Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-07-07

A respectable meeting Of Citizens of the
adjoining Counties of Maryland and Virgi-
MIA being held, agreeably to public notice,
on Friday the lst day of July, 1914, at
Shepherd's-Town on the Potomack river. in
Jefferson County, Virginia, Col. JOSEPH
SWEARlNGEN of Virginia, was appoint
ed Chairman, and JOHN HANSON
THOMAS, Esq. of Maryland, Secretary.
The following preamble and resolutions
were proposed and adopted.
The individuals composing this assem-
blage have witnessed with anxiety, during
the whole of the two last years, the pro
gress OF that series of events which has
lately resulted in the emancipation of Eu-
rope, and the reinforcement . the cruel
usurper who has so long trampied its hap.
plness under foot. At the commencement
OF the period just mentioned the political
horizon was darkened by black and por-
tentous clouds. Europe, America, nay.
the whole civilized world, had cause to an,
prehend the final establishment of a roth.
less military despotism, on the ruins Of
those institutions, which the wisdom of
ages had built up and cemented.
Napoleon sonaparte, a conqueror as dis
.tfnguished for his military talents and good
fortune, as he was Infamous for his crimes.
was then at the head of six hundred thou
sand soldiers, the elite of France, Italy and
Germany, whom he was leading into the
heart of Russia, with but too fair a pros
pecs OF removing by her subjugation, the
only serious obstacle to his supremacy on
the continent The continent once subdu-
ed, and all its naval and military resources
at the disposal of the conqueror-Great-
Britain, Notwithstanding the valour Of her
soldiers and the military talents of her ge
%nerais, must have yielded to so vast a SUI
periority OF force, and submitted TO share
the common lot Of Europe. The whole Of
that warlike quarter of the globe would
then nave DO wed to one sceptre, and that
scepsre welded by a man whose hatred of
republics has been evinced by the whole
tenor OF his conduct-whose ambition is
without limits-whose heart knows no re-
!entings. The physical force of Europe,
directed by such a hand would quickly
have Frustrated in the dust that glorious
tabric which the heroes of our revolution
reared, and both hemispheres would have
trembled at the name of Napoleon. The
whole civilized world under the govern,
meht OF one despot, and Suc.5 a deSpot
would have exhibited a picture, at the con.
temptation of which every friend Of hu.
manity must shudder.
Literature and the arts, biighted and
wIthered by the touch of despotism, perish,
ing Observation-Disclosures succeeding to re
h'iement, ignorance to knowledge and POI
verify to wealth-the freedom of sueecb and
OF the press every where d~estroyed-a sys-
TEN OF universal espionage established
every liberal idea proscribed-every in
dependent voice smothered-the silence of
death and the darkness of despotis.n hover
ing over one halfthe globe silence in
terrupted only by the voice of fattery. striy.
ing, by a monstrous scaffolding of lies. to
conceal such a multiplicity Of HORRORS
such Is the picture which the final success
OF Bonaparte would have presented to the
eye OF sickening humanity.
WIN all these monstrous and aecnmnla.
tea evils were we and the nations Of En-.
rope threatened, but two years since. when
.he triumphant eagles of France were bend
ing .helr flight toward Moscow. But the
hand OF heaven interpcsed, and rescued the
world from a slavery so CALLING.
The fury of the elements coDspirea with
she avenglng sword of the Russians to sween
.r9 'he race OF the earth that vast multi.
,Iue winch the south had poured out on
ehe north Europe began to breathe. Ger.
many awoke-and by a omh;nat;aS -.
general and more powerful tbsn ~ .nnDiS
has ever seen before. France .,as 49,
within her ancient limi,s-tbs h,"aS 49,
usurper was hurled from h;s tSsan~