Gazette Of The United States, & Daily Advertiser

CHARLESTON, July 10.

On the murder of John Hammond, Esquire:
An account of which was published some time since.

Atonement shall come, clothed in judicial terrors. Thy blood, which so many of thy friends saw bursting from thy wound, demands vengeance. The earth hath drank its material part, its essential property hath been borne on the wings of accusation, to Heaven's throne : thence it shall roll in awful thunder o'er the guilty head. It shall glare in vivid lightnings, — and smite the murderer's heart. He who, envious of thy independent feelings, thy prosperity in life, and the hardihood of thy character, tempted the assassin to the bloody deed, already quakes ! Methinks I see him shivering with terror at every breath of wind. Yes! " tremble, thou wretch, that hadst within thee undivulged crimes—unwhipt of justice. Thou shalt repay. eye for eye; and groan for groan, ten thousand fold ; 'till, racked and tortured by fear and remorse, in the convulsive pangs of conscience, thou wilt gladly seek relief by an avowal of thy crimes: Miserable comfort, the seal of thy destruction !- Then shalt thou exclaim, in the bitter language of Satan,

Me miserable, which way shall I fly?
Infinite wrath and infinite despair!
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell
And in the lowest deep, a lower deep!
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide.
To which the hell I suffer seems a Heaven!