Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-08-08
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! closest ties, to beloved wife
darling children, to many mu,
near relations and to numer
friends, consisting Of the worth
men in the community, who To-,
most to idolatry--awake to all
sibilities, what powerful sensa,i,
have assailed him, when he appear
retired and gloomy spot of death.
pliance with the stern mandates of
and against his solemn conviction a,
ter Judgment? What, ask, mus,
been his feelings, and, through brs
Csssar's self, how distant must he
been from that GOODNESS which In suchs
is almost essential to success, had Sd,
been his object? On the otherhand b,
his adversary; without wife, win
children, with scarcely tie of kind
with a few adherents indeed, but men e
ing themselves bound to him by far od
sentiments than those which constint
the alliance between a Hamilton and tbc
who loved him---an isolaced being, W,
heart never palpitated with any passion b
what springs from systematic sel6sbrss
dead to all pleasure and all enjoyment h
what is connected with the wish Of oer.o.
al aggrandizement; man whose boson
was never moved by pity, at the erie, -
distress, nor enliYened by participating ~ ",
the pleasures Of the innocently h,e . ~
whose affections are.all concentrated in mr. >,
tlnprincipled ambition; whose exou.;;a
hypocrisy can assume all forms and a@.c.I
every Write; whose glossy duplicitv c,1
impose equally on the unsuspectine and IN
the incredulons: who has long since al
were, substituted an artificial setf in pl,,
ofthat Which nature made; so that neitbsA
compassion nor remorse we're ever pprmS
ted to usurp, even momentarv SWAY inE
breast that should turn him from b;s 90.
tied purposes.
Such is the slight but faithful porraitdI
the man who was to level the weapon III
death against the unfortunate Hamilton i
With this picture before our eyes is il uI
apparent that the fatal event was bsTE
more certain in his own mind, when he I'll
the murdered Hamilton receive the brHeI
in his bosom, and apparently, expire 0,
the spot, than it had been for day. anil
weeks before?
We have seen what was his behaviour
after the deed of dreadful note" wa
over. Not. even the sigh of " unfelt sm
row"-not one look upon the dyingil
glance tow ards him indeed. as if to saI
It the business was done, gesture of bI
'csaaifdds and md. ahrug of the shoulders! ThI
contrition ola Nfacueaaq vqatllby
for his guilt thus broke forth
IS am afraid to think of what Eve dos,
Look on II again l dare not"
E" How's it with me when every noit iaD
mel
What hands are here! Ha! they pluck ont n&
eyes!
Will all great Neptune's ocean vain this blood
Clean from MY hand :"
" To know my deed----'twere be& not inf
myfeIf."
" Come fealiug night,
Scarf up the tender eye Of ptitu day;
And with thy bloody aud lnviiOlc hard,
Cancel and tear to pieces, that great bond,
Which keeps M pale u
All this bespeaks violent emotion; st,'
sensation of remorse and fear. But
pursue Aaron Burr home from the ii'
scene, we find in him only cheeriulh"
a gaiety of feeling that makes one shud1S
And after the last sad scene was over a
Hamilton slept in his grave, we find
who sent him there, appearing in one
our public prints, shamelessly taIkingaTI
a gentleman's protecting his honor by