Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-08-21

tnue at Rome and mlngie IN our assemblies!
With regard to these, indeed, am less intent
on vengeance than to reclaim them, if posi-
hle from their errors and reconcile them to
the Republic. Nor do disc yer any Difficult
ty in the undertaking if they will but listen
to my advice, for first | will show YOU, citi,
zens of what different sorts of men their for
ces consist, and then apply to each, as far as
am able, the most powerful remedies Of per-
suasion and eloqueuee.
1.-The first sort consists Of those who having
great debts, but still greater possessions, are
so pasSionately fond Of the latter that they
cannot bear the thought of infringing them
! This in appearance, is the most honorable
/ class, for they are rich, but their intention
and aim is the most Infamous of all Art
! thou distinguished by the possession of an
estate, houses, money, slaves, and all the
/ cOnveniences and superfuities of life, and
dost thou scruple to take from thy posses
/ sions in order to add to thy credit for what
/ is it thou accepted? Is it war? and dost thou
hope thy possessions will remain unviolated
/ amidst universal invasion Of property?
. The next class consists of those who,
though oppressed with debt, yet hope for pow
/ er, and aspire to the chief management of
public affairs, imagining they shall obtain
! those honors by throwing the State in con
| tusicn which th despair Of during its tran
| guilty. <
"Bnt ! ought not to run the parallel fur
ther or compare your other resources, pre-.
| parations and defences to the indigenoe and
nakedness of that revolt. But if omitting
all these advantages of which we are provi.
ded and he destitute, as the Senate, the Ro
man knights, the people, the city the pub
lie revenues, all Italy, all the provinces, for.
eign States; say, if emitting all these, we
only compare the contending parties between
themselves, it will soon appear how very low
! our enemies have reduced"
We now come to the third Oration. By
means Of an understanding with the Am
bassadors of the Alloborgians, warlike
people from Gaul, settled in the north Of
Italy, and subject to Rome, all the proofs
OF the conspiracy were made complete, the
conspirators having attempted to make this
people their allies. BY this means guam
tity of arms, concealed in the house of
Cethegus, were brought to light, and the
worse features Of the conspiracy made per-
tectly plain to the Senate and to the whole
Roman people.
"To DAY, Romans. you behold the Com
mOnwealth, your lives, estates fortunes your
wives and children, the august seat Of this
renowned empire, this fair and Furnishing
city preserved and restored to you, rescued
from fire and sword, and almost snatched
from the jaws Of fate by the distinguished
love of the immortal gods towards y0u and
by means of my tolls, c0unsels and dangers.
And if the days in Which we are preserved
from ruin be no less than JOYOUS and memor-
able than those of our birth, because the
pleasure of delivsraHce is certain, and the
condition to which we are born uncertain,
and because we enter on the Joys of life with
out consciousness, but are &lways sensible to
the loys %n4 preservation, surely since
our gratitude and esteem for itumuuS the
founder of this city, has induced us to rank
him among the immortal gods, lie cannot but
marit honor with you AID posterty who
have preserved the same city with all
It's accessions Of strength and grandeur
And now, Romans, as the detestable leaders
OF tins ImplOus and unnatural rebellion are
seized and IN custody, you may justly con-
clude that Cataline'S whole strength power
and hopes are broken, and the dangers that
threatened the city dispelled for when was
driving him out of the city, Romans, ] fore
saw that If be was once removed there would
be nothing to apprehend from the drowsiness
Of Lentulus the fat of Cassius, or the rash
ness of Cethegus. He was the only formida-
BILE person Of the whole number, yet no longer
so than when he remained within the walls
OF the city. lie knew everything; he had ac
cess to all places he wanted neither abii-
ties nor boldness to address, to tempt, to So
licit. lie had head to contrive, a tongue to
explain, and hand to execute any underta
king. He had select and proper agents to
be employed in any particular enterprise,
and never took thing to be done because he
had ordered 1t, but always pursued, urged,
attended, and saw it done himself, declining
neither hunger, cold nor thirst. Had | not
driven this man, so keen, so resolute, so dar-
ing, so crafty, so alert in mischief, so active
in desperate designs from his secret plots
within the city, into open rebellion in the
field, / could never so easily, to speak nv
real thoughts, Romans have delivered the
Republic from its dangers.
Can any man after this be such an enemy
to truth, so rash, SO mad as to deny that all
things which we see, and above all, that this
city is governed by the power and providence
of the gods! : And that the Am
bassadors of the Gauls, a nation so dsafec.
ted, and the only one ct present that seems
both able and willing to make a war on the
Roman people, should slight the hope of en-
pire and dominion, and the advantageous of
fers of men of patrician rank, and prefer
your safety to their own interest must needs
be the effect OF Divine interposition, espec
tally when they might have gained their ends,
not by fighting, but by holding their tongues.
Wherefore, Romans, since G thanksgiving has
been decreed at all the shrines of the gods,
celebrate the same religiously with your
wives and children. Many are the proofs of
gratitude you have justly paid to the gods on
former occasions, but never surely were more
apparently due than at present.
In his fourth and last Grafton against Cat
aline, Cicero takes occasion to discuss .he
punishment due the leading conspirators
already in custody, and who, by decree
of the Senate were sentenced to death and
ayanutad tba cor,o H.