The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-02-08

eneir acts spring instinCtively from their
IpassionsEey nature, ardent--by instinct,
oraVe.oy inheritance. generous--the chill
ldren ct impulse, they Cannot avoid their vir-
tues. and to be more than noble, they must
not only be unnatural, but unnatonal En-.
ter the novel of the Irish peasant; do not
say you VIII hnd the frugality of the Scotch,
the comfort OF the English, or the tri1ing
u ram astic decorations the French cot
taser--but 20 say, that within those
"retched garrisons OF mud and misery. Won
wiit md sensibility, the most affecting DO
iNehess. the most natural; hospitality, the
most grateful; merit, the most unconsci-
Gus their look IS eioquence. their smile is
'oee; their retort is wit, their remark is
wisdom not 4 wisdom borrowed from the
DEAD, but that with which Nature has her
sen inspired them an acute observance OF
the passing Scene, Snd a keen In SIGHT to- the
motive OF its agents. Try to deceive them.
ana see with what shrewduess they will de-
tect trial to outwit them. and see wiz
what hunonr they will elude; attack them
WIKI argument, and you will stand amazed
4. .ne strength OF their expression, the ra.
pidity CT ,tneIr ideas, and the energy of their
gesture: in short, q d seems to have form
Ell our ieop'e like our Island he has tum-
DIED round the one, its wild, magnificent de-
cor2led rudeness-he ha. infused into the
her. the simplicity of virtue and the Sc is
OF genius and he says audibly to US, give
them cultivation
l ms is the way in which I have always
viewed your ques,ion--not as party Of a Sec
tarlah, or Catholic, but as an Irish ques
ton Is 1T possible that any man can seri-
ousy think the paralysis Of FIVE millions Of
such people as have described, can be a
oeheht to the Empire? Is there any man,
VINO deserves the name not of "A statesman
out OF a rational being. who can believe il
PoNtlc TO rob such a multi ude Of all the
energies OF an honorable ambition? WHY
mas protestant Ireland shot over the, empire
those rays of Genius, and those thunderbolts
OF war, winch have at once embelished
ana preserved it speak not OF former
era eler not for instance, to that Spleh-
Gid day, when our Burkes, our Barrys, and
our Godsmiths, exiled by very want, from
their native shore, even on an envious soil,
wreathed the Shamrock round the brow of
faihting, Poetry, and EloGuence. But now
how even whilst / speak, who leads the
81 itiSh Senate? A Protestant Irishman -
who guides the British Arms A Protest
mt freshman And why is CathOlic Ire.
'ahd' WIN her quintupe population, station
ny ana silent! Stranger, Omen the penal
taeute, and weep tears Of blood over q, e
reason. Do not ask The bipotted ami nam
Pered renegade, who has an interest in de
ewing you, but Come, come Yourself and
IN 'fftI sNNiie the lrishman
ness, staining the sweetest scenery the eye
ever reposed on, prosecuted by the extort-
ing Mid. leman # All bsentee Landlord,
and piundered by his Synonyme, the Lay
Proctor of an Absentee incuinbent, bearing
through life but insult and injustice, and be-
reaved even OF any hope in death, by heart
rendng reflection, that he must leave his
children TO bear, Ike their father, an abD-
mi 10 l. IL.
any man who doubis il, walk out into your
streets, and see the consequences of such
system. See in IT those crowds of young APP
prenhces to the Prison, allowed by their
unfortunate parents, in despair, to learn the
rudltncnts, ard lisp the alphabet of Vice
FOR my part, have never seel one Of
those young assembages. collected for the
eternal purpose Of play and profigacy, with
out feeling within me melancholy emotion.
ferhaps have thought, within that circle
OF neglected trliers, who seem to have
been born in caprice and bred in orphanage,
there may exist some mind formed OF the
finest mould and wrought for immortality
a soul swelling with the energies, * stamp
ed with the patent of the Deity-which
might bless, adorn, immortalize and ennoble
HmpreS--Some CinCinnatus, in whose bre. st.
the destinieS or nation may lie dor rant
some Milton, pregnant with celestial FIRE"
some Curran, who, when Thrones were
crumbleG, and Dyuastics forgotten, might
stand the land mark If his Country Genus
rearing himself mid regal ruins and NJ ton
al dissolution mental pyramid in the soil.
tude OF lime beneath whose shade Kirps
might maalder, and round whose summit
Eternity must play Even in en- a circle
the young ID mos henes might have once
been found--and II mer, the disgrace and
! glory OF his age, have sung neglected
! Other States have seen such prodigics. and
| why not ireland who is there win saw
that Nature has stamped a degrading brand
upon her intellect On, ny Countrymen
let us hope, that under better AUSPICES and
soun1er policy the igsorance that thinks so
may meet its retutation Let Us turn from
the plight and view Of this wintry day. to
the fond anticipation of an happier period.
when our energies unfettered aud car
fr ends forgotten, this pr, strate Land will
stand erect among the Nations, her brow
blooming with the wreaths tf Science. and
her path strewed with the OFFERINGS of Arr
The breah Of Heaven blessing her Flag
the eXtremities of Earth Acknowledging
her Nsme-her fields waving with the
fruits OF Agriculture, her ports alive with
the varieties Of G. commerce, and her TEMPLES
rich in unrestricted pie,y above all. her
! mountains crowned with The wild wreath ri
/ Freedom, and her values vocal with the &C
stacies Of Peace!