Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-11-18
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For tie Alexandria Daily Gazette.
Sas not unto thy Heighbor, go, and come
cgcis and fo-morrozv I mil giUe, zvhen fhoa
hast IL By thee.
PROVERBS, s. %.
z THE author Of the above sublime admo.
milton was thesson of Bathshcba, and the
darling Of his father, "tender and only be-
l,ved." He had blessings heaped upon him
Of every description, and in suPerlative
abundance He was most powerful and
popular monarch the spontaneous off
springs of the numerous neighboring princes
were the most conv;ncing pledges of their
esteem and support.
His court was the focus, in which center
ed all that was excellent & desirable it was
the tcmpis of Wiasrva, the fayorite seat ct
AboA0, and the car of Veaus.
For his solution and pastime, the wise
men of the east, and the hair-breaelth cri-
tics, culled the richest theses from the field
ofliterature the orchestra Of FIVE hundred
ssweet singers of Israel, and playing on
all manner OF instruments, awoke their soul.
ep.;vening stratus for him to decorate his
board, the kline brought forth their fatliaes
in The vallies; for his golden goblets, the
mountain sides teemed with their racy pro-
ducts; the thousand beautious virgins Of
Palestine administered with alacr;ty, their
exquisite charms for has qualification in
short, he quaffed high the pleasures OF life,
in all their voluptuous changes.
Ifthen, while basking in this exsatc frui-
tion, he could sly out, through the deceit
fuI phalanx of fawning coursiers that sur
J, rounded him, that there were such things
in the world as toUerty and distress (for
flesh and blood revealed itnot unto him.
3 and could press the subject TO the bad pay
\ masters OF MS day, in the moving terms as
above it is, it mist be, an irrefragable
proof, that evaaiag the honest claim Of the
indigent Is not SO light a matter rs it is ge-
morally conceived I; but that all these litse
grievances skall have q re-hearing at the
final COURT OF APPEALSil
The good king, in the verse preceding my
quotation, draws the attention in still more
smphatic language, if possible. with.
hold not good from them to whom it is due,
1phen IT. an tAs pozver ofthine hand to do
II! As much as to say-when the poor Ia
borer has let out his person to you, to per-
form with willingness and patience, as tar
as his strength permits, every drudgery that
you please to heap upon him, even till the
night star arises upon his labors, and then
with humility approaches you for his hire !;
do not, my dear friends-do not send him
awaywith the unsatisfying words-''Go, and
come again, and to-morroro zviA give" es-
pecially if it is in the posver Of thine hand
to do it" Tomorrow lit is word of
equ:yocal import at least, q drcary, solemn
season of darkness intervenes, In which you
Oryour creditor may be called to the land
otyour fathers, and the claim never be sa-
tis6edi
would willingly entertain the good OPT
Mon of you, to believe you do not weigh
the disparity of consequences that may re-
sui, from giving or withholding. Gi0e him
the skiaing REGARD of his toll, which to you
Is but triie, but to him it may be has Ife,
Or the life q his family lit may fill his lit
tie ones with bread, and cause the heart of
his fond partner TO leap for joy :-Hitdhoa
from him. and YOU may send him away,