Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-03-13

}HWaTGS OCutd hC HdSC hoaS auy 'SPusoo'S
| business here Would you exile him
| from his home TO what place could he
! have sHown where the 6ngsrof scorn would
no. have been pointed at hints The
words gentlemen have been read TO you,
- Resist no, evil and when a man smltcth
thee en- the osc cheek, turn 70 him the o.
Their also.'' This is the law OF heavsn |;
but il is general law aad the nasure q
things, which nature is constitutes by
heaven, makes many necessEy coSval ex.
exceptions. II cvi! is Ia 40 case TO Dc re-
sisted, The prisoner would DOT noWbe artiiis
bar. nor you troubled with this trial. 1t
is because evil is sometimes to br-resisted
that triastake place. aosice one other
exception. When the evil is such as 10
threaten mans reputation, his usefulness.
his standing IN society, his means OF sub.
sis,ence, his all dsarer than life, then may
the evil be lawfully resisted. It is an aw.
full crisis, an hour Of peril, moment OF
sdarkness.--B But it is crisis that he Is
bound to summon al. the energies OF his
soul 10 meet. He should stand like Atlas,
/" While storms and telnpests thunder on IT'S
broyM
g And oceans break thciI.b;liows at its feet"
The endowment Of ,algnss is an Implied
Injunction to make every excrtlon 70 pre-.
serve them ia their original strength aud
fitness to be useful. When the cflsis ar
rives. that threatens every thing auc drives
to the last effort p,ous nan, CHRIS
,ian should obey the injunction, aud may
look tor ccuntcpance to heaven. TN such
an occasion man should act, accountable
only to his God. know taas,hese are de-
lica,e things tina. they are in this subject
intrinsic q fscuities; peculiar and aiasoss
insurraeunsasle embarrassments. kaow
il would be daegeroas to maks Known that
insult coH;d ever be resented with death.
The ssa,e principle, itnaay Ga said, THAR
10 any case could authorize a raan howe.
yer elevated by rank education aad talents
10 rspsl ignonsiny with death, would justify
the chimnev-s sweep On some iBdgnity OIL
fsred by brother knight OF The scot, TO
rip his scrsper into biz belly. | know the
olNiGCl~SCS--el iCCl VIC NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. =
/, may be dangerous 10 make known ,ht
principle. Il is Therefore perhaps best.
that il should rot BE- contained 10 writtea
laws. But can 90 ,,ore doobt the right
than ! can doub. that the objcct Of exiss-
ence is no, mere respiration. i
GenIemen, Iviadicase the spirit Of dny
country, ! neveT viii express, never viii
be thought by silence TO acguissce in any
sentiment that may tend 10 sink or degrade
il. I senera,e tie principles o! oar hoiy
rel gion. ltspscs sociaIrig'.is. womb
pot Infringe, eul project i. Blu. when The !
law Of society cannot act, The law OF Ia
tare returns. The citizen should obey tbs
law, ard expeet flrg; teness from The God
Of nature. Every thing: is a, stake II /
should set hrn,ly, the crisis is Of horror
bat foriliade IN reqnlsisioo, man can soar
snPeslosio she, crisis. On, sueh occasions, he
rises far a50vs ordinary u.axinls, poisea on
ms s77a mcSna'lini;y. Il ever | should
be called To meet such a crisis, nay tsis
arm shyink fnlsiea from its socket, if f
slsou'1 eyer hesitate sodsfend ny o7va honor.
II the Defendant, gentlemen Ct the jury,
had dane difereas!y; if he had iorsborn
TO have used bis pistol, and had taken a
Beating Or Change at noonsday, and had
thee .Teiurned to his children, whom he
had endeavored to instruct 10 principles, OF |
honor, would they cali him father. |
Gentlemen, will state TO you case,
and leave It 70 your judgment, whether
an assault with iasens to disgrace may ne.
yer be resensed with death. Assaults with
intent TO kill or MAIN, II is adnsitsed. may,
but to MAIN is to disable those limbs Of
use IN fighting. IN ASSAULT to destroy a i
leg or an arm may therefore rig'Ntal!y be
rePcIsa with death. Pat an assault TO take
OF The eara or mace cannot (s.n,ian aen