Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1810-07-27

ner enjoyment OF a government (for she
then had agoVernment) without enquiring
what the nature OF that government was, or
now It was administered Can I now con.
gratulate the same nation upon its Free
dom! Is It because liberty in the abstract
may De elassed amongst the blessings Of
mankind, that am seriously to felicitate
a m idmAn, who has escaped from the pro-
tectlng restraint and wholesome darkness
OF ms cell, on his restoration to the enjoy
ment OF light and liberty! Am to con
gratulate an highwayman and murderer,
VINO has broke prison, upon the recovery
OF his natural rightss This would be 10
act over again the scene of the criminals
condemned to the gallles, and their heroic
dsiiverer .he metaphysics knight Of the
Sosrowful c~ountenance."
Burke's INFECTIONS, page z and 8.
The infamous Paine in his reply thus misrepresents
his antagonist
But Mr.. Burke appears to have no
idea OF principles when he is contemplating
governments. " Fen year sgo (sass hey [
could nave fclicitated France on her hav.
log a government, without euquitiug
:" what the nature of that government was
; or how il was administered" Is this the
Language OF a rational man ? l. il the Ian
gulge OF a heart feeling asst ought to feel
tor the rights and happiness of the human
race! On this ground Mr.. Blu, Ike must
compliment every government in the world,
while the victims who suffer under them.
whether sold into slavery or tortured out
OF existence are wholly forgotten. 1t is
power and not principles that Mr.. Burke
venerates; and under this abominable de-
pravitv, he is disqualified to judge between
them"
Paine's Rights Of Man, 4h Am Ed p..t7.
This is one of a multitude of similar instances of
base Misrepresentation to be found in that work. If
any thing be wanting to complete he character Of
this outrage it will be found in the fact that paine's
pamphlet was sold at about six pence sterling. and of
course went into the hands of thousands, who had
not the means of detecting the imposition.
The character of Pane is not common one. His
is not the case OF a vicious man putting on the garb
OF virtue, affecting a sentiment that he does not pos.
sess--This is to De met with every day, but we dc
not every day meet with persons who can really feel
the extremes of the most opposite emotions of oul
nature; and Paine, is in this respect, almost a soil
tary case. Rousseau has declared and exhibited
himself TO the world sometimes vile and despicable
at others, %yirtuous, generous, and sublime - Sternt
has been called a Sentimental scoundreI p but TIL,
vice OF Rousseau fell infinitely short Of p ,ine's ant
the Prebendary of York, however deficient in III
discharge OF his duties as a husband and a father
was certainly pious and benevolent in his feel ngs
just and honorable in his life. Rousseau, it is true
could send his infant children, $" without brand O
ear mark" to a public hospital for foundlings,. bu
even he possessed much of that 60 sensibility of prin
ciple, that chastity of honour under which vice los,
half its evil by losing all its grossness." Not SO,
Paine The whole mass of the man, physical and
moral, was one hideous compound Of all that is Of.
fensive and loathsome in human nature-a melancho-
ly instance off man, capable of noble, elevated SEN
timent, devotng himself to all that is base and de.
testable. E..
Il late traveller fhyo' Holland, Flanders and
France stafes thar there are some huaiyeAs civil mi mi
Ata,y o9fcers in France sUho have presented themselves
10 the fuvor of the bubhc BY assuming the name and