Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-09-06
CANTo end.

His warlike hordes he guides to distant
realms,
And, numbering in gross, the world DER
whelms
Resistless as the sea, he bends his way,
And conquered nations abjectly obey
Behold Imperial Rome, whose sovereign law
By arms and menace held the world in awe
Now bends submissive to receive the stroke.
Nor feels dishonord by the Gallo yoke
Could Brutus or could Caesar now behold
Their country to a foreign despot sold
Could they have augur'd this effect of time,
Caesar had died, but not by Brutus' crime
The race Of Roman patriots is DER,
Virtue a name, and Liberty no more.
Where Hollands hardy sons, Injured to toll
Stemmd the proud waves, and forcd fertile
soil, (dr
To ev'ry nation their white sails unfurld,
And held ready traffic with the world
Rich, independent, virtuous and blest,
Daring Ambition broke their peaceful rest;
Now sunk and spiritless, their ardor flown,
They knee (e) foreign Tyrant on the
throne
Austria, Poland, Prussia kiss the hand,
Whose tender mercies" desolate their land
For thee, o switzerland | drop the tear,
For Freedom struggling on its bloody bier.
When great Columbus his adventurous Prov
Turn'd to observe the Suns refulgent glow,
90 With mental eye new regions he explores,
"And hears strange oceans dash on unknown
shores )"
Then Spain, exulting in her length of coast,
Made her vast empires IL and rich mines her
Years, ages roll, and Spain, her lustre gone,
See sordid mobiles crouch around the throne;
See Bigotry and misplaced Zeal aspire
To raise the pulley and to light the fire. (g)
The HYDRA falls; IN they are no longer
slaves,
They nobly strive to stem expressions waves
But Freedo m priz'd to o late must now retreat,
And proud IBERIA bend at GaltiGs feet
Victorious Bondparte with rapid strides
Makes winds and oceans his proptious guides;
In every cline his crimsond steps we trace,
Inhibition deck'd in GLoRY's borrowed grace.
(c) When Xerxes invaded Greece, his vast
army and numerous retinue amounted accord
ing to the best historians to upwards of fUe
millions of souls The rivers were drained
tor his army to pass. and Uice Uersa, he cut a
channel through Mount Athos, for his fleet to
sail through. LeOnidds and his three hun
dred Spartans, opposed to this vast host at
Thermopyle, are immortalised by the con
test
i'd A great part of Holland was gained
from the sea. At Amsterdam in particular
the Stadt- House and other buildings are rails
ed on piles driven into the earth, it not being
sufficiently firm to sustain them without
(e) To" knee"-on the authority Of Shakes
peare, TdHeyrand, late Prince of Neufcha
tel, was talked of as king of Holland, since
the recall of Louis Bonaparte 1t is now uni
ted to France.
~ Mexico and Peru-The subjugation Of
these nations furnishes facts to eurdle tn,
blood of a savage.
10 The Inquisition, that terrene Hell
which was instituted in the 18th century
used to employ every species of torture, t
extort confession from the wretched victim
of superstition. If they confessed, they wer
strangled before they were burned, but,
stedfast in their faith, they were dressed il
famecolored garments, with hideous figure
painted upon them, and were burned alive.
fh) The destruction of this horrid instru
ment of diabolical cruelty softens as respect
Spain, our repugnance to the towering gigan
tic ambition of Napoleon the First, who lik
him who rides the pale horse, scatters tn
nations of the earth as the leaves are scat
tered by the autumnal winds The Kaquisi
ton was particularly levelled against tn
Jews and the Moors. 1t is computed by histc
rians that Torquemada the Inquisitor- Genera
in fourteen years tried above eighty thou
sand persons and of these between foe an
sir thousand were brought to the stake
ExTRAcT.-Some persons absent them
selves from Church on account of bad wea
ther, or for fear of taking cold while niue
worse weather does not keep them from tn