the atrocities of Britain-let us
drop the curtain no pen can paint, no tongue
can tell her various and diversified woes
II there be an lishman, who is recrcant to
The cause OF liberty, he is not brother to
The Filginian. 1t should be their home,
and he loves them on account of their CD
pressions. From these scenes Of British
crueites, in other quarters of the globe let
us turn to the expressions committed e.
ganst our own country. They have been
SD often enumerated--so often recuunted,
that they must still reverberate in your
ears. There is no necessity, had ! the
power, 10 make any appeal to cur passi-
ons the laundering cannon which announ-
ced your rejoiCingS at the reception of the
glad tidings Of a declaration OF WAR, suffi-
ciently bespeak your feelings on the pre-
sent occasion. If there be a joy in gifrc
we may turn aside from the crimes which
they have committed against other natl MS
to view the situation of some, and not a
few, of our own couutrymen. The free-b0rn
the independent, the proud and dignifed
Citizen of the great American Republic, in
Extensively pursuing lis honest avccation, is
captured, eiislaVed and condemned, upon
the giddy roundup, or the blood stained
deck, III one Of those diaboical inventions
OF man, called a ship Of war, to fight a.
gainst his Couutrym au--pe rhaps his bro
Their. We see him next upon the gangwav
for the expression of noble hatred against
those principles which reduced him to sla-
very. Divested even of the habiliments
with which his oppressors had found it
their interest to cover him his revere nd
locks streaming to the 80 yIetyless wind -