Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-07-20
oI1s IL Cents Singled

Be lie so. but true contrition is mark
ed with meekness and humility. Has
his been so? If he now rcpents, It's
like an angry wolf, thar stands at bay
grinding his teeth, and who rtpents of
nothing bat this, that he is caught.
The words his counsel opened with
this day, were they like penitence,
whenhe threatened deep shame and
ruin to this lady and her friends? To
make the color fade upon her cheek
regretted that her own son was not
then present to stuprate his own mo-.
Their, and hoped she might be then ia
court to hear him say SO? Was it re-
Pentance, to have 6rst pursued her
into the privacy of modest life, and
at the shrine of blessed hospitality, be-
fore the household Gods of her pro-
rectors, like sanguinary savage, as
sail her with his club; but even with
An this hour, here In the sanctuary of
the law, once more to lift his worse
than homicidal arm, and aim another
dagger at her breast?. Is this that
true repentance, in sack cloth and in
aches, that moves mans pity and Hea-
ven's mercy?
1here was monastery, where dead
iy crimes were expiated, called La
IrdPPe: when sinners entered il. they
made terrible VOW of everlasting 81.
ience, and from that awful momens
never uttered word, and daily with
their nails dug their own graves.
When the midnisht bell tolled them to
prayer, they left their solitary cells,
and moved with noiseless step thro'
gloomy cloisters and whispering allies,
with down-cast look, turning their ro-
saries, but never spoke. Such is the
Peuitence, such the everlasting silence
that would become the ruthless slam
derer of woman's honor. But he who
acts the bully and the bravo, and calls
himself the champion of &C high Hea-
yen," what words Can paint the hor-
rcr he inspires Then let US leave
My duty calls me now to recapitu-
late the testimony of all his Witnesses.
The first and principal is Mr.. Carver.
He, with uplifted hand, affirmed, by
the ever living God, the truth of what
he estihed----and what was that
dis letter tells us all-that he AMI
Paine had dispute for money; and
IN their correspondence you may find
the crimes and baseness they recipro>
cally urged against each other. Mr.. !.
Carver, whose vulgar, scurriIous lst-
ter makes the chief huttress OF this
mans defence, the more to spite his
adversaries, filings out some calumny
against the lady. Carver himself adj
mats, that when she got a sight of il,
she threatened TO prosecute him for
that very letter. Yet, on no better
ground, has this audacious libeller de-
famed her reputation.
From The same source springs the infer.
/ al hint that little Thomas Bonneville had
The ccuntenance and features of Tom
Paine in his little nose, no doubt, the his.
,orian could discern by learned inspe etion,
the germs of future blossoms, and germs
that in due course of nature, should come
10 this worlds sight.
Carver gives evidence OF what he heard
from Paine of Mrs. Bonneville, which he
himself relailed 10 Cheetham; aud Cbeet-
ham, rather than such sublime history
should not shine forth 20 save poor sin :.
ners souls, becomes historian Tor the low ;.
of God and gives them to the woIidns
HISTORY. This is the histe.y OF This tbs.
roRIAN and h his,ory.
Now, gentlemen, supported thus, Mr
Cheethsm the historian, had such faith N
atheists, that he would rather presume
Their ISLANDERS iIue, than any woman vlr-
iuous. still the story Of MIS-, Bonneville s
never having been the wife Of Mr. Bonf-c {.
vile, which Carver writes that Pa ne did
say in speaking harshly OF her, and viii il
is evidence before you now ofihis man'u
malice, being IN his history; dis, say
he could 10. have believed, because IL
came rem Pane, oil whom both he ID
Carver wIi,e that he d d never speak u
word Of truth. See wEat a slraDg d..
Iemma he is in. First, lie safes thai Nv
Pane seduced her from her hub d, and
then he shows YOU, in an other. page size
never he'd husband. How besuliM a,d
uniform is truth! How mUlilorm end
nuicate Is falsehopd How like the spi =
der's flimsy web How Ike the coihng
OF the scaly serpent, the winnings Of II c