Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1817-09-30
EUROPE.

EUROPE.
Livery article ofin,elligcncc that reaches
as from Europe. represent that continent
al enjoying shuesleSsings OF peace. a plen-.
siful har,rs, vii! now reward The laoour oil
the husbsndman, and the horrors OF famine
aud Of starvation, by which the continent
was threatened. arc dissipaied and almost
forgotten The people begin 10 feel the
blessings Of reyising industry, and there y
certainly no immediate prospsct OF blood
and OF carnage. Exhausted as the CONT
mental powers have been, hy such lremen-
dous struggles for al that i dear 70 them,
they will no, on light and frivolous occa-
sion, unchsin The demon OF havoc and OF
carnage they know by experience the
countless hazards and the rniserirs OF war.
Sill there are not wanting those restless
and unquiet spirits, who were nursed al the
bosom of battle They look with horror
and despondency on the dull pursuits OF
civil life. The ripening grain, that seems
TO nod as IL 10 welcome the sickle oil the
usbandmsn-industry and content, smil.
inc in the beautiful hamlets and villages
sheep reposing beneath the shades OF the
quiet mansion, or bounding over the mead
ows-the flaxen locks Of infancy, and the
grey hairs of old age reclining over the i'm
plemenls of industry, by which the fruitful
bosom OF the earth is exposed 10 the beams
OF the sun--all these endearing objects ex-
cite no transport to minds Injured 10 revolu-
ton and to blood. They sicken at such
sprctacles as those we have mentioned, and
sigh for the return of that season when their
ears may be once more delighted by the
lamentations of the widow and of the or
phan. they feel The same rancor at the
sight of human felicity, that the author OF
ak evil did when he first beheld The joys Of
paradise. II is,rue, these wicked and IN
| quiet hends are now walking to and fro
upon the earth, rnuuering curses as they
walk-they are no longer formidable, be-
cause their internal confederacy has been
broken--they are watched, closely watched
in every movement, and they arc compelled
to nurse in silence their 'ferocious and SAN
! culinary passions. They have now no re-
source lex but the circulation OF idle ru-
mors and alarms, to mar that felicity which
they are unable utterly to destroy. This
constitutes the only enjoyment oil these ma
lignant hends, and they are now and then
able 10 make proseIytes OF the timid, or TO
impose on the understandings olthe credu-
lous and of the unweary. But even this
miserable consolation is for any length oil
time denied. The torch oftruth soon dis
sipates all the illusions of such malignant
minds, and they are condemned 10
behold smiling counsenances, abundant
fields, and all the evidences of peace and oil
prosperity. No wonder they fly from such
/ spectacles-no wonder they seek any cor
ner OF the earth, where there is the Sigh
test prospect Of carnage and OF revolution
But our countrymen have so often been
made the dupes OF such restless and wicked
splrits-and they have SO ofren lent viii
ling ear 10 their tales Of evil, that we pre-
sumo they will not suffer their minds to BE-
SO celuded again they owe it to them
selves to listen with distrust and suspicion
to such rumours, and not to take the malig-
nant wishes and hopes Of those who fabrl-
cate such stoIies as prophecies. Let our
fellow-citlzens regard these reports as eyi-
dences only of the wiskedness OF those who
are employed in their promulga.ion-they
prophecy, because they entertain faint
hope by 50 doing to bring abou, the very
event that they are so benevolent in pre-
dicting.--Thty are enemies to human qui-
ct and happiness in every shape, and they
are now busily employed in the dissemina-
ton OF terrific rumours, because they Car
no longer be employed IN the dissemina
ton of file Brands and OF daggefs. We
ask how many the human race would go
in qnietto their slumbers, il these demons
in human shape held the destiny of men
Not one. Our hre-sides would be CONVEX
ted into sepulchres: every step of these
demons would be marked by hse-brands
and BY blcod--they know ONO enjoyment
but what is connected with the misery o
man-thcy were nursed by carnage and
murder, and blood is as much their vita
element, as water is that oil The fnny
race Raitimorr Telegraph.