National Gazette

[From a correspondent.]

As without breath we cannot exist, so without liberty we cannot enjoy any degree of happiness. The wretch who groans beneath the load of oppression, without any cheering prospect to himself or descendants, is truly miserable, if possessed of sensibility, and instructed by education. Should he be ignorant, he is so far not unhappy with respect to mental feelings; but his corporeal sufferings are undoubtedly great. He toils without hope, and is consigned to the grave without compassion. His body is emaciated by tyranny; and, to make use of a scriptural phrase, the iron has entered into his soul. The period however will shortly arrive, when philosophy and religion shall deliver a suffering race from those evils; and when the gradual progress of reason will unite nation with nation, and colour with colour, blending the rights of man with the expectations of policy and commerce. But let us not be premature in our hopes. This happy event must be the work of deliberation and time. War must first relinguish his fury, and the operations of avarice be refrained; humanity must prove triumphant, and the purest religious system be more generally adopted than at present. Till this glorious period shall arrive, let us exercise that greatest of virtues, "Charity," and mildly lament an evil, which cannot be suddenly removed without convulcing a considerable part of the world.