Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-09-14
dDDRESS
OF WYNDHAM ROBERTSON, ESQ

III me Cdpift: on Saturday last, in honor of the re-
cent revolution in France.
FREEMENi FELLOW CIrIzENsl
great event in the history of mankind has lust been
announced 10 us--A deed of mighty name-of glorious
import mas Just transPred tho continent of Europs
The breeZes that have for so long time come N mo
loaded only with the groans and complaints of the vic
ms oil goadng oppression, bear at length upon their
bosom the grateful Hosannas of rejoicing ireemen
france-great, generous, high-spirited France Ia,
risen in the majesty OF her strength-and as the lion
.ne de drep from his mane has shaken off her letters
he desplcable yrant who would havc forged them II
hylng-wisely, but gnominously hying-- from Justly
censed' and much and long abused people. Again Is
in tho hands of the Governcd-Again is
he ScepUe In the only hands that may Iegitimatelv
WELD 1.-THE hands OF the sovereign people,
Never,irom the beginning of time, happened so rnob
chahge with SO slight convulsion.-The founda-
IONS oil settled government upturned--a dynasty Of
thousand years overthrown--a professionally sunrems
power erected on its r,Dsand in the brief space of ,x
DAYS public confidence and public tranquility restored
order and the peaceful reign Of the laws resumed
yer hazard nothing in saying i'll millions of people
The dark cloud OF popular Indignation seemed 10 gather
On On "a sudden IL rolled mpetuously An electric
HASH burst from it, The foul vapours of TYRANNY wers
dispersed. IT dissolved in gentle and refresbny show
ers on The place beneath'-And again theLaws emery
ing rom temporary eclipse, shed through the calm and
clear atmosphere, their mild and genial light upon tho
nation ~
Amazement and Admiration attend every where nm.
on the tidings as they fly: Amazement AT The .uJdsp
ness and grandeur of the Observation-Disclosures =
the unparalleled wisdem, the high s. generous daring
ahove ais The magnanimous forbearance that disinpisb
ed its accomplishment.
nearer view of this markahIe eyent b.;.r ...
vey OF the causes that led to it--whe il NAV tend in
some deSree, TO lessen wonder, will vet serve TO in
crease our admiration and enhance our low II willie
seen 10 nave resulted fromno facCs conspiracy of de-
signing and ambitious men, impatient of restraint and
pahng Tor powerBO efervescence of Transform PAS
sions-no voicancerupion of the Spirit of liberty burst.
ing Tor moment forth from its confinement again to
subsde into the crater of Despotism deeper laid
were the foundations of this mighty Revolution Wa
snail see them based upon the eternal and mmutabla
knowledge he hand Of 7
the Pioneer OF Public happness-a truth az incomes.
hble and will say, as lovely too, in the moral world
as IN the MATERIAL that Darkness shall hy before IN.
light we shall see in proof also of the progressive
illumination of the human mind-and of the yrow
ing and resistess force of enlightened public opn-
ION thus tracing ii to deep-seated and permanent
causes we may repose in the confidence that the effect
will be as durabe the end is glorious and ee in our
hearts warmer glow OF triumph and exultation al the
people, r
Ills perhaps the condition of France in the l7b
century That The eye OF the phanthropst reposes with
the least satisfaction Ii was then that the non,l,,
voice heard before that time -aintly il il true I'm, ye,
hedrd,-through their States General was busbed into
inc fearful stiffness OF slavery without hopeIt in
these Terms that writer OF that country has
the people OF that miserable period dYou NAV ,e,
spread over the country certain savage looking
oobnae and female squad, AFFECT, balfnaked black
ened by the of the SUM- bent 10 the pround ana
who turn up, ard till the soil with invncbe consan
cy They have, it is true the faculty of speech and
when they stand erect exhibit the human counensnce
nQlif infa
wretched novels, where water black bread and roof.
are their only food. They other men the troubIs
Of sowing-ot working-even OF gathering, and thus
only entite themselves not 10 be denied sc,ntv sub
sstence out oil the bread themselves have made Grad.
ua but constant amcoraons of this most debased con
dl,on, soiteDed as time flowed on, the deep shadowne
Of this picture
Under the reign OF Loui Ilb the pr,,s b.d air.,dv
'h,d her b'ngn and hopeintpting influence over ths
ase-but 'lil no gieam Of liberty broke stbwsrt tho
profound political gloom in which the nation 8, A.. on.
velorsd. The ha II OF pas'ye obedience-tbs Gorgo,
terro,s with which a cruel and absolute tyranny 4ae
been so long iDvsstd-seem TO have repte,,ed III ibev
did not crush, the splftof the philosophers OF that dsy
who faw ull wei, and must keenly have felt the nm.
mefed degradation OF their lo', and the sbier,
'erviiude Of the peopIe.-Soms indeed ere found :.
20 lost TO the dignity Of Ietsr-s, 10 Aslter the ye,s
and 10 justify The exce'ses OF the tyrsnt But tiss
bSiuniul attribute OF the nature OF Trnfb that ar
hnds champion even in the advocate OF sfrof-tbst
her cause IL vindicaed even by her asaiIantot eve
~ ate mpt 10 sustain and justify fsebocd only
10 exhibit II TO more naked dsorniiy, and EXPOSE N 4.
more general dates'a'ion.Thus the forts 10 sdvsnss
and recommend Tyranny, served but to recommend
and to vindicae the great, and then onrendeJ cause
Of Human Liberty
Nor in The diffusion Of knowledge only wa. N.
reign Of Louis 14;b promoive OF the ultimate rpmnh
OF free principles. The rage OF coDquss which me-.
sessed hun, could not, fortunately Tor after times ho
unhappily for hs own be tra,ied but AT The n,,.
Of vast aud lavi txpef d ures OF money His imn..
date successors Inherited with The crown the same ma
and in'stuae desire Il quest wv ponIy & wassG.
expended The Immense sums extotted. year 10,
year.ffom people, The very source Of whose v.,,h
their labor drawn also into the vorte oftbessn
lhiDeepi oui iaiai and vicen', elects. At length uu,