Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-06-17
VOL. XXI. NO. 12.


our prescription was the signal for the vors
that awaited your devoted country will not
dwell on the deplorable scenes that ensued iber-
ty fled from land polluted by crimes committed
IN her sacred name: for, if that first of blessings
must be conquered by courage, virtue and wisdom
can alone preserve it. When, after lapse of years,
you were restored to France, you found her in the
hands oil that extraordinary man, who had been de-
signed 10 rule Tor while her dcstinies and those OF
Europe. France immersed in sea of glory.
sle was no longer Tree. You reoiced in TIE sue
cesses obtained over foreign enemies: Won admired
all that was great: you approved all that was good
But the honors, the dignies, the splendor the glo
RES oil the new government you s,ernly refused to
share. The right OF suffrage was limited TO i few,
electors designated by the Executive the lepisa,re
was dumb, personal liberty insecure that of the
press annlhllated, all the powers were conferred in
one man. you withdrew into honorable retire
ment, where, surrounded by belo, ed fsnilv vou
were, for near fourteen years, a pattern of every
domestic, as you had been model of every civic
virtue. The baubles of ambition never were the
object OF your pursuit; and, in the simplicity OF
your heart, you did not even think that YOU made
sacrifice: but there still remained one 10 he made
to your principles
Your only son, the worthy nheritor of your
name and OF your virtues, he whom W rejoice 10
see by your side, he fighting under the banners
of The Emperor; they Were those of France FIe
NS''ANa
himself IN remarkable manner. Arapid promo
tion seemed to await him, career of honors and
glory 10 be opened 10 him. He bore your name:
that career was at once stoPped; those brilliant
prospects were shut up--snd for life And that
last sacrifice was made by him and you bv YOU,
the tenderest OF fathers, rather than TO give Che
powerful sanction of your name to system dos
tructive OF that cause to which you lad devoted
your life.
And yet, when the Colossus fell, willis fatierors
betrayed or fled, you, who had resisted him vhen
in the height OF his power, you then only remember
ed that TO his first victories YOU had been indebted
for your release from the prisons of Omullz And
you were the first TO suggest those means of saeiy
which were provided in time, and Which had i, nos
been for strange nfatuation on his part, and for
shameful ueachery on that of false friends. would
have preserved him from the fate which at last a.
awaited him.
When the free sufIrages of your feow-cilizcns
again called you on the public scene, no one doubt
ed the part you would act Vulgar minds alone
could have recollected former persecution or even
neglect; whilst your heart beat in your bosom. YOU
could net appear otherwise than as the defender of
the rights of the people. Yet age might have cool
ed your ardor; disappointment might have damned
your primitive hopes But when the veteran Of the
cause of liberty, in both hemspheres, again came
forth in the defence of that cause for winch he had
fought and bled, for which he had suffered Chains
all the energy-all the purity-all the freshness of
youth
Such is the faint outline of life exclusively de-
voted to the OF man, OF an active life of f,y
years, unstained by vice, and wlicl has not cen
disigured by single act ofinconsstency Your
career has been less arduous than brilliant
But after many tolls, severe trials.-uniust
prosecutions, and domestic affections, it has
pleased Divine Providence to grant 20 the even
ing OF your days the reward most gratifying 10
your mind.
You left, Sir, infant America still bleeding from
the wounds of her Revolutionary contest without
| commerce, without wealth, without credit, without
an efficient general government. Aferan absence
of forty years, you have been permitted 10 revisit
her shores; and you find her already in the strength
OF manhood, sustaining distinguished rank amongst
the nations OF the earth; the asylum of the oppress-
ed and OF the unfortunate of every nation and of
cry description, having Obtained height OF pros
perty, unequaled, within 20 shor. period in the
annals o. mankind Her villages are nov populous
cities her ships cover the ocean new sta e. d We
by magic, arisen out of the wilderness her pro-
gress in manufactures, in arts, ia internal improve
meats, latterly in science AID literature, has kept
pace with that oil her wealth and of her trehled
/ population. We lad been threatened with an in
fallble dissolution ofour Union; and thirteen indie
pendent States seen, voluntarily relinuuishiDr
portion of their sovereignty, and yesting gene
raj government with all the powers necessary for
the common delence an act of wisdom and patri--
oiiSm OF which, extraordinary as it may appear,
history had not vet afforded an example.
! The prosperity, the long peace they have eriov-
! ed, has not eneryated the Americans The pres
ent generation have proved worthy other fathers {;
| your companions in arms You 20 hence 10 erect
a Monument on Bunkerss Hill. on the spo where
the British first learned what resistance thew lad
to expect from people who had willcd 10 be iree
AID lara f-,,r, "a n d.
ofan exploit not surpassed in this age of military
W onders Of an extraordinary and complete VIC
tory, gained over veteran troops superior In num-
bers, by band Of citizen soldiers led bv a self
I Taught HERo, one Of Themselves one Of tie peo-
Fple. At the same time, PENNSYLVANIA farmer.
IN series OF well fought actions, was sustaining
the honor OF the American arms on our Nor hern
frontier. And, with a still greater disparity of
forces, our intrepid Navy were showing The world
that, even on h,r own element, he 0,eu,t quccn
! was not inNiucble. This magnificent spectacle f.
| ords the highest reward TO your abors aio, al,
because that prosperity, those blessi IS which we
are permitted to enjoy The result o! our free in
stitulions. those Institutions, Withdrawing from
the control OF government Tire imprescripuberI. hts
Of men in their individual capacities, have eft to
each the liberty Of conscience tie liberty Of ex-
pressing and Publishing his opinions tie free ex,
ercise his aculies tie unres'rHhcj expansion
Of his intellect combining the operation OF gov
eminent to its legitimate objects, the projections Of
individuals against the cupidity and The passions OF
others that of the community against foreign a.
erosion those institutions have vested ali the
powers necessary for those purposes, ia govern
ment emphatically of laws, in pure representative
governments Of the simplest form, founded on fre-
quent elections aud on universal suffrage. The
fruits Of that system before the world and none
Of those evils have hcfsicn as which had been
deemed the necessary consequence Of popular Gov
ernments.
Religion has preserved all her BENIGN Influence