Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1810-05-14

eylrrss;an IN lIraltv an H.tai s1sr'f-f, rH.
fcssore6 40 assurcc his fears, sDoihe 'is
mird AMI hush him Into pesrr greeted
him IS their sire ami father called them.
selves his children Thus, I-lhis. one ~
lie Taildest princes, that ever sat on the
French thron1, ovcrsw a by fear, hegui'cd
~ HstteIies, PeaoeAbly resigned up his ~ yl
Drer,galives And for no other cTine than
hat VI being born kiag, and exercising At
office guaranteed TO him BY tie constitution
nc his country, suffered death, together
xi,h his family, 24,000 priests. $4,000
women, 100000 children, and men q All
descriptions, to the amount OF two million,
IN thres years and six months.
Proceeding on IN al the phrenzy 81 demo
cratic insanity, establishing atheism and an
anarchy by Law, commencing tremendu-
Gus massacre of all her anti-infdel citizens,
proclaimed the Son Of Cod an impOster, his
gospel a forgery, and swore to exterD'nate
Christianity from the face ofthe eaish. Oar
author exclaims, +" Woe to those that foun-
der in the miry waves of the vastly deep, the
the turbid sea of Republican uproar-for
the darkened skv portends a tempest of
strange miseries e And as ifto raise high
column for the perpetuation Of their inpiety
that Mi hts serve as snawtulnementotoiuturs
generations, after a6juring Christ, and de-
claring him to be an impostor, the conven-
tion with tumultuous applause decresd the
alteration of liberty, equality, public opinion,
men, women, or whatever the H.
Illuminated nation saw fit TO csnonize IN har-
mony with this doctrine, the great Republic
enrolled Volta;re, Rosseau, Mirabeau, Mu-
rat, and even the vile assassin Ankerstrom,
as Gods And the Church of St. Gene
We've was changed into Pagan temple, or
pantheon, to this polluted den Of idolatry.
The remains of Voltaire and Rossesu,
were conveyed in magnificent procession,
aud as if to insult the Almighty. the bones
Of Voltaire were placed upon the high al
tar, and incense was offered TO them. The
infatuated multitude mean while, bowling
down in silent alteration before the relics Of
this arch enemy Of Christ. In this same
pantheon, some of the handsomest women,
their greatest bellies, beauties & prostitutes,
entered the isles of this temple, assembled
The stage, and with the most amorous aglh-
ty, presented themselves entirely naked,
both, before the convention and the people /;
and ii was decreed that these prostitutes,
personated human reason, and were entitled
to their supremest homage; and to complete
The climax of the illuminated society, pub
Iicly appeared personally attacking God Al
mighty. " No thou dost not exist, if thou
hast power over the thunder5olts, grasp
them at the man who dareS set
At defiance in the face Of thy affairs, cut no,
I blssphems thee, and still live, no thou
1ost net exist" Rarrueps memoirs Of
Iacobinism. VOL III. p. :l7
Sill such an impenetrable veil was drawn
over the motives from which these revolt
tioAiSts acted, the ends had in view and the
crimes they committed, that the friends Of
yirtuous liberty, at this august crisis, in a
maze stood gazing on as admiring specta-
tors of this apparent bloodless revolution,
which suddenly burst forth upon an aston
ishing world. They hailed it as a new e
poeh in human affairs, as the rising dawn Of
a resplendant day Of happiness and peace &c
the human race, to see that long oppressed
French nation as they supposedly rise in all
the majesty OF virtue, triamphantly unfurl-
ing the banners Of Freedom, produced the
deepest solicitude. Every sympathetic
feeling and the most ardent wishes for
their success, was irresistibly excited,
while they lavished in profusios en,husias-
tie praise on the briIlianey Of their exploits,
while in reality, these rcvolutionists were
practising the most dizboIisal deception up.
on the human rase, which has taken place
since the time that Satan begailed Adam
ans Eve, our srst pareHts in paradise.
SPARTA AMERICUS.