Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-12-03


through tenderness towards their suffer
ings, be allowed. But that future ou;ra-
ges should plainly be prevented, by anu
Ell force, not by negotiation and that
the seyerest vengeance should be infiict-
ed on the robbers thcyery first time they
attack vessel belonging 10 any poNer
not formally at war with then This is
the least which the law of nations elbows
Us to do. But an immediate attack upon
the nest oil the pirates, upon Aigiers Itself.
seems the most fit step 10 be iaher and
will be justified by the very first actcfNio-
lence which they shall commit. One of
the evil effects OF these inauspicions cen
Yenticns, is that they prevent us rom pro-
ceedng against tne place ,Dliil some such
aci otNioionce Is perpeirated9ith the con-
nivance of the Dey'S government.
The safety and tacility oian enterprise
against the pirates, can admit Of no
doubt. MIR. Croker explicitly states TIE
works OF Algiers to be mere bHghear
and the force cfibe whole state 10 be fri
fling i'll the extreme. They are now a.
war with the funlsans, who set them at
defiance and the iribvs OF Arabs IL he
Immediate vicinity of the city, hold lie
power of the Dey i'll equal contempt, BE-
NyIDg contributions on his subjects within
sight of his walls. The officers alluded
TO above, asserted distinctly in the house
of commons, that two sail of the Inc
would at once put an end to the In:oioi-
able nuisance which we call the Algeri!Ie
government, and that without any risk
whatever of failure. 1t is further 10 lie
remembered, that this government means
only band Of three or icGr thousand
Turkish Jannissaries, who tyrannlze over
the native hlgerires as mach as over
the christians WHO fall into their lands:
who chosethe Dey out OF their own boiy
and are so lar from submitting 10 any re-
gular or hereditary authority, that tie
present chief s sons serve as common
soldiers in the corps from which he him
self was taken. To put down this exc.
cradle dynasty would be fully as great a
blessing to lis own subjects, as to those OF
the neighboring states.
In Justification of such a measure, we
trust that enough has already been urged.
few words only are required to show,
that without gross Inconsistency, we can
not neglect this duty. We stood fore
most among the champions OF America.
and oppOsers of the slave trade. But tie
niseries endured by the unhappy negroes
are not greater than those of the Italians,
Greeks and Spaniards, whose lot has been
depicted in the course of these pages
Indeed, the slave trade ofthe Africans ia
the Mediterranean is considerably more
than that OF the Europeans IN the Allan
tic; worse ar least III its kind, though
much less extensive. A moments re-
Election may convince aiiy enc Of this
tor IN the former case, the oppressor is the
barbarian, and BARBARIAN ci the most sa-
wage and unprincipied cast whereas, in
the latter. with all Its horrors, we must at
least admit, that the sufIerings of the
slaves are lighter, both because his mas
ter is more civilized, and because subiec-
ton IS less severe to those who are less
ightened.-While we aye not ever sa-
tisfied with doing all we can 10 prevent our
wnpeople from trading i'll African slaves,
but are most righieously sounding the
cry against this accursed traffic, III every
tongue and i'll every cline, 1T is prodi
gious inconsistency TO permit Africans 10
carry on worse commerce IN file bloG,i
OF Europeans, and those who have never
bought or sold single negro from the
beginning OF time. Against this abomi-
nation, our Whole force should be bent, if
necessary but when single blow could
annlhilaie ii, and we have only 10 Obtain
the consent of other nations whom we do
notrequiTe TO cooperate with Us, whatcx-
cuse can be imagined for our ncther STIR
ring ourselves, nor moving them in the
cause There is something mGustrous in
this departure from our own principlcs.
and from the example set by us elsewhere.
not only in the west, but i'll the recent de
position oftiie Kandian tyranf.