The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-03-09

the security OF an important class Of citizens
whose occupations give the proper value to
those ut every other class. Not to contend
f'r such Il stake, ~ to surrender eur equal
iiy with other powers, on the element COM
mon TO all and to violate the sacred title
which every member OF tie society has to
its protection. j need not call into view
the unlawtulness of the practice, By which
our mariners are forced, at the will of ev-
cry cruising officer from their own vessels
into t~reign ones. nor paint the outrages in
separabie from it. The proofs are in the
records of each successive administration
of our government; and the cruel suiferngs
OF that portion of the American people have
found their way To every bosom not dead to
the sympath,es of human natare.
| AS the war was just in its origin, and ne
I'cessary ana noble in it's objects, we can re
| flect with proud satisfaction, that in car
rying It on, no principle Of justice or honor,
70 usage OF civilized nations, no precept of
courtesy or humanity have been infrngcd.
The war has been waged Oh our part, with
scrupulous regard to all these Obligations
and in spirit of liberality which was new
err surpassed.
tow little has beeen the effect Of this ex
ample on the conduct of the enemy!
| They have retained as prisoners of war
citizens OF the United States, not liable
TO be so considered under the usages of
war.
They have refused to consider as prison
ers. OF war. and threatened to punish as
traitors and deserters, persons emigrating
without restraint to the United States i'm
corporated by naturalization into oar polit
icai family. and fighting under the author
honorable war, for the maintenance Of it's
righHs and safety. Such is the avowed pur
pose of q government which is in the prac-
iice OF naturalizing by thousands, citizens
of other countries and not only of permitting
but compelling. them to. fight its battles "a
lganist their native, country.
They have not, i is true, taken into their
iown hands the Ratchet and the knife, de
voted to indiscriminatc massacre bu;
they have let loose the savaEes armed with
tHese cruel instruments; have alured
them into their service, and carried them
to battle by their sides, eager to glut their
savage thirst with the blood of the van
IQdished, anu to finish the work of torture
ahd death on MANNED and defcncelcss
tclptlves. AMI what was never befor e
seen, British commanders have extorted
victory over the unconquerabie valor of our
troops, bY presenting to the sympathy Of
. sheir chief awaiting massacre from their sa
wage associates.
4, And now we find them, in further con-
tempt OF the modes of honorable warfare.
supplying the place Of conquering force,
by attempts to disorganise our political so
ciety, to dismem,ber our ccufederatcd Re
public. Happily like others, these will recoil
on the authors but they mark the degene.
rate councils from which they emanate
and II they did not belong to a series of
iuneXampled Inconsistencies, might excite
the greater wonder. as proceeding from a
government which founded the very war
IN which it has been so long engaged on a
charge against the disorganizing and insur-
regional policy of its adversary.
10 render the justic of the war on our
part the more conspicuous, the reluctance
TO commence it was followed by the earli-
est and strongest manifestations of dispo.
sition to arrest its progress. The sword
was scarcely out of the scabbard, before
the enemy was apprZed of the reasona-
bic terms on which it would be re-sheath
ed. Still more precise advances were re-
peated. and have been received in a spirit
foroiddlnS every reliance, not placed on
he military resources of the nation.
| These resources are amply sufficient to
bring tho war to an honorable issue Our
nation is in number, more than half that of
the British isles. Its composed of brave,
a free, a Nirtuous and an intelligent PEG
pie. Our country abounds in the necessa-
ries, the arts & comforts of the life A ge-
neral prosperity is visible in the pubic
| countenanoe. The means employed BY the
British cabinet to undermine it, have re-
| coied OF themselves have given to our
national faculties more rapid develope-
! ment and, draining or diverting the pre-
| cioas metals from British circulation and
British vaults. have poured them into those
OF the United States. vt is e. propitious
consideration. that an unavoidable war
| should have found this seasonable facility
| tor the contributions required to support it.
when the public voice called for war,
all knew and still know. shat without
| them 1T could not be carried on, through
the period which it might last and the
| patriotism, tfe good sense, and the manly
spirit OF our fellow-ctizens, are pledges
tor 'he cheerfulness with which they viii!
bear each his share Of the sonir>on burden.
10 render the war short, and its success
sure, animated and systematic exertions
alone are necessary; and the success e
our arms now may long preserve our couh-
try from the necessity Of another resor, to
them. Already have The fallant exploits
| OF our naval heroes proved to the world
our inherent capacity to maintain our
rights OH one element.----If the reputa.
ton OF our arms has been thrown under
clouds ON the ether, presagng flashes of
heroic enterprise assure us that nothing
is wanting to- correspondent mbhs there
also. but the discipline and habits which are
in daily progress,
In the evening there was 4 splendid AS
sem6ly at Davis's II otel, in the honor of the