The Eagle, or, Dartmouth centinel — Hanover, N.H., 1797-07-24 00:00:00, page 1

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Who is the greatest Slave?
MANKIND are, generally, as much
mistaken refpe&ng real flowery,
perhaps, as any fubjea.l pronounce the
greatest Monarch the greatest Slave ; and
, man may be all his lifetime, bound to
servitude, and yet be free— Pygmalion',
that great Monarch and cruel Tyrant was
so great a Have, that he dared to trust
ho daft of mankind ; nor did he even
dare to eat or drink but ofhis own pro
viding, prepared by his own hands.—
He lived entirely upon fruits, roots, and
herbs, which he, with hi; own handa,
, sowed and gathered in his garden, and
drank nothingbut water, which he drew
from a fountain inclofed in his palace,
to Which no other person had amis;
and,lie always caused Aftrabe, for whom
he put away his wife, to eat and drink,
before he dared to taste any thing. He
always took the lives of his fubje&,and
even of his guards upon the flighted sus
picion, and, as he dared to trust no man
, so no man dared to trust him ; they sighed
in fecretandhid themselves to avoid his
cruelty. They alway fought his life, as
the only certain method to preserve their
own; y'eQhat%ra#z,with all his caution,
was poisoned to death, by Aftrabe, who
had so prepared herfelf, that though &
firft partook of "the food, in which.
Ie had Vound means to convey the
re^ ^ WteW^Q no In!
jury.—Though there was not a man in
all Tyre, who wa) not in perpetual dan^
\ ger of being murdered by this Tyrant ;
they were every moment contriving
feme new conspiracies against him—
and even; ' the principal officers of the
/court, were ready to dip their hands in
his bloods —He was so jealous of his el
dest son, that he was impatient to fut
ceed him, that he put him to de,th; and
hisfecond son. was loft at sea, by a ffiip
wreck ; all which was brought about by
the perfidy arid inhumanity of Aftrabe
who had corrupted and suborned, the
navigators and witnesses, to eftft the
horrid tragedy!
Alas! how various and dregful. am,
the miseries of life ! what horrid infat
uations impel mankind ! wh do I&
precipitate death, which is always neaff
Why thouid they add biuernefs to lift,
Which is already too bitter ? In this,
great family, why are wars created, of
which the brutes are alhamed ? Some ty
rant sighs for a new appellation ; and
for this he would lay waste tte whole
earth.—He would became a coriquerer;
and for this he kindles a flame:, which
defol,, rhe workL-Tta, a wrerched
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; the Q,teff gm
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world are so „fopi,„
deems glory. How vile the perversion
of so factya a name ! bpw deferfag,
^M^^^*^
are <i,an rotn.anu ,iec ever, iuc~ I
ceeding age, by which they hoped to
be admired, hold them in contempt.
Men in authority fh^d not only M|
plore the evils of war and oppression ; |
but they fold, fry, endcavo^to I
mitigate them.—They fhonld always
diffribute among the poor instead of&fy
staffing them more,.&fe&gs which
will ma etem,in ome mail degree|
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PO L ITICS, AND THE BELLED
, - Quid vzrum, atquz nictirs, curo.-—lmpartial Truth and 1%
t,dernef & and friendship, inflead <&
rififing their comfort and even their
"',> '° gratify' their own luffs and am
bition.—Laws and government should
always be mild, easy to be undeiftood
and obeyed, and when broken, those
measures should be adopted, which will
most probably reclaim the offender and
feature the public, in which case there
would be but very few criminals.
„ Cruel men and severe laws, not only
induce, but compel, mankind to com-°
mit crimes ; for, placed in that situa
tion, they consider, even death itfelf, a
merer.—-In order that a virtuous peo
ple should remain virtuous, men in au
thority must set good examples. In
order that the vicious 'may be reclaim
ed, their lives and happiness should al
ways, if possible, be preserved.
Governors and rulers more especially
fhould.know, previously, the great pur
pose of human life ; arid to what end
the government of mankind should be
directed ! that the sole qnd ofit should
always be, to render them virrpous and
happy* And those Governors who
confider, that for their own fake,
they are placed in authority; are
acurfe; for, that is wholly ' incompati
ble, with the endin tended.- But he who
knowsnot in what virtue Confiffs, can
never know how to govern, he will
probably mistake virtue for auf
ferity, arid to effect independence, he
is filled, with flatter,. From this
WALifoe Gnot'tu tefahti/m^NeT
disced by a phantom of falfe glory, and
knows nothing, ofvirrue. Such men
are a terror to mankind, and mankind
are a terror io them They invent &vil
for the fake of imputing it. — Let your
great objed, therefore, be man—Ex
amine him, hear him, try him by de
grees ; trust implicity to none and
learn mankind to know.'
-PHILADELPHIA, MAY 6.
The subject of the last cofifoenrial
message, dpon -which Mr. Sitgreaves re
ported, Whs declared to be of a nattfre
proper to[be made public. It is of ve
ry serious imporiahce ; the whole of tie
particulars we have-not yet b^n able
to learn, Hut we fhril Rate fuCfi as ffave
come to our knowledge, and fuc^ is
will fhewßo our Readers thaf a very
extraardifo, correffeondence has lately
J been carried on between William
Blount, a Senator from the new State bf
Tennessee, and the British Miriifter re
sident here.—The following is the Co
py df a letter from William Blount, to
a person of the name of Carey, an In
dian interpreter, which, together with
filter particulars, were on Monday laid
before both Houses of Congress by the
President of the United States :
G/ .^h^, — > 797 .
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