Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-08-18

as II to draw down the special chosen curse
Of heaven upon their heads, an uuoffending
monarch, the mildest, and once the best
beloved in the catalogue oftheir sovereigns ;
distinguished for his benignant devotion to
the welfare and wishes Of his people, the
virtuous and pIous Louis the XVIthe friend
OF our forefathers in the day of their dis
tress, was hurried with his injured wife to
a eontumelious death, amidst the curses of
a people, for whom his heart yearned with
parental affection; of a people whom we
have since seen submitting their neeks, in
ignominious bondage, to the vilest and
most atrocious despot that ever trampled
on the human race. To depict the various
deeds Of complicated cruelty and horror.
peFpetrated in France, under the abused
name OF philosophy and republicanism to
trace the miseries inflicted en- surrounding
nations; the plot of ~wickedness against the
peace OF mankind; the rise and nuctuation
OF factions, emulating each other in carnage
and insanity, would lead US to a direfui
contemplation, from which the heart re.
coils with disgust. 1t is sufficient that we
have all witnessed the result. confirming
the experience ofa Al ages, that the appoint
ed end OF anarchy is military despotism.-
A people as distracted and deprayed. are
GLAD at last to escape from their own mi
qulties, and willing to take refuge from
themselves, under the dominion of an alb.
solute master. The people of France were
accordingly prepared by every degree of
suffering and enormity for the endurance
OF The usurpation of the fortunate adyentur-
ef, who, at a critical conjuncture, fayora-
bic to ms tisgitious purpose, returned. like
a fugitive thief, from his army in Egypt-
On MS part, with a mind hardened 10 cru
city, and pfactlsel III every species of a.
domination and fraud, assisted by the most
skiilul and pfoiilgate agents of his will. he
was duly httSd and prepared to establish a
system oil obdurate tyranny, the most grind
ing ana illuminating to its immediate sub
Jects; the most hostile to the happiness and
liberties OF the world. 1t was indeed a sys.
tenn OF intense operation on the minds. as
well as the bodies, OF men, which seemed
To possess the power OF blasting, at pleasure,
Whatever 1t assailed of undermining, Sc.
ducing, contamlnatlng and destroying.-
Inc military code, by which it was upheld.
subjected the whole mass ofthe population.
lac entiie PHYSICAL strength OF the land.
as an ensIne OF machinery, to be welded
IN lhe lands of the remorseless man. Its
ln,efhal police, its swarms of emissaries
anu spies, assuming every shape, and pene-
tfatlhS 1850 evety recess, stifed the very
iaculdeS OF nature, writing under the
aSonles o. toEtured servitude. A monstrous
PHENOMENON presented itselfin the p~olitical
and moral world. Truth was not herebv
suppressed Tor occasional purposes of State
the press was not only enslaved and per
Veited into an instrument of deception
Dat a regular organization of falshood. en-.
tetlpg INTO every device and arrangement
OF poiicy, assumed all the perropatives of
TRUTH ana imposed an implicit belief, WHICH
the multitude were bound to admit. even
against the evidence of their own senses.-
Ine lniuence of this part of the system,
the most perfect of its kind, extended it.
sell, In a greater or less degree, to every
quarter OF the globe, seeking prose ytes,
ana hnaIpg imiSators and adherents. The
entlFe system was a pestilence that walketh
IN darkness, dIffusing contagion over the
ialr face OF nature, bewildering the under
standings, and polluting the souls of its
Vlctlns' The consequences are not to be
aescrioea, although they were every where
seen and felt. The name of Bonaparte,
fatally familiar to every tribe and tongue,
wrought, through long and gloomy period,
like a charm of diabolical incarnation on
the rulers and the ruled. The aspirations
OF virtue were dismayed at that sound
helpless Innocence cried in vain for mercy
neither rank, nor sex, nor age, nor con
ditlon, could expect a mitigation Of the
general doom that finty heart was closed
against the computations visitings of con.
science humanity sighed and mourned
over fallen millions, whose secret groans
and excavations were every day ascending
to the throne of eternal Justice 10 bear wit.
ness against their blasphemous desolater
While the lofty arrogance of his misrule,
every where exalted the pretensions of con
genial vice, rendering him the homage of
Venality. France itself might be consider.
ed as the charnel-house and temple of the
modern Moloch, described by the Asiatic
traveller. There sat in eulIar o~n tha