The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-01-23
Ffom the Charleston huestisaior.

I .x'f ~Ut sIc NHtsI ESSEc"
HOW shocking to the pride " Oldt3g
and is the supe' ior prowess OF our gailant
,eurnen evinced ia every Instance vi con
| act with her boastrd wooden walls since
I he commence m MT Of the war! That ar
roganoe for wni, il She is OF all nations the
most remarkable :: which has ever been Il
eaoing trait in the character of her haugh-
" sons yields It's reluctant assent with
| pain too pungent for dssinulation, 10 the
danning fact that impressed slaves, cannot
lace flte bern volunteers in battle. They
are fools their pride has made them such
or they must i'll their eternal contests have
discovered truth so plain, so simple, and
seit-evidert, Is that the principle makes the
warrior either by land or sea.
| TX Is in vain TOR these proud Islanders TO
pretend astonishmen, at The superior ag,.i-
ty, and valor Of our scaWcn. They may be
mortified (; but they oannot be surprized,
that men who learn their trade bs choice &
pursue il for interest should bc more expert
than those " no are forced into it and kept
to it, either by colnpulsiop or necessity -
Nor can they wonder tina, those who tight
/ for unbelievable and imprescriptible rights.
should be more intrepid than slaves who
light by force against the freedom OF the
world.
Considerations like these pressed upon the
mind of the sagacious BURKE, when in the
year 1775, eudeavorag to aver, war i'll
Which he foresaw, she would be the looser,
he called on his country in the eloquarJce OF
Cicero 10 " laok at the manner in which
the people OF New -England have Of late
carried on the whale fishery. hist
we follow them among the ,hmbling noun
aims II ice, and behold them penetrating in
10 the deepest frozen recesses of Hudsom's
Bay, and Daviss's Streighls whilst we are
locking for them beneath the arctic circle,
we hear that they have pierced into the op-
posi.e region of polar cold that they are
at the anlipodes and engaged under the fro
zen serpent of the South. Falkland Island,
whirh seemed too remote and romantic an
object for the grasp of national ambition, is
out stage and resting place In the progress,
,ot the'r victorious industry. Nor is the e.
lquinoctiai heat more discouraging to them
thanihe accumulated winter of both the
poles = We know that while some of than
o"aw he Enc and strike the harpoon on the
coast of .ASrlca. others run the longitude, s.
pursue theis gigantic game along the coas, of
Brazil. Ncssea but what is vexed by their
fisheries. Nnclimate that is not witness to
their tolls. Neither, the perseverance of
Holland. nor the activity of France, nor the
dextrous and firm sagacity of English en-
terprize, ever carried this most perilous
mode OF hardy industry to- the extent to
which 1t has been pushed by, this recent
people ; people who are still, as it were,
but in the gristle and not yet hardened into
the bone oil mani od.@
But neither the persuasive eloquence of
BURKE or the convincing arguments of
CHATHAM could arrest the mad career of
British ambition and folly. The King and
his party were then they are now bent
upon the humiliation of American rights
and 1t was lot until dear bought experience
had unseaied their eyes that they discover
ed the foregoing picture of the American
character, had been truly drawn.
In the single year of rs, the prizes taken
by American cruizers amounted to upwards
OF one million sterling! The Captures made
by Massachusetts alone, exceeded those
made by France and spain in any one year
of the war which ended in 1867 And
three maritime districts IN that state con-
demncd in the course of the war, j 900 pri-
yes II
Then why do the Editors of British princs
pretend to astonishment at our success
Let them look back to the days when we
were in the " gristle" and cease to wonder
We beat them in the revolution We beat
them now /; and If they do not indemnify us
for past, and secure against future ag-
gressions, WE WILL FINALLY BEAT THEM
FROM THE OCEAN,
IHarShaR. Calender.