Alexandria Daily Advertiser

The natives of the forest are represented as worshipping their gods from fear, and as considering them as cruel and malignant beings, whose anger they can appease only by the deepest self abasement, and the most severe corporeal chastisements. Some of the Gentile nations, mentioned in scripture, offered up their children as sacrifices to Moloch; but these were the practices of heathen and barbarous nations. In more modern times, in a country distinguished as the most polished on earth, and at a period exceeding all others for the general diffusion of light and knowledge, we find a degree of adoration paid to a man which falls little short of the ostensible worship offered up to the gods of the heathen, or the Moloch of the Gentiles. When we read the addresses to the Chief Consul of France as he passed through his country, we perceive a species of worship not more rational than what is offered to the Deities of the most barbarous nations.
We see homage paid to a being who commenced his career by cutting in pieces the unarmed citizens of Paris, when convened to assert their constitutional rights to a free election; who with fire and sword desolated the plains of Italy; who murdered his captives in cold blood at Jaffa; who poisoned his own poor wounded soldiers that had followed him from their country, their wives, and their children; and who now wages war against law, liberty, and social happiness for the gratification of his own ambition.