Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-09-07

vory war of existence, all the deep sentiments
connected with the past are liable to be violated
tn UNFOLD the detested and pernicious sway OF
strangers.
There was wanting single aggr awaiting circum-
stance to render the partition OF this hne coun'
try more odious, and, unhappi,y, this too is to
he enumerated among its sufericgs When Po-
land was subdued, by far the larger portion OF
her territory became subject to people less adj
vanced in civilization than our own citizens.-
She was, thus, excluded from the only soace OF
defeat. and was doomed to witness the gradual
decay of those arts and opinions which form the
basis of national prosperity.
Against the Injustice of their lot, and the fur
Their accumulation of their manifold wrongs. the
Pole, have arisen before God and man. They
Aforementioned their sufferngs, they have asserted
their rights; and nublv have they staked every
worldly interest on the issue. Under the most
adverse and dsheartening circumstances, they
have shown themselves worthy of their high de-
scent. Cut of from the sea, -envirOncd by
specious ncutrality,-and deserted by all Out
their courage, and the sacred justice OF their
cause, they have elevated the struggle from an
insurrection to a war We make no appeal IN
the spirit of propagantism; Warsaw, the govern
ment of the country and all the essential immu-
mites Of sovereign power are already reganed;
and before Russia can ever again rule in Poland,
Russia must again conquer Poland.
The coustancy with which this heroic nation
has clung 10 its recolections, its martial prompt
itude in rising in its own defence, and its entire
fraukness aud dignity, since it has resumed the
sword, excite our esteem. The Kingdom is a
camp; its men are in the field, its women in the
hospitals. While in his own case, neither per.
son nor means are withheld from the public ne
cessities, the Pole disdains deception; he sees
the danger; he proclalms 1t, and lie meets it as
becomes the Pole.
People Of America! Of all the nations of the
earth YOU are most favored. You dread no enc
mics; you anticipate no famines; YOU hold at
command every bounty which beneticent Pro-
violence has avished upon man. The self deni-
al and hardships of your ancestors are requited
to their descendants ina tenrold return of peace,
security and happiness. TO you. then. do we
apply, to contribute from your abundance to
the urgent wants Of this wrOngcd nation. Remote
from the scenes of this hemisphere, you are not
familiar with the great advantages you possess,
nor with the moral power YOU WELD The reli-
gious emancipation Of millions has quite recently
been effected, more by a strong exhibition of
your feelings, than from any other cause. Your
great example is silently wearing away the foun-
da1ons of despotism. That moral ascendancy,
of which others boast. you exercise, and exercise
only, because you are the the true repositories of
the prosecuted rights of human nature. BE not,
then, unworthy of your trust, by coldly withhold
ing yourselves from an exhibition of your real
sentiments Remember that not freeman falls
in the mast remote quarter of the world, that you
do not lose brother who is enlisted in your
own noble enterprise. Your gold will assuage
many grefs, heal many wounds, purchase much
relief from suffering and sorrow; but your SYM
patty will be dearer than all. Let it not be said,
that while cold and heart!ess traflickers in hui
man rights are combining their means to over
whelm twenty millions of men struggling and
worthy to be free. that thirteen millions animated
by the same qualities, looked coldly on. because
an ocean rolls between them. But for this ocean,
you too would be assailed, that another pernicous
example might be destroyed. Thousands of
bleeding hearts look to the success of this appeal
less in the wish to benefit by your liberality,
than in the noble hope of being cheered in sue
cess by your acclamatIons, or solaced by your
sympathies in defeat.
We have put the case of Poland simply befnre
you. Her cause is obviously Just, as to require
no aid from the embellishments of language. or to
need any labored appeal to your charities. We
do not conceal from ourselves the delicate rea-
tons which exists between our own country and
Russia. We do not deny on the contrary we
have pleasure in publishing, that Russia. by her
wisdom, foresight, and iberaity, has established
lasting claims on the friendship and esteem of
America. There are numerous interests to keep
them friends; there are more which might easily
render them allies. We do not accuse Nicholas
Of tyranny, for we know he is the subject OF cir
cumstances, of which Poland is unhappily the
victim. As our philanthropy is not quickened
by the national interests or national dread, We
can do justice equal to the assaant and the as.
sailed. In this exemption from personal ACCUSE
ton, we have pleasure IN including the two mild
Princes, who, in common with the Gar, have
been the inhertors of false system entaiIed by
former reigns. Bat while we revolt at hesprng
Injuries on others, who may find themselves en-
thraled by opinions different from our own, we
bow to the majesty of truth. The wrong exists.
and we should be false to our origin, our princi-
pies, \ that mild religion 10 which we are nurtur-
ed, could we hesitate between Poland and her enc.
mics.
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