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FROM THE ENQUIRER.
french influence,
No. 111.
It has been Laid “ that all the
fentiment* and measures of the
republicans, which have been
falfely aferibed to the secret a.
genev of French Influence, may
be eafiiy explained by one of
• tinfa: roitniglTtl
i. “ That ihofe who have car- j
ried the rile of this Influence ;
up a? high as the American re* j
volution, had completely forgot
ten to aferibe the feelings, which
we then entertained for France j
—to the aid which we had re
ceived from her in a levcn years'
war for liberty :
J
2. 44 1 hat thole who had tra- i
ced it in the Icntimcnts ol the
republican party towards the j
French revolution, have artful.
Ir fuppolcd the fame lemjmcnts i
to exill at the prelenttime— they !
have translened all ibe fenii- :
ments which we entertained for j
France at the aulpicious periods I
of her revolution, when ihe was :
ru ggiing for her liberties, to
ihe delpotifm which has (incc
lupervened in that country :
And that,
3. “ Ihofe who now pretend
to trace it in the sentiments of
the party or in the atts of the
lalt adminiflration, arc guilty of J
the extreme folly of aferibing i
thele sentiments and meaiures j
to the influence of France, which j
have been lorced upon us as !
the means ol reareli ana pre- ?
fervalion againlt the multiplied ;
wiongs of G. Britain. That !
thole measures, which wc have !
adopted as the mea*is of refill- ;
ing Britilli encroachments, have J
been lirlt artfully condrued into I
a hatred for Britain, and next
into a love for France,”
When thele United States firfl
emerged into being, what were
the relations which they bore as
*
10 G. Britain and France ? The
lirll was known to them as a
bitter and unrelenting enemy,
enforcing her claims of opprcl
lion bv all ihe terrors of war,
and tracking the bosom of our
foil with denotation and blood.
, Fiance was known to us as a
mimliermg ally, confirming our
own wcaknels by her ftiength,
and commiflioning her ships,
her treasures, and her troops to
our aid m the midll of an ardu
ous conlli&l for the defence of
our liberties—No matter, that
it has since appealed that the
Cabinet of Verfeills was lecretly
governed by the moll intcrelleci
and felfifh motives —that their
only inducement was to tear the
brightell jewel from the diadem j
of G. Biitain. These motives i
were secret, they were unknown '
J f \
9
to our countrymen —the gene
roflitv of their conduct, and the
benefit of their aid, were all that
we fnw and all that we felt.—
Uuder Inch circumltances, it
was impoirible for the people of
this country, during the war,
not to feel a greater predilection
for the conduit ol Fiance than
that of our enemy. These sen
timents were exprefFed by the
people—in the resolutions of
congrefs —in tbofe of the ft ate
Lcgiflatutts—not by a small or
(Ingle party, but by every man
who fell for the liberties of his
country, Sc wa* grateful for the
HOLD THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE.” SJlQkeSpcarg.
•frefources, which France had
; supplied to us. The caule was
\ common ; the effect, the (enti •
I merits, which it inlpiird. were
j alio common. Therft was no
I man firing thefeiiays, Who was
prefump’ious endt'gh t*> w hii.
per a suspicion, tW th?re was
j a Fmgle American Am foli to the
dignity of his ccuniv, as t\> de
sire to reduce her V) the fame '
\ 4 * ** • •
j 'vc had borne to Grcbt Britan.
* No— this infinuattoo|\as refer,
j ve d for the prelrnt imes, arm
for a Brittfh EmifFanf.\ N or was
| France ever aiubiitniA enough
| to form inch it
greated height to whfch thecti- i
pidily of her monar« j ever as-i
; cended, was to auemit to tram*
‘ met the United State Jin the use j
! of the filhenes, and ir] the navi- j
j gation of the Miflilliu>.i, in the
formation of the treay of peace
j with G. Britain. 1 iis irrtrigne !
evidently proved, tl&t we had ;
previoufl y repo fed too much
faith in thedtsinterefifd integrity
of the Court of Verlji!ie< ; but j
the firninefs and fag?ci?y of our ;
comnaiffioners, Meffs Franklin.
Adams and Jay cafiJy defeated j
all their machination*.
Tbefe lentimfnts towards 1
France were from j heir very na
ture destined to a /hort and pre. ‘
carious exigence, i The motives
by which the Coujt of Verleilles 1
had been actuated;, were to be !
canvafled as loorvas the imme- !
diate sense of tie benefits of j
their aHi dance Had expired.— |
*-’ J —-• ; ■-*. •„ ■ «»•*— .. —— )
of the treaty of peace were to be ;
known and delpifed. Bcfides, j
new and impoitant cates were
to faceted the turmoils, <te lym- !
pathies of war. The people of j
the United States were to be j
called on to secure, by a free j
conditution thole liberties which :
their revolution had acquired.
All ihofe duties, which are reci
procally and impartially due to j
all foieign powers, were to be
appreciated & relpected. “En.
einies in war, in peace Friends,”
was to be adopted as the prin.
cipal motto of our government.
With the tomahawk, we should
have buried atl our relenttnents j
against G. Britain ; if she had
not been continually opening 1
the cicatrizing wounds of our !
country, and they were contin ■
ually bleeding afrelh. j
Ere these causes however had
been produ&ive of their natu
ral effefct, a new and mod adon. !
idling event burU forth upon the
j world. France, that very France
| whole trealures and troops had
j been nfed to advance the pro**
j grefs of the American revoluti
j on—was deflined to undergo a
j revolution of her own. Some
J of thole very Frenchmen, who j
1 had fought on the plains of A- 1
meiica, were fecn guiding the
Heps of reformation in their own
country. The fame generous
motives, which had actuated the j
i republicans of America, were
J fecn to animate the reformers of
j the Eadern Hemifpherc. In
both, liberty was the boon at •
i dake. The sane hatred of op* 1
preffion, the fame antipathy to
Kings anddefpnt*, the fame dil- |
polition to render the people the
lource of (overeign power, the
lame anxiety to dtlfufe the bid- j
sings of liberty and light, were
(eeu to infpirc the Brillota and j
Candorcets of France, as had
;previoufly inspired the Frank
lin<. the Wafhingtons and the
Jedfrlons of this new world.
I he right of every country to
regulate its own internal con
cerns M»as contemned by the
i P r »nces of Europe. Thole blood
bounds, who were flefhed with
! the Partition of Pdand, were
anxious to employ ttieir blood I
* iOTK> ' "pon lire rich tarcafe of
regenerated France, ihc atro.
clous plot was sealed by the trea
ties of Pilnitz and of Pavj a;
: Auffria, PrufTia and Spain uni.
; ted their rapacious troops, and
the fubfidics of Britain were col.
letlcd to “ urge on the wedge of
Wrn - ’ The frontiers of France
* c,e invaded by the duke or
runlwick and his myrmidons- 1
Her coalls v c ,- e jj nec j j )y Briiifii
aotzers, who lh t most pro _
found contempt m* c righls ot
neutrals, were guilty of m jf,.
erable absurdity of attempt
to ffarve a whole people into
fuhjugation.
Is it necessary to expatiate up
on the lentiments of the Ameri. i
can prople, as they contempla
ted these events ? On their fym
pathy with the caule of France,
btcaufc they believed it to be
the cause of liberty ; their de
testation of ihe wars of the prin.
ces, because they appeared to
be the wars of despots and op •
prefFors ? Every noble-minded
citizen of the U. S* felt what
was due to the occasion. The!
*'“* —*—»*-« «*»«.■ al ihr Deoole
bore ample tclfnnony to* fijciTir
interelldnefs of their attachment
to the caule of freedom. Woe
be to that man’s difeernment
who will aferibe the diffusion of
these feelings to the secret agen-.
cy of French Influence! Whoj
will dare to aferibe such an In, 1
lluencc to Walhington, to the
Senate of the U. S. in ’96, to
the prclem Chief Justice of the
U. s. or even to Timothy
Pickering himfelf in the year
’9l ? Yet have each of these
borne witness to the purity of
those feelings, which were then
eniertained for France :
“ Above all,” fays General
i Walhington on receiving the
French colours from ihe hands
of Mr Ade.ton the i(t Jan. 179 G
“ the French revolution has'
, produced the deepest solicitude
1 as well as the highest admirati*!
on. To call your nation brave |
j wei*e to pronounce bill common (
praile. Wonderful people! ages
to come will read with aftonilh
ment the hi/fory of your brilli
ant exploits.”
The Senate of the U. S. re
echoed the latne sentiments.
The Chief J uft ice of the U* S«.
in the sth Vol. of Washington’s
■ Life, declares that “ the friends
j of the administration” (the fede.
ral party) “ however decided
might be their determination to
lupport their own government,
j in a controversy with any nati.
1 on whatever, felt all the parti,
alities foi that republic, which
the correlpondence (Mr. Jcffcr.
j lon’s) exprefled.”
But what /hall we think of
| the grave, the prudent, the Bri.
1 tifii Mr. Pickering who on
1 the 2d of Ocfober
[ I’alk to the fix nations, expref.
fed the following feuiimenit ?
The French being an iniel
ligent people, loon learnt bow
MONDAY, October JO, ISOf.
1 1 w conducted our btifinef., and
« trc plealcd with it. When
; ,h 7 wem ihey wifbed
■ |o have thi'ir bulinelj managed
1! n llk<: manner by>ife cottulel.
: lor> of (heir own {hoofing, and
! "' oul ' 1 nc> longer fubmii to the
: 'Fanny ol .he King. They ac
cordtngly .|„ew him down and
cm off hi. bead, «h», brotbcri,
enraged all the neighboring ty*
combined toge.her and raised
SrealanDies of regular foldierj
10 oblige the French again to
be governed by a Ki,tg._ A ,
the I-reitli were the only alliej
2 n,',M‘" Cd S ' a,C "’ ,hc l! r»ilh
«mgA; Imcounlellon thou.ht
wuild be a good li^ 0 U
jc*«lack s fls, ar<a me to
| jm umq their tyranny
the UrtJ view the armed vcflelar
of the Ring Hole oar property
on the dcat waters, having tat
ken hunUeds of our vellels la
den witfc goods to the value
of many hundred thousand dol
<\minot content with rob.,
bing u\*>f our property, they
put oitr vamen on board their
armed veU.|s, and coinp e J| c d
them to fighyigainft our ftt en d«
'he French.”\
After thi«
to charge the augment of the
republicans for the Krcnch revo*
lution, to the agencyS~>f French
Influence ? Who wnj arraign
Meflrs. Marshal and Pickering
as French partisans ?
i
Mc-i.lclferfon, who Wii die
famous Talk of T. Pickering,
no doubt felt for the cause of
France, becaule he believed it
to be the cause of human liber
ty. He felt a due indignation
i against the conduct of G. Bri
ll tain—her detention of the Wes.
tern polls—the inllammato.
ty speeches of Lord Dorcheller
|to the Indians, which called
iup even Pickering’s ire ihiti
| robbery of our Ihipj and car»
! goes He had traced the reu
! fpetiive aggteiTions of Great
Britain and France on the high
Teas--be had leen that t’he for«
! mer were firll in their e/tillenco
! and more atrocious in tjheirex
! tent —that the French iltrrete of
: May 9th 179a was fever al weeks
1 polterior to the Convenltion be.
1 tween his Britannic iMajelty
! and the Lmprcls of Kuljia, lign
ed at London on ihe 125th of
March, in which they / recipro
| cally engage to uk/; ail the
means “ in their pow/cr for in
juring the commerce <Af France’*
-'•and that Lord Gi/enville bad
explicitly avowed ti/ Mr. Pink
ney, our minilterNn London*
that the cantuies t/d neutral v c L . •
fels as directed b y the Britilh,
order of June Bth / 1793,“ were
fully under It ood by both Ruflia
& Great Britain; to be within the
intention of thr Convention be
tween them.” But though Mr.
I Jeflerfon wa- duly fenbble of
al* lh,s “Here din the cause of '
liberty, andt/H this jult indigna.
tion at the t;onduct of Great
Britain, yet i/ j relpect has
lie compion jtted the rights
imerells of hia own country r
What facn did he make
to the cau' e ofr-France, whilst
he was th . Secreuty ol State P
Are they t 0 5 e luund in his
perttnaci jus ar ,d triumphant op
position to the intolence of
Genet > his rthllance lothe fit-.
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