Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-01-04

,,,. .u,no.e death an unwelcoune visitor
man who near 40 years age aug DIS
~. with his own hands, and who ever
s;nce has endeavored to prepare MN,
elf fer that awful moment when ne 'na''
appear before his Celestial Crea.oa, ~.
fore fore the Supreme Judge ofthe Universe
~ terrible to guilt, terrible to assasslns'
,.,v.var eleyated-kind to innocence,
bowever.ob obscure 49,
unfortunate man YOU have my
nravers On! repent before the door
Of mercy is smut against you forever
Your corrupt hattcrers' your deoas s,
slaves call you all powerfur--a slhiu,
man all powerful IA weak, w'ckeu
man, all powerful what profanity
woat impiety! what blasphemy lpa
all powerful you, who have not the
newer to create blade Of grass, or the
wing of an insec, YOU, who cannot ar
rest a drop of rain from the s"ailes'
cloud, or produce the least ray OF the
sun through an overcast ornament:
Blush, Oh ! sinner, for the meanness
of your accomplices, and acknowledge
PROSTATE in the dust, your own llttlei,es''
v,ur own insignlficance before Goo
zyho alone is all towcrfnl-who in an IN.
slant can reduce you ard your usurped
dominions to atoms. and from plnless
scourge transform you to a eieedhs
sacrifice
Listen to dying man who has nothing
more to hope or to fear in this w'efchsd
worId-who addresses you VII no o.
ther view but to present you, 1t posi-
BILE. from increasing the mass OF your
enormitics-from provoking the impre-
cations OF more innocent blood on your
a'rcat!y too cuIpable head
Educated in christianity, by the boan-
" of that family whose throne you nave
usurped, ysuc perverse dispositions OF
7 your unnatural ambition, caused you To
proclaim Yourself an inhdel before you
nad attained the age of manhood. You
enlisted, while yet youth, in the ranks
IF he prosecutors, of the robbers, the
narderers of the ministers Of Christ
fol assisted this sacriegious horde to
overthrow his temples, to level his al
tars, but you surpassed them in wick
edne>s by adding to your eutrages "a
gains, christianity an apostacy to Ma
h3met; 10 deIudc those whom you had
shocked by your armies, you, from base
AID selfish motives, pretended to re-
turn to the God of your childhood to
the church of your torefathers-but no
sooner had the Holy father administer
ed his absolution and condesccndcd to
consecrate you ruler, than you plotted
TO confound the sacred authority of the
PontiF with the arrogsted right Of the
emperor, and to dictate doctrine to
the church as well as code 70 the state.
To the ad:nenitions of Plus VII. you
replied, by the seizure of the paPal ter.
ritory, by innovations iii religion, by
threats to ex'irpa,e the very foundations
efchris,iaDi,y The decentralization,
necessarily pronounced, dissolved the
allegia of al! your oppressed subjects,
made you in the christian world an out
law; for whose conversion charity NIGH!
induce us secretly to pay, but whose
temporal prosperity IL would have becI
sinful 70 desire We had 10 choice bur
re obey. or to wound our consciences-
instead ii Furnishing US VINO rerDained
firm III cur duty, you susbt rather to
have esteemed US as honest men, and
trusted us AS conscientious christians
those vino are not intImida!ed by power
ty, by prisons, by racks and execution.
ers must be above all earthly considc-
rations anc are more worthy Of cent?
nee tnan those to whom pei ury is f.
,niia! those who fear their God will
never isr.ake or betray their rightfuI
prince. III The day Of Calamity That day
which work cpentance) you will be
sure To find their arms stretched out to
p otect you, ard heir lips ready to speak
consolation 10 your ,racted bosom !;
While perjurers. infdeIs ard atheists,
will net only desert you, but struggle
with each other IN Casting the first sto'
Spare, therefore, those venerable chris.
tIen. priests, who like myself, beheld
IN you, Until the day of repentance, not
their legitimate sovereign, but IN ex.
communicated sinner; the wil!ul enemy
Of his God, as well as Of his fellow
beings.
Hear voice from the grave! Repent
# you will be saved ! RepuIse those
f"tterers who only remind you of your
'sower-a power to destroy which you
share in common with the beast OF the
forest: while like them again repeat,
you cannot give life to worm, or YER
dure to weed.
You have my forgiveness, and ny ar
dent prayer for your conversion-I has,
ten to your God, and to my Cd oh!
pray and repent and you. may yet be
saved!