Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-10-27

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Fran the (Nfqv-Tvk1 COMMERCIAL
ADVERTISER.
SOLILOQUY
OF DUsLrsr, qVbo lad iyf killed bis
optonenf
ScENE-Hs CHAMBER at miaaigbt, the
moox family Firing in at onc Of It's
qviadozos.
| I" Merciful God to what f'uation
have reduced myfelf by one inconiderase
act But few days have elapfed fnce my
mind was competed, ard at peace with
Heaven and with man; now, to what
melancholy fate am | hro't. My heart
approaches me, and forever will reprcach
me, for lifening to the call Of faJfs bouof,
and taking the life of one who was not my
enemy, and whom had Injured and In
fulted. Why had J. not the refolution to
delpife the opinion of that part Of the
world who confder this barba,ous cuftom
as proof Of d,aVe,y ? Alas, why did |
nor, like man and chrlitlan, reiolve to
10rgfve the injury 7 Guppofed done to N.Y.
IeJ.2 With what felt congratulation would
| ever after have looked back on this ae
of magnanimiiy! Bot now, by liaening
TO the voice OF Pq1fon, I have drawn on
myielf evils that Will coIrode my heart to
the cnd of life, already tie devils, from tbs
internal world, have irlzed or my bofom
end filed it with horrors. From above,
no cheering ray Of conlolasion dawns on
my guilty foul. 10 Heaven I cannot
raile prayer, for Heaven abhors the mur-
derer. From the feriors and virtuous pars
of fociety can obtain no relief; there
every look ieems 10 reproach me. As |
walk the freels, me thinks the finger OF
deteaation IS pointed at me. In the fde.
glances and downcait looks OF my Old ac-
qaaintance, / thiak read repugnance and
reproach. Within my own tedrt | have
Gill LET'S fatistattioa-I have become my
own mott deadly foe. In the folemn hour
Of night, when The eyes of the ret off~ci-
ETY. are iealed 10 lumber, mine are kept
open by remorfe and agony. Oh, that |
could fee from myfeif! Oh, that l had
never been born-orthat I had been made
beat or a. reptile, rather than rational,
an immortal beng. Oh, that lcould bet
believe that Death was an etrrnal lseb'
but there is principle within me tina,
infrutts ne | fhalI never d;e-The fod
may indeed cover this body, but my foul
mult live for ever, an example of the jnf-
tice OF that God, who has declared thai he
viii punifh the guilty."
Alas! in how mild light do the gay
and fashionable part of the world regard
this crime Little do they think Of the
awful event which hur1ies frail offending
creature into the prelence Of his God, all
covered with offences, unrepen,ed of-lIt-
tie do they feel fer the agony of the wi
dowed wife-,he helplelsneis of orphan
children, which this cruel, this execrable
practice 70 often occaGons. Could they
jufly view this p;ttu.e, they would not
add their fanttion 10 the cufom, but would
hi(s from fociety the man who 70 daringly
violated the laws of his country, of huma-
nifty and his Con.
Let the public fentiment oncedecifvely
frown on this relic If barbarj(za, and it
would ceaie-but while the name of c07v
a,dis attached to the perion who ihuns a
duel-and while to decline Perfonal COM
bat is reckoned difgrace, 70 long will
this murderous practice continue, in def
ance Of the laws of Heaven and OF Soci-
Icty.