Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-08-18
Whole No. 794.

n unity OF design, until that momentous
design was fully achieved. In the princi-
pal agents of this achievement, the great
and venerable Kutusoff, the equally pene-
rable and glorious Blacher, aud the dsstin-
guished Sehwartzenburg, avengers and pro-
tectors of humanity, we cannot but discern
an extraordinary combination of superior
minds, reserved and brought forward as in.
struments of Heaven, for a crisis, which
was to determine the dearest interests and
anxious hopes of all mankind. In the con-
duet ofthe tyrant himself, we see distinct
proofs of an overriding destiny, which hur-
ried him On to the contamination of his fate.
As the allies advanced through the terrific.
ry OF France, repeated opportunities, al
most to the last moment, were afforded
him of concluding a peace on terms, which
would have left him in the possession of
sovereign power, with which, at some fo-
ture day, he might again return to vex and
plague the nations, and renew his shemes
of ACKNOWLEDGMENT aud despoliation. But
he would not take heed from the c~ounsels
OF prudence. and he persisted, with the OBJ
stinacy of madness in the road that led him
to perdition. Q0em Deus uult perdere.
prius dsmeatdt-Heayen deprived the mis-
N.oahA " uhuVh stouuhbb, oiuci ~ insure
his destruction.
And shall we not then rejoice with gra-
titude in the fulflment of the high purposes
OF Heaven, manifested in mercy to a large
portion Of the human family, SO long suf-
tering in slavery and trepidation? Shall
we not rejoice in a revolution, thus easily,
happily and miraculously effected, that pro.
misses to secure the blessing of free and
~mitiga,ed privileges of government to the
afflicted people of a mighty empire, which,
for five and twenty years has been lacerated
by discord and exhausted by oppression ?
Shall we not rejoice in the restoration, both
to France and Spain, of an innocent, ill
fated and illustrious family, the family of
the Bourbons, which the fathers Of our
own revolution, in the recorded annals of
Congress, honored and g~lorifed as the au-
gust allies Of American Independence?
Shall we not rejoice. that ancient Geroa.
ny, whose integrity Of character ia preserv-
ed in her numerous descendants settled a.
round us, is liberated from her disgrace and
dependency Shall we not rejoice. that
Prussia is risen from her fall, and the splen-
dor of her ranaa revived by a pupil. of tho
| great Frederick ? That hapless Portugal
has been snatched from extinction And re.
publican Switzerland relieved from the ra-
| pacity and insolence Of the minions Of her
pretended MEDIATOR Shall we avow no
pleasure, that Holland, for so many years
subjected to the bitterest tribuiation-Hol-
land, the early friend of American liberty
whose has persisted under the
same malevolent influence that has blight
ed our own-Shall we not rejoice, that
Holland is no longer tributary to violence
and exaction? The banners of Orange and
The Bourbon white, once hoated in hon.
ofable league with our good old flag of
thirteen stars And shall we evince no .
qualification in the prospect, that the re-
pearance of these long lost emblems may
prove the general harbinger of returning
trade, tranquility and order Will we not
exult in the restoration of so many nations
to their rights and p~rivileges-in the renew
al amongst them of harmonious intercourse.
instead Of the prevalence of invetcrate and
sanguinary rage-and in the assurance of a
just balance in Europe, which promises
durable peace and diffusive prosperity
throughout a hemisphere with which our
prosperity and peace are vitality connected.
As men and christians, so!icitous of tho
good of our species, we are specially called
upon to exult in the display of compassion
ate forbearance and benignity, ofwhich the
magnanimons and excellent Alexander, the
soul of the confederacy, exhibited 50 bright
an example in those memorable proceedings
which terminated the sway of the fnffan
scourge of man, the impious derider and
~violatof of all ties, human and divine. We
are called upon to demonstrate a pious Joy.
that an ~overbearing power has ceased to ex-
list, which systematically encouraged crime
and made virtue tremble-that an awful
and t~ranscendant warning is presented to
the pride of guilt, never to elate itself in
success, and a happy edmonton to the
faithful, never to despair in adversely
:" Blessed is the man who has net walked
in the council of the ungodly land who so
dwelleth under the defence of the most high,
shall abide under the shadow OF the Al
niuhtyD