Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1814-07-09

blv had left, were now Called ioflh W u
verawe the faction Of the Gironde. HE
assembly surrounded by armed men,
maiori,y was frightened into sentence
of death against their innocent captive
= sentence which the intelligent foresaw
we,.ld involae their avn. -
And so il did. The inexorable Danton
dragged them befsre his revolutionary
tribunal, aud poured their blood OF the
scaffold wet with that other murdered
monarch, Thus, every circumstance
of guilt and shame was comblneo' !"
their last moments, to embiuer the oi'-
terness Of death,
On the same scaffold, condemned oy
the same judges, persisted Danton n''n,
| self He persisted, conspiring to psacs
| the imprisoned son ON the throne OF
| father whom he had labored to destroy
| He bel eyed that Louis the SiXteeh'h
| had been too much disgraced to reign
| over proud nation. Combining tne'e'
fore, the courage Of hero with the Ell,
ersy of a copspiralo', and unres;raine'
oy religion or mercy, he determined TO
| strike off the head which se thought I'm,
| fit 10. 9 crown. In the rapid mafch OF
f4te his own soon fell. lnsulted WIN
he ssnblance oftrial, convicted without
| proof, concerned unheard he reared
in voice Of thunder, II have been told,
! and now believe, that tbs punishment OF
! man is the fruit of his crime. Wretch
es | gave you the power OF doomlng IN
| nocence to death, and hr your docm'
1 must Tie. The same justice shall over
take those who sent me here and you
also ''-rhs Voice ofthe savage was pro
phetic.
Those who slaughtered their prince
and made havoc of each other; those
| WHO endeavored 70 dethrone the hing
! Of Heaven and establish the worship ol
| human reasoD--wha placed, as repre-
| sentative of the Goddess Of ReasoB,s
| prostitute on the s,ar which piety had
| dedicated to the holy virgin, and Tell
down aud paid to her their alteration
| were, 1t length, compelled to see and to
feel, and in agony, to osn that there Is
| a God. cannot proceed. My heart
| ~,ckens ar the recollection ct those hor-
ro,s Which desola,ed France That
ch,rm,ng 5untry, on which the bounty
| OF heaven have lavished blessings was
me prey of monsters. To tellthc crimes
every whore and every hour perpetraled,
| would wound he SOU IT humanity, and
shock the ear of modesty. But where,
nv country . where shall hide the
! blush, that these monsters were taken to
your bosom
retract the charge Nation OF
the earth believe not thc impntatisn.
The yirtuous sons OF America were not
guilty of insratitude Much as they
love liberty, ,heaname ofiiherty did no.
| drive from their hearts the great TREND
of liberty, THE PROTECTOR OF THE
RIGHTS OF MANKIND. No, holy mar
tyr their grateful bosoms re.echocd
thy dying groan In humble submits
sion they viewed events whose mystery
they could not comprehend, and vailed
the Development of eternal wisdom.
They beheAd liceDtious crime, under
tire name of liberty, roaming over the
| broad surface of France, seeking virtue
for its prey, defiiing innocence, despoil
| ing poverty, and laying the very face of
| nature waste. They saw it voracious
at home, victorious abroad, every where
! triumphant. Europe was appalled,
! Her princes trembled. The new hatch.
ed, untledged, French republic scared,
as on eagle pi-ions, beyond the clouds
| Dszzled by the iustre of her victories,
the moral eye could scarcely perceive
the guilt OF those profligate leaders who
| dictated law to "a PROSTATE world. Drunk
with success, Strengthening their coun-
trymen, pillasing their neighbors, Sc.
ducing subjects from their allegiance,
and preceding the storm OF conquest by
the poison Of corruption, they revilcd
whatever antiquity and custom had rem.
dered respectable, made sport Of reIi-
gion, treated public law as romantic nom
sense, and trampled on the decencies of
| private life. Yet they found admirers
every where. What wonder that they
should have found adherents here This
country is not without bank,upts, both
in fortune and in fame; nor fiery spi.
rits promoted by ambition There are
among US some who, wishing to be
! great, disdain to be good who, in pur-
suit ei riches and power, indifferent to
right and wrong take the nearest way.
Many, tso, there are who ignerantly
swallow every idle tale. Many who,
pulled up with conceit, will no longer
listen to truth when she offers instruc-
ton. A mind bloaled by vanity loves to
feed on falschood, and drink the fisttery
by which its dropsied understanding is
drowned. But in that moment when
crowned heads in Europe crouched to
the French directory, An Insult aimed
at the honor of America was instantly
| resented This djpnj6ed conduct re