Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1823-11-19
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From Lord Clarsndon's Esssys.
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They who allow no war at all TO be
lawful, have consulted both nature and
religion much better than they who
think it may be, entered inAo to comply
with the ambition, coyetousness, or re-
venge Of the greatest princes and mon
srchs upon the earth: as if God had on
ly inhibited single murders, and left
mankind to be tnassacred according to
the humor and appetite of unjust and un.
reasonable men Of what degree or quail.
ity soever. They rho think il most
unlawful, know well that force NAV be
repealed with force; and that no man
makes war who doth only defend what
is his own from an attempt of violence
he who kills another that he NAV NOT
be killed himself by him who attempts
il, is not guilty of murder by the law of
God or man. And tfuly, they who are
the cause and authors of any war that
can justly and safely be avoided, have
great reason TO fear that they shall be
accountable before the supreme Judge
for all the rapine and devastation. all the
ruin and damage, as well as the blood.
that is the consequence of that war
War is licence 10 kill and sIay an those
who in habit that land, which ID there
fore called the enemy's, because he who
makes the war hath mind 10 possess IL;
and must then not May Of the laws Of
God, as well as Of man, be cancelled
and abolished, before man can honest
ly execute or take such licence -
What have the poor inhabitants Of that
land done that they must be destroyed for
cultivating their own land, in the coun-
try where they were born and can
any king believe that the names 6fthose
are left out of the records of Gods cre-
alton, and that the injuries done to them
shall not BIO consideredg War il a de-
population, defaces all that art and in
dustry hath produced, destroys all plan
tations, burns churches and palaces. and
mingles them in the same ashes with the
cottages ofthe peasant and the laborer:
it distinguishes not Of age, OF sex. or
dignity, but exposes all things and per,
sons sacred and profane, to the same
contempt and confusion; and reduces all
that blessed order and harmony, which
hath been the product Of peace and
religion, into the chaos it was frst in !:
as if it would contend with the Almighty
in uncreating what he SO weDderfully
created, and since polished. And Is il
not most detestable thing to open a
gap TO let this wild boar enter into the
garden of Christians, and to make all
this havoc and devastation in countries
planted and watered by the equal Re-
deemer Of mankind, and whose ears are
open 10 the complaints of the meanest
person who Is oppressed? 1t is no an
swer TO say that this universal suffer-
ing, and even the desolation that attends
il, are the inevitable consequences and
events of war, how warrantably soever
entered into, but rather an argument.
that no war can be warrantably entered
into, that may produce such intolerable
mischiefs; at least If the ground be not
VIGOROUSLY just and necessay, and like
TO introduce as much benefit to the world
as damage and Inconvenience 10 part
OF 1t; and as much care taken as 10 nos.
sible, to suppress that rage and licence,
which Is the wantoH canse Of half flte
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