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

The prayers OF the righteous are fulfilled.
The suIerings OF innocence are assuagsd-
Painful anxiety gives place to devour ex-
ultation. Fidelity is relieved of it's appre-
tensions Dagger is now past of the worst
and most degrading of all evils. An over
shadov7inz spirit OF mischief and pollution
no longer sits embodied in the highest seat
O. earthly domination lit is put down. and
thrust OUT OF the strong hold, from whence
il lately issued against evero civilized re-
gion, under the form either of guile or of
force, going about seeking whom it shall
devour. The fatal source of peril is stop
ped, which threatened to deluge the world
with torrents darkened and acrid with mi
Guilty That proud, aspiring trunk, lately
Hourishing as the green bay tree. is with
cred and hewn down, which supplied and
sustained its branches of corruption. wide
~ and variously spread through neighbor-
Ing and distant chimes. In Che imposing
guaso OF TEMPER and destroyer, a baiefuI,
pFotracted and mighty agency, has. at
fangth, terminated The arm of heaven
has been, at last, visibly sect he'd forth in
pity, to release Christendoua from seryile
terror and i'm pending bondage. The tbu,-
der OF retributive justice has rolled over
the oppressor. The lightning of its venge-
ance has struck the iron crown from his
guilty head. Nations nave risen from n
long night of de5asement and misery
The commissions of a troubled world are
subsiding. The frightful gloom is over
In the ascendant we behold the serene in
tiuence of moral order once more appear
ing. The social system is renewed. illumjn
ed with benevolence and viyiied by hope.
The ways OF God to man are indicated on
earth. Man again is free. The earth re-
lolceth, and all the ends thereof are
glad.
Elevated by this bright spectacle, we
look back with amazement upon the past.
We seen Just TO have escaped from a fear
full and feyerish dream. Providence has
cast our lot in a period of the world the
most e%yentful in all history. The year
1889, the era of the organization of our
national government, was also the epoch.
from whence are to be dated those direful
commotions in Europe, whose progress we
have beheid shaking tAe political frame of
the old world to It's centre, and involving
the peace, the harmony and we'll being Of
this new empire. In the first stage of the
revolutionary proceedings in France. a
generous deldsion became universal in her
favour, wherever the tidings were announc-
sd and in this country, as was naturally
to be expected, public sympathy was most
powerfully excited in the fate of a people.
recently connected with us in the bonds Of
a memorable alliance, VINO now appeared
to be engaged in an arduous struggle for
the establishment of their own freedom
From the gulph of calamity, to which the
delusion would have led, this infant repub
lie was then saved, almost against its will,
by the tutelary care of Washington tever
blessed be his memory the wise and faith
ful guardian of its safety and honor. The
error, indeed, which had been common to
all, soon vanished from the minds of the
most intelligent and rejecting. 1t soon ap-
peared that what had been mistaken for
the genius of liberty, was in truth, the de.
mon Of RIGHTEOUSNESS, goaGed into phrenzy
by a pestilent and restless atheism. Its
character became distinctly marked in star
ing capitals of blood. The hellhounds of
murder and pillage were let loose. All
that was great and good, reputable and
sacred in France, was given up a prey to