Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-09-24

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Their important buincfs at the royal court,
while he Aatteredthe with his opinion of
the goodnefs Of their caufe, he, at the fame
time, limited TO them the incapacity and
negligence of his fathers administration.
" There is no man, he (aid, deputed of the
King to hear thee )" as much as to fay,
!" the King negleets you and through his
neglect you fufer injuitice and injury"
Ablalom, then, with a peculiar model
| ty, proceeded to recommend himfelf for
Office. O, faid he, that l were made
judge in the land, that every man which
hath any fuit or caufe might come to me
and | would do him juficc!" What a pa
triohic with! And how many a 9atriot
heart has ~devoutiy uttered the like eiacu-
lation. so that / might ger myielf fnus
into fome office of honor and proft!s'
+" So pants the bantedbnt to find,
Aua tgfs THE qoatrr brooks."
" Were l to be King, faid Abfalom
IN his popular harangue, | would do all OF
you %jufice; I would tighten your bur
dens and redreis all your griovances.-
What charming talk THE people were
all ears, all eyes, all attention. But what
rap.ures filled their hears, when, beGdes
thete kind exprenions, he took them by
the hand one after another and k1gca them.
Ii is nothing frange thar he I" Roh
t6eir bcarts," as the facred text exprelIes
1t. " How wonderfully has Abfalom al
tered OF late faid the people. He MED
to De TO naughty, that we were not PET
mitted to peak to him; but now he is as
meek as a fhepherd's lamb, He ufed to
have a hard heart, a cruel nature; but
now his heart melts with pity and kind
neis towards US. We like him a thoufand
times better than we do that concerted
humdrum, Solomon, who never killed 70
much as one of us in all his life" "Did
yon obierve, faid one, that though we be,
dirty or ragged, i, makes no difference ;
he kites us all?'' "Yes, cried another, |
came d~irettly out of the field covered with
duit and dirt, and he killed met" And
me t00,-replied a black(mirh-he killed
me, though / came from my hop with
out wafhing, and with my face all over
belmeared with fweas and coal-duf."-
> What'a precious man of the people! ex-
claimed a thoufand tongues. Tho he has
hne chariots, fine horfes and fine clothes,
and his head is covered with the fyeeteH
perfumes and his hands are as white as IL
lies, lie loves US and even takes US by the
hand and kites us. God fave Abfalom!
King Abfalom, live forever!"
The dc!uded people fcemed to have
been in no meaiure hockcd at the horrid
guilt OF Abfalom in attempting to u(urp
the throne at the expenfe of his fathers
lite. They were not hocked even at the
unequalled imPudence of his proAigacy, in
~debauching his fathers women upon the
honfc-top, in open day, and in public view.
They did not confder that luch a bloody
and vicious monitor cloathed with power.
would be the WORT oftyrants. No, he had
battered them-he had told them that he
was their friend-he bad kNsd them, and
by th>fe means, had RoAu their hurts /:
and, but for the fortunate circumG ance of
his death, the nation of Ifrael might have
found in Abfalom as execrable a tyrant as
France did in Robefpierre. So the world
has gone on from age to age; the credu-
lous multitude have been caught by the
fe7o that were crafty and deGgning, even
as 1thes are caught in a net.
The great and all important expert
ment is now trying, whether the people
OF y rattan be wifer than have been the
people OF other nations and of former
ages. God grant that the experiment
may prove fuccefsful and inue ia the diff
tioguiihed honor and haPpineEs of this
country.
People of the United States beware
OF men who Ratter you, for they Aatter
you IN order to Reece you. Beware Of