The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1814-01-06
THE INDIANS.

ne F'esiuehe speaks with great ercpha
SIS OF the cruelty Of the enemy in enlisung
the savages into war with a nation des-
rous ct mutual emulation in mitigating its
calanities" And for these enormi,ies" he
ADDS, 1.-THE enemy are equally responsible,
whether with the power to prevent them
they want the will, or with the knowledge
of want Of power they still avail them
selves of such Instruments"
One would have supposed, that it was G.
nough tor two civilized nations to have at
lacked each other according 70 the laws oil
Civilized war; 10 have striven to have psiti.
gated its caiamities by all the acts of ten
cefness IN their power; 20 have spared the
captive, & TO have bound up his wounds. Blu,
the history or the present war is a history o,
atrocities Oh the part of our enemy, which
VIII leave spot in her own annals, and, a
thorn In the hearts of our people
On the seas, her representatives have
stripped our officers of their side-arms. their
instruments, their money and their clothe;
whilst soe have exposed our lives to save
their own, while Decatur has generously re-
fused the sword of Garden, and BaiHbriipe
has sought and surrendered each piece of
plate and article of wardrobe which belong
ed To fIyslop.
Their conduct on the sea-board is of tvs
sue with the res. What woo6man or fish.
erman has escaped their rapacityl They
nave stript our coops of their fowls, cur
smoke honses IF their bScon, our dpellings
OF their furniture, while the flames of French
town and Havre-de- @ race, have reflected
to the skies g the tender mercies'' of the
bnlwark of our holy reiision.''
II there be one, who still loves to chaunt
the praises of our enemy, let him turn his
eye to the western frontier, and then declare.
whether "tbe chivalry of England is not
exGpguisbed."
me page of history still bushes for the
employment of boodhounds against he Ma
r"oiIs OF Jamaica. Whether III Ireland or
IN indostan. whether against Christian or
Gentoo people, the means of cruelty have
been employed, while humanity and religion
have been trampled under foot. What in
ssrniSents has not England condescended to
emPieYt She has subsidized the Swiss; she
has let loose the Hessians upon our fnrefa.
TIERS, and to complete the group of her mar
csnary allies, she has explored the Western
w iuerness OF America for savages, not less
ferocious than the wild beasts OF the forest
10 gut her rapacity and her thirst of blood
When the future historian shall come to
recount the Incidents OF this war, he will
biush To describe savage race. fighting by
the side of one Christian people apaips, sao.
ther truth will compel him to depict that
baTbarous enemy with all the symbols of
their cruelty, the yell of the tiger, the vultur
scream, the cannibal appetite, the tona.
nawk and the scaipirg knife, thirstne for
tht blood OF the captive and the infant He
VIII describe this inhuman enemy, thus &C
coutred with the INSTRUMENTS of destruction
assocIa ed in the ranks and maintaining the
cause q the English people. The heiehts
OF Queenstown, the ruins Of Chicago and
the banks of the Raisis, will successively
pass 10 review before him IS the theatres
on which these rruel'ies have been exhibit
ed. he will present the unfortunate prison
er, stripped by the scaping- knife, bleeding,
staggering in agony. the m OK of his feroci-
onA enemy, without one soothing voice near
to cheer him amidst the pangs Of dissolution
-or driven Ike brute, stripped of hi,
eio'hing, laid bare to the incleTn .uoy Of the
seasons. FINISHED and d, ing by inches He
VIII have to describe the murder OF Ameri
cans, under flag of truce nj herto deem d
sacred among all civilized nations. And
when he mes to pursue the remains of our
nlang "a countrymen, even beyond the vale
OF death, he will be compelled 10 confess
that no green sod was laid, nor a spade of
earth cast upon their ashes, but that their
remains have been thrown upon the ground
to be torn and devoured by hogs.
we have been so often accust med Of late
TO near OF these enormties that h sense of
Indignation is almost extinct In cur bosoms
but pros'erify will catch fire at the abomi
nabie record. They will say, =" Why should
'HSSN Suolh''leS De PractI.ed upon any enc
my Were the American peop savaees /?
Were they wild beasts the outcasts of s3ci.
ely, Invested ofihe form & feelings Of men ,
VAST retaliation for any crueIties that
were practsed on their part? Did then
tomahawk and scalp the prisoners the wo.
men and the children Or was the cqnse
IN which they were engaged, So abominably
vie, as to Justify the employment of any
means whatsoever for theic destruction p'.
When posterity shall come to answer these
questions; when they shall turn to the con-
dncf OF theAmericans during he war; when
they shall open tbe history Of orr wrongs
and behold us contending for cur own rights
only, those rights e Commerce which provi-
dence has given to all nations or those
rights OF persons which all governments ar.
especially bound to protect--it is impos,i.
b e 'hat they Shall not cover the British
arms with execrsticn ana reproach. Their
symPaihes will be enlisted on our eide
And they will exclaim, with President Ma
Olson, " For these enermities lee the enemy
be held equally responsible, whether with
the pow s { . prevent them they want the
will, or ". Il the knowledge Of want of
power. they still avail themselves of such
Instruments. Eng.
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