Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1814-07-14
GRAFTON.

VISA Ill l0ASo
IT'S poyr.-The long sgony is over
The Bour5ons are. restored, France repo-
ses IN the arms Of her legitimate prince
We may now express our attachment TO HER
consistently with the respect we owe to OUR
SELVES. We recall to remembrance that
interesting period. when, in the Fellowship
of arms. our souls were mingled at the
conyiyial feast. ard our blood on the field
of glory. We look. exuitirg. e. the plain
of York. There French end American
troops con'ended, in generous strife, who
first should reach the goal of victory
There, the contest for independence was
, closed. There, IVES sealed our title to be
Numbered among the nations.
Thank God, we can, at length, avow
the sentiments of gratitude to that august
family. UNDER whose sway tAe fleets and
armies of France and Spain y7ecs ARA we'd
in defence Of American liberty. We tnen
hailed bonis the sixteenth protector of the
rightseof mankind We loved him. We
6eploved his fate. We are unsuilied by the
embrace of his assassins Oar wishes. our
prayers, have accompanied the loyal Span.
iasds in their struggle and We blush that
hmericars were permitted to offer only
s~t%He~sRa Sps e=s. q
III ny Interesting, how instructive. the
hista~v Of the last five and twenty years
IN the Go"i7g &c 1889. the states general
Of France wore convened to ward off i'm
PENDING bankruptcy. The arrangement
Of their finances was occasioned by the
common artifce of cheating people into a
hel5ef TINT deb.s may be safely incurred
~,s4LN,A - ro,t~r. &c a o-~n a-.el. -
been made BAT no funds provided. At the
opening of that august assembly. the min
ister Of finance declared it would have
been easy to cover the deficit, without
calling them together, but the king wish
Cd tnear aid so correct abuses.
This ha zardons experiment terminated,
as was foreseen, by intelligent observers,
in the ovsrthrow of ancient establishments.
The States. Genera! usurped. under the
name Of National Assembly, Unlimited
power, and used it with an eqnal want of
wisdom and Justice. They destroyed the
rights of property /; issued paper money;
framed an impracticable system of govern.
ment. and released their king from a pr
son to place him or \ throne, whose
foundation they had undermined. Their
successors overturned i, in less than a year,
AMI again threw the king into prison,
whence. in less than six months, he
was led 10 the seaiold.
This v~irtuons monarch, our friend in
tae hour of dangeg. was the victim OF his
own goodness. MISUNDERSTANDING "a stae-
iiorase the condition of subjects, tor whom
he felt the fondness Of a fstner. he thought
no sacrifice of power too great if it could
promote their felicity. lie had been per-
suadeA that his ~Prerogatiye, useless to him,
WAS oppressive TO them. Dangerous errorl
iEehad been told, and believed, that in
their loyalty he had . perfect defence a.
saius, the intrea g1es of Turbulent dema-
seg1ss, Fassh deiasion! Fhis Just, this
nerifal pslnees was led to execution amid
she insulting ..o4rs o. a feTocious mob
lie was grsr Re !s5g mt6tfN wao felt hor
rlr. At H. entire. TlaEE9al victim collect
elm him eft, WIS oceopied, during The
hong procession IN beseeching the dtyin,
rraicssy To prlon his rebelli9us subjects
Bit he ~struga. which severed from tho
bow his ianscsnt head. cut them OF from
knrgivencssg until they should have 'xpiat
edthe crime by i~engtnsned years Of mise
~ tt
Oh. Il wrsa crime against nature an
against heaven. n murder most foul ant
crusL. A deed at which tends might hav
waps. / was in Paris, | saw the gush c
sorrow. Iheard ths general Groan. Eve
IT, bosom anticipated the sentence OF a
apenging God. II was like q second fall {
man An swaul scene Of Ahiction, gull