Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-05-23
LITERARY MONITOR.

e Rumanitas Remhublcam ct Civis Hsnorat'
&c Bv virtues to the world endear'd,
By foes respected, and by friends reverb;
Prompt to relieve the supplicating sigh,
And never dash'd with tears the asking eye !;
But wak'd of 10y the long departed beam,
Deep sunk in sorrows unremitting stream
HUMANITY and MERCY, are such glo-
rious distinctions in the character OF man,
neighborhood, city, state or nation, that to
obtain this illustrious character is to possess
more than the diadems OF potentates or the
wealth of empires.
Nothing can more exalt an individual or
people, because nothing is more GOD axe.
The very substance and essence OF the CAT7S-
tian Religion, are BENEVOLENCE and
MERCY They are the fundamental prln-
ciples of all our blessed SaUiou1'S Instructions
to man, and the volume of infinite goodness
is but an ample display of these sublime and
inestimable virtues.
It is then glorious for thee, my country
that thou art Incorporating, with thy genera
character, those enobling and venerable prln-
ciples, which shed a radient lustre around
thine imperishable VIRTUE-thou art en-
hancing thy worth with the most superior ex-
cellence-and thy Body Of Liberties, en-
shrined with a glory brilliantly magnificent
as the spheres of heaven, shall, like those ma
iestc orbs, continue, through all the vast vo-
Tunes of ages, and be, in Oery deed, name
and praise throughout the whole earth
1t is sale: of ALEXANDER, present Enfe-
ror ofaN the Russians" that he needs no life
guards-that his best and only security IS IN
the respectful affections of his numerous sub
iects-that he is accessible to all, and that his
predominant ambition is to possess and eXer-
else the virtues of humanity.
It is said of BoNAPARTE, EMPEROR Of the
French, that his guards are strong, and his po-
lice agents numerous--that he Is as 1t were
walled around with formidable Steel and en-
trenched within huge forest OF bayonets =
that like the priests, with perpetual prayers
and lamps at the mausoleum OF the LamaS,
his iapincibZes are drilled 10 incessant duty
while mercy sits weeping behind the tombs of
the Cahet8-a monument Of DESPAIR.
Who would not be the one, and who does
not venerate the one in preference to the
other?
General SuwARRow, in the great and gen
eral massacre at Warsaw, fired the city and
butchercd in cold blood, Nine thousand con-
quered inhabitants At Ismael, he caused a
general, inhuman and horrld massacre OF
THRU Thousand Turks :! =!
General WASHINGTON, saved his coun-
try-became the father of his people" and
retired from public life, followed with the
blessings of millions and the most tervent We
neration of posterity.
How exalted & glorious is mercy May our
illustrious statesmen henceforth, with wisdom
ever exercise the true spirit Of humanity; allow
no Catital fl1nishments-no blood to be shed
in the expiation Of crimes-no life to be sacri-
feed even at the holy alter OF, JUSIlCE-
for mthe voice of bloodc cries from the ground"
even now amid the accumulated blood stains
on this sacred and venerable shrine, there is
still visible the hallowed and imperishable In
scription--a GOD is LOVE ]" +" Be ye
then merciful as your GOD is mercltul,"
Let mercy be the seal and sanction OF all your
Lieislative acts-spare not the necessary chas-
tisemcnt, for /" correction in righteousness
-hnt C do no murder" do not kill
AS all men have an equal right to live,
" Take not away that life you cannot give"
Snare the victim of the law from brutal
;mmo,ation-and administer those punish
ments, which being mercyul, shall DO thee,
my country, everlasting honor'-'@**'**s'
Boston Patriot.
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