The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-04-24
SPIRIT OF TENNESSEE.
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10 the impulse Of the nation Your imDatience ;s no
longer restrained. The hour of national vengeance
rs now at hand. The eternal enemies of American
prosperity are again to be taught to respect our
rights, after having been compelled to feel, once
more, the power of our arms.
War is or the point OF breaking out between tn.
United States and the King of Great Britain! and
the militia host of America are summoned to the
tented fields!
CITIZENS! an honorable confidence in your cou
rage and patriotism has been DISPLAYED nv The pcne
raj government. To raise force for the protection
OF your rights, she has not deemed il to re-
cur to the common mode OF filling the ranks of AN
army-No drafts or compulsory levies are now to be
made--a simple invitation is given to the Young m on
OF the country, to turn out for their own and their
country's rights On this invitation $4,000 Volun-
teers, full OF martial ardour, indignant Mt their eon
trys wrongs, and burning with Impotence to illus
trsste their name by some signal exploit are expect
cd to repair to the national standard.
Could 1t be otherwise could the general govern
ment deem 1t necessary to force us To take the field
we who have tor so many years demanded n war
with such ciamorous importunity--who in so many
resolutions of Town meetings and Legislative Assem-.
bes, have offered our lives and fortunes for the de-
fence OF our country-who, often and so p,bIicy
have charged this very government with pusillani-
nous deference to foreign nations because she had
resolved to exhaust the cup of negotiation before
she made her last appeal to the force of arms. No.
under 'ue', circumstances II was impossible for the
government to conceive that compulsion would be
wanting to bring US into the field. And shall we now
d.sappoint the expectations which we ourselves have
excited shall we give the lie to the professions which
we have so often and SO publicly made? Shall we
who have clamoured for now skuk into a cor
ner the moment war is about to be declared Shall
we, who Tor so many years have been rendering our
| lives and fortunes to the general government now
come with evasions and pitifuI excuses the mo-
ment the tenderi accepted
But another and nob!er feeling should impel us
to action Uho are qper ara. for phat are sre go
ing to fight?
Are we the titled slaves of George the third the
milf o.afN Al.
zen peasants OF the Russian Gar? No we are the
free born sons OF America; the citizens of the only
| republic now existing in the world and the only
people on earth that possess rights liberties and pro-
| perry which they dare call their own
For S0hat are zresgoing to fight? To satisfy the
revenge or ambition of corrupt and infatuated mi
nisuy I? 20 place another and another dadem on the
head OF an apostate Republican General to settle
! the power among an assassin tribe of
kings and empeYors &c or to preserve to the Prince
of the blood, and the Grand Dignaries of the EN-.
pre-, their over-grown wealth and exclusive privi-
| leses No Such splendid achievements as these
can form no part of the object of an American war.
We are going to fight for the re establishment of our
national character, misunderstood and violated mt
| home and abroad; for the protection of our mari.
| time citizens, impressed on board British ships of
war, and compelled to fight the battles of our enc
mics against ourselves; TO vindcatc our right to Il
free trade, and open markc: for the productions OF
our soil, now pcrishing hands, because the
mistress OF the ocean has forbid us to eOnye; them
" any iOrSISh hatlOn; IN Inc, to seek ndenn-
~ Tor past injuries, some security against future az
gcessOns by the conquest of all the british domjnions
upon the continent OF NorIh-America
Here then is the true aud noble principle on which
the energies OF the nation should be brought into ae-
ton n free beoTle compe7Ied 10 reclaim by TIE
poser q heir arms tie rights zrhich God has BE-
stoSved upon them, and aUhIch IN infatuated king
has said they snail not enjoy.
Ia such contest will the people shrink from the
support OF their government: or rather will they
shrink from the support of Themselves! viii they a.
bandon their great mprescriptible rights and tome
Is surrender that illustrous national character which
vas purchaser with so mush blood in the war of the
revolution! No such uiauy shall not flll upon
VS. The 2ivocates of kingly power shall not eioy
the triumph OF seeing free people desert them
selves, and crouch before The slaves of foreign tv
rant me patriotic tender OF voluntary service "
the inyiuciblc brcys, capt. y. Stnp's Infeucujrnt
company, and spOndeut display of patrioisu
by the voluntary tender of service from te counties
OF Davidson, Sumner, Smith aud Rutherford, is a
sure pledge that the free sons OF the west will never
submit to such degradation.
But the period of youth is the season for martial
exploits, and accordingly it is upon tire young men off
America that the eye of the nation is now Fixed
They ~ peculiar degree, arc the proper subjects
OF volunteer expedition to say nothing of the rene
courage which distinguishes that period nj life
they, FROM their peculiar situation can quit their
homes ut the shortest notice, with the least ncon-
venence TO themselves, unncunbered with families
and free from the embarrassment of domestic cnu
Germs. They ready at moments warn;no 10
march To- am extremity of the republic Shouh the
occupation of the Capadas be resolved mon bv the
general government, how pleasing the prospect ht
would oper 10 the yone volunteer while urrfo o,i,
military broincHade into distant country sucees
sion of and interesting objects would nernctua
fill and delight his Imagination the effect Of wIici
would be heightened by tie warlike appearances IN
martial music and the grand evoltions of an army o.
fifty thousand mca.
To view nc stupcndous works OF nature cxemrfE |
~ IN tlc fails o. Niagara and tic cataract o. Toni