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o. 349 [1836 .1pr. 6].'J'. J. GREEN, r~E\ ORLEAN . LOUISIANA). "TO THE FRIEXDS OF LIBERTY THRO GHO T TIIE WORLD !" 02 TO THE FRIENDS OF LIBERTY TIIROUGHOUT THE WORLD! It ha pleased the government of my adopted country to transfer me, a voluntary citizen soldier in her cause, to my present responsible tation, and order me to my native country, to a k for, and procure by any lawfn1, rightful and honourable measure, means of prosecuting our war of National and Religious Emancipation, against a cruel and unrelenting Tyranny. And shall it be told me, that my native country, le t it hould give offence to a people whose manners, cu toms and language are unknown to her, will be forced to an act of inhumanity and injustice to her own offspring T- Jo! •I will believe it not !-I cannot believe that the country whose heart and purse bled so freely for Poland and Greece-the country which has been the home of the brave, and the a ylum of the oppressed of all nati<>ns !-the country which has ever watched and watered with tender care, Liberty's young growth at home and abroad. That, that same people will now lend a deaf ear to 01,r upplications- our unavoidable and absolute wants. To believe it, would be a ~ro s and wanton lander of the character which has so ju tly placed her in the foremost rank of ations of the Earth. To believe it, would be to charge her with a low selfishne s, unknown to her high and generous spirit. To believe it. would be to brand her of a poor cowardice which none dare say-I come, then freemen of my native land to a k, to bea of .you, i.n the name of the highc t authority of human law- charity, hitmanity, justice, and right. -In the name of every tie which binds blocd to blood. for means of pro ecuting our war of Liberty, against a tyranny as despotic as the worst of human pa sions can engender. Will it be denied? have you not precedents enough¥ Timoleon, in uccouring the Syracusion : the Stadtholder of "Holland, in opposing the oppression of hi own sub- jects, by James II. and another, of which Aniericans need not be reminded. Another, which it were base ingratitude to forge~-I mean, when France received upon her own bosom the blow aimed at your national existence,-then, my countrymen, in the name of every thing noble and magnanimous in the bosoms of men ; in the name of every thing generous and high minded in the practice of nations; are we, the children of your loins, to be turned from your doors as rebels and agitators, for not bowing with meekness to oppression, unsuited to any, but the Semi-Barbarians who seek to inflict them upon us'/ Great God forbid! Shall this people, whose Congres but a few years since, with an unanimity unknown in the whole history of Legislation, extended the hand of nationality to the far distant and unknown people of Columbia, Guatamela, Peru and Chili, now refuse to cheer u:sroadside.
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