The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-23
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, JUNE -. 1919
THE .NLlN EKA."

=" THE NE ~ 1EK.A."
We have ut length the pleasure of an
that the government have assum
ed IA stand, to redress the wrongs & vndi-
cate the rights of their country A Procla-
NATION of WAR has gone forth against q.
Br1tahi--thc sneers of writings. who aver
red that 1--WE could not be kicked into Il
war" TO the contrary Notwithstanding
The energies Of the Republic are fast dis
Closing themselves and may God desert
those who now desert their country The
Administration breathes an mistaken COLI
hdencc into the peopie-and ii the people
are only true to their government & to them
selves, the crisis will eventuate in a speedy
and honorable peace.
The Message of the President will re-
commend hself-for it is one of the most
mastery, candid, condensed compositions
which have ever been addressed to a free
people. IL is adapted to the occasion. 1t
breathcs the soul of energy-cOnhrmingt the
at achment Of his friends and daunting the
hopes OF his enemies.
The war ~ii. be waged with spirit.-1t
is SAID that Rodgers and Decatur will be
ordered to attack the British vessels off n.
York; and that Fort Maiden will imme
diately be assailed-thus drawing a line of
decentralization around the lndians.-We
are told IN letter from Washington, that
| ON Saturday last :" proposition would be
| laid before the III. of Il. to repeal the EN-
barge Immediately (; at least so TAR as re-
| iates to the WATER, that part as to the
LAND (Carada) to remain as it is. "A pro-
position is also mentioned 10 qualify the
Non-lmportation Act-letting in until the
| LIST April next the bona tide properly of H.
merican Merchants in q. Britain, with the
exception of certain specified articles.-A
motion was, perhaps, made yesterday in the
| III. of Il. for an adjournment in 2 few DAYS.
| The Declaration of War has been recei-
| we'd with eXultation by all those among us
| who love & understand the interest of their
country.--lt as ushered in with Federal
Salute Both in the Morning and in the Even
ing.
= Fort 17qlden is nearly ohhosite to De-
| troit-on the other side The Strait qvhich
| connects Lake So. Clair with Lake Erie.
WASHINGTON, June IS, 1912.
The injunction. OF secrecy was about an
| hour ago removed from the following Mes
sage, Report or Manifesto. and Act.
Mar. Int.
To the Senate and House Of Representa-.
HOes Of The United States.
communicate to Congress certain docu
| ments, being continuation of those hereto
fore laid before them, ON the subject of GU,
affairs with Great Britain.
! Without going back beyond the rencwa
i'll 1905 OF the war in which O.. Is. is cngag
ed, and emitting unrepaired wrongs of infe
rior magnitude, the conduct of her govern
ment presents a series of acts hostile t,
the u. ). as an independent and neutral ma
ton.
British cruisers have been in the eontin
ued practice OF violating the American flag
on the great high way of nations, and of sci
zing and carrying off persons sailing unde
it not in the exercise of beliigerent RICH
founded on the law of nations against a
enemy, but OF a municipal prerogative owe
British subjects. British Jurisdiction is thu
iextended to neutral vessels situatIo
where no laws Can operate but the law OF ma
tons & the laws the country to which the yes
sells belong ;Sla seif-redreSs is assumed Whlc
If British subjects were wrongfuiiy detaine
and alone concerned, is that substitution q
force, tor resort to theresponsible sovereign
which falls within the definition of war
Could the seizure of British subjects il
such cases be regarded as within the
exercise of a bell gerent right, the acknowl
edged laws of war, which forbid an arti
Gle of captured property TO be adjudgeC
without regular investigation before z
competent tribunal would imperiously de
| mand the fairest trial where the sacred
nights of persons we're at issue In place O
| HuSH tiidlJ tttSc flSntS are SUBJECTED II
the VIII OF every petty commander.
The practice, hence, so far from affect
ing British subjects alone, that, under the
pretext of searching for these, thousands o
American citizens, under the safeguard o
public law, and of their national flag have
been torn from their country and from eve
ry thing dear to them have been dragged
on board ships Of war of foreign nation, s
exposed, under the seventies of their discip
line, to be exiled to the most distant ant
deadly climes, to risk their lives in the bat
ties OF their Oppressors, and to be the me.
lancholy instruments of taking away those
of their own brethren.
Against this crying enormity, which Grea
Britain would be so prompt to avenge if com
mitted against herself the u. S. have ir
vain exhausted circumstances and expos
tuiatIons And that no proof might be wan.
ting OF their conciliatory dispositions, ant
no preteXt left for continuance of the prac.
tee, the British government was formal,
| assured OF the readiness of the u. S. to Ell
ter INTO arrangements, such as could not be
rejected, IT the recovery of British sub
lects were the real and the sole object
| L ne communication passed without effect.
British cruizers have been in the prac-
tIce also OF violating the rights & the peace
OF our coasts. They hover over and harras.
our entering and departing sommerce. IL
the most insulting pretensions they have
added the most lawless proceedings in oul
very harbOrs and have wantonly spilled A.
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