Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-07-17

from the Sepulcllrc of Time the shade OF de-,
parted Tyranny it is not TO draw from their
dread abode the frailties OF an unfortuna;e
monarch who now sleeps with his fathers, and
the sulerings Of whose latter days may have
atoned at the bar OF Divine Mercy for the sins
which the accusing Angel will read from has
scroll to his CHARGE it is rot 30 exultin the great
moral triumph by which the Supreme Coyernoi,
of the world crowned the cause ofyourcountry
with success. No; the purpose for which YOU
listen with renewed and never languishng de-.
light TO the reading ofthis paper is of pure.
and more exalted cast Il is suied with no
vndictve recollection. 1t is degraded by no
rankin. resentment 1t is inflated with nc
VAN and idle cxultation of victory. The De
claration OF independence, in its primary pur-
port, was merely an occasional! state paper
1t was solemn exposition to the world, OF
causes which had compelled the people Of
small portion ofthe British empire 10 cast OF
the allegiance, and renounce the protection of
the British king and to dissolve their soci;l
connection with the British people. In the
annals of the human race, the separation of
one people into two is an event of no uncoIl-
mon occurrence. The successful resistance
Of people against oppression, to the dowu-
fall OF the tyrailt, and OF tyranny ITSELF is the
lesson OF many an age, and of almost every
cline II lives in the venerable records of
Holy Writ. 1t beams in the brightest pages
of prof;me history. The names of Pharaoh
and Moses, of Tarqu;n and Junius Bru!us, of
Geisler and Tell, of Christiern and Gustavus
Vasa, of Philip of Austria and William of
Orange, stand in long array through the vista
OF Time, like the Spirit OF L vii and the Spirit
of Good, in embattcd opposition to each other,
from the mouldering ages of antiquity to the
recent memory Of our fathers, and from the
burning plains OF Palestine TO the polar frost OF
Scandinavia. For the independence of North
America, there We're ample and sufficient
causes in the laws of moral and physical ma
tire. The tie of colonial subsection is com
patibc with the essential purposes of civil
government, only when the condition of the
subordinate state is from It's weakness, in
competent TO its own protection. Is the
greatest moral purpose OF civil government
the administration OF justice? And, if Justice
has been truiy defined tile constant and per-
petual will OF securing to every one his RICH,
now absurd ard nnpraciicabe is that form of
polity III which the dispenser of Justice is in
one quarter oi the globe. and he 10 whom JUS
iice Is to be dispensed is in another where
"moons revolye and oceans roll between the
order and lis execution - where time and
| space must be annihilated to secure TO every
one his right. The tie of colonial Subsection
may suit the relations between a great naval
power and the settlers of small and remote
I3ianc In tie inciplent stages OF society: but
was ii possible for British intelligence 10 ina
sine, or British sense of Justice 10 DESIRE that,
through the boundless ages of time, the
swartning myIiads of freemen, who were 10
civilizc the wilderness, and ill with human
| life the soIitndes Of this immense continent,
should receive tir mandates of their earthly
destinies from council chamber al st, James,
or bow forever in submission 30 TIE uinnipc-
tence OF st. Stephens Chapel? Are the es-
sential purposes of civil government to admin
istcr to the wants, and 60 foriift the infrnites
OF solitary man? To unite The snews of
nwnberlcss arms, and combine the councils of
multitudcs OF minds, for tie promotion OF the
weii-beng OF al ? The FIRST moral element,
| Their, OF this composition is sympathy between
the mcrnhers (which it consists the scccst
Is sympathy between the giyer aad the rccciy-
| err OF the law.
The sympathes OF mca begin with the al.
iecfions of domestic life. They are rooted il
the natural relations of husband and wife, Of
| parent and child, ofbrotller and sister thence
| they spread through the social and moral pro
| pinquties of the neighbor and friend to the
broader and more complicated relations Of
conntrymen and fellow citizens; terminating
only with the circumference Of the globe
which we nhabit, in the cu-extensive chat
| ties incident to the common nature of man.-
| To each of these relations different degrees Of
sympathy allotted by the ordinances of
nature. The sympatliies of domestic life are
not more sacred and obligatory, but closer
and more powerful, than those of neisiibor-
! hood and friendship. The tie which binds us
to our country, Is not more holy in the sight of,
God, but IT Is more deeply seated III our nature,
| more tender and cndearlDgj than that looser
INK which merely connects us with cur fellow
mortal man.
| 1t IS common government that constitutes
our country. But in that association, all the
| sympatIies of domestic life aud indted blcod.
all the moral iigaures of friendship and Of
| neighbofhood, are combined with that instinc-
| i've aud mysterious connection between man
aud physical nature, which binds the Ersf per
| ccptions 81 childhood in Il chain of sympathy
with the last grasp Of expiring age, TO fhc sp6t
OF our nativity, and the natural objects bT
! which it is surrounded. These syn1pathies
belong and arc indispensable 10 TIE relations
ordained by nature between the Individual and
his country. They dwell in the memory and
re lndellbic in The hearts Of the first settlers
OF distant colony. These are the fcrliors
under which the children of Israel SAT down
by the rivers OF Babylon, and wcpf when they
remembered Zion" These are the sYn,ra<
tlies under which they " hung their harps 10.
| on the willows" and instead of SONGS Of mirtp
exclaimed, II forget thee, O Jerusalem
let my right hand forget her crirfnine." But
these sympathies can never exist Tor a COIN
try, which we have never seen. Tacy are
transferred in The breasts of the succcedine
generations; from the county of human insti,
tuition, 10 the country other birth from the
n and of which they have only heard, to the
RI and where their eyes first opcncd to the day.
The ties Of ueighbOrhood are broken up. those