The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-09-08
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Inn ,..a.,,ly dependent on a Guelph o
of p,nrboa for his throne That t's 's%
. - would have sarr's'ned htr ''''' . ~"
ifo'P' IA an h,r fields, to secure by force
eoe'" ,r,ri,v of THE Empire Yet such Is
''' 49,, s,ain, which almost gave Ia"
,'1 r ' in the sixteenth century and !"
u - - with Portugal. na'i5ated ~
eo'l fore unknown, and peopled worlds
e'@ e.. undiscoyered, has almost become .
w. IN The map. ImPoient in power'anu
~. ',' by internal dissensioos' the colonies
i''' ,a1 IN the pew world, have, with
s' .,,ion uf Cuba, dissolved their po-
~ .....ction with the mother country.
arscted independent cnnfederaeies.
- ,b,one of the Empire, even mods 10
too, who about thesame
,,.s ,nread her came abroad and by the
49, .,,sry and settlement Of Brazil, aud by
,ocnpsts, uuder Albuquerque, IN Asa,
.3srcd herself knownand Ieared--~haf is
"a But little ltnown, and leas respected
.....,;tiso hangs,lke an imperViouselond
18th lands. and despotis,gi borIp"S
=, currgy from rs universal ally Pa
,p,n,. even under the sway ct Alex
WI WAS never degraded by a more
-h..ct .nbmissiuu TO the dictates OF an IN
....,d and tyranncal Priesthood. Under
,oaoenrr of its policy, every generous
and enn5bIins sentiment nIthtrs aud DIES
81, ,,,x, admit that occasionally il CLEAN
,r,h, Ina, broken through this despotIsn;
s.,,t bas sotn persisted 1t is impossible,
It'll ,sason ard kno wledge shall have more
.,orlly.difrused their influence, in those
:, c.,sd countries, that tile chains Of tyran-
yr,n be broken. The spirits of the Peo-
.i. have been so long deadened, by unln-
nfrnpted submission, that, although they
49,, no alirred to resistance for Il moment,
,,e hast check will pat stop TO their ex-
,fions. and they will AS quietly sink into
death like Itthargy, az if they had never
br,n reused from their inslorious stupor.-
4 Tbey had rather endure the yoke, than en-
aoontpr the exerlon 0fthrowing it off their
necks. They have had pOrIlsr aud a Ri
ego among them, both pointing out the
.oad to liberty and both ending their glo-
rious career on scaifud g. the very rab-
b4e who had enlisted under their standard,
uerp the first to resile them when they had
hcn defeated, aud, TO turn their craven
.raks upon Them when they We're led 10
execution. Miserable recreants . To feed
rhr fire, when its blaze shone brightly. and
bp the first 10 queDch it, when It's briIiancy
kgan to wane Spain, Portugal, ard TIA
ID the three countries over which the arts
u polished life began FIST to diluse their
faieure, L whose power was most dread
I'd. are NOW, all of them, sunk to the mos
emtemptIble ciicpinacy all incapable Of
pfotect,g themselves, and all upheld by
Foreign hayonets all dreadins the remo-
Nofhcse hayoatt5 as the signal q new
ct}Qsinns, fresh wars, and continued cx-
aco1s and expressions ali ruled by I'M
potent maaarchs. aud all cnslaved by the
gOssc5t superstition Yet, VINO shall ven-
tire to predict the sntGstr0phe ? We have
pl,nessr3 in the last twenty five years,
strange ents. To say nothing cf cur own
great re- ltion, we have s.en the down
fall and Ia rise of Empires in another hem
hahere. We have seen Il people, goaded
D. oppression 10 resistance, resortiug to
fle sword, aud hurting rs tyrants- TO the
Lsrih We have seen that same people
hthc uncgshed madness of licentiousness
tdupIlng on the most sacred bonds OF So.
er'! With one hand tearing down the
&mpes ofJustice. and with the other de
fcas the affairs Of God. We have seen a
@'IrSs mob, snatchuS lhc rcins of power,
Unable 10 restrain the Violence of the Car
put IL molion, until lis rapidity and force.
aAe That nj Phrtua, had set the world on
hr' We have hchell this same mob,
"1ro threatened with danger, aggrceaiins
might, and presenting wall of bristlios
oyo0t'' 10 Ms foes. Aud we have seen
'f'e hes retiring from the contest beaten
VII ulseomTitted. Even tais is not all. The
s'' otone man brought together the
a"ai'ciary and opposing rlcmcnts of
Wis tremendous revolution. and drew or !er
WIN Chaos, In his tara, h" tramp!rd up
Ills tith, and aimed at universal cmpile
hsamshty Colossus, he brstrode Eu-
'Pf' and tranpled on the crowns OF hong
'' 'IN RSs. The Spanish monarch be-
.,''' us pfsouer--twice was his standard
y, 'a'''d on the walls of Vienna, and twice
~ '"e ffnssnn capital surrender to his
mus AIMS Yet, he, too, when the
. ''','o Capital was occa.t.ed by Ii, troops,
''' 1t APPEARED thatOnIv onp mnrn htay