The New Hampshire Gazette

CONSIDER how we ought to be affected, when they, from whom suspicions have alienated, or rivalry has divided us; they with whom we have long contended, or by whom we imagine ourselves to have suffered, are laid, or about to be laid, in the grave. How inconsiderable then appear those broils in which we have long been involved, those contests and feuds which we thought were to last forever ! The awful moment that now terminates them, makes us feel for their vanity--If there be a spark of humanity left in the breast, the remembrance of our common fate then awakens it. Is there a man, who, if he were admitted to stand by the death-bed of his bitterest enemy, and behold him during that conflict which human nature must suffer at last, would not be inclined to stretch forth the hand of friendship, to utter the voice of forgiveness, and to wish for perfect reconciliation with him before he left the world? Who is there, that, when he beholds the remains of his adversary deposited in the dust, feels not, in that moment, some relentings to the remembrance of those past animosities which mutually embittered their life ? "There lies the man, with whom I contended so long, silent and mute forever. He is fallen : and I am about to follow him. How poor is the advantage which I now enjoy ? Where are the fruits of all our contests ? In a short time we shall be laid together, and no remembrance remain of either of us, under the sun."