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SPAXISU COLOXIES.In every country, there are a »et of men whose con--Ctitutional or bdbkoal cowardice admonishes them to prefer the most degrading bondage to baring their bosoms in the battle-field—-who, rather than risk a ballet, quietly abandon their honor and reputation, by meanly avoiding danger. Unhappily for mankind, this recreant Spirit is too widely and generally diffused over most parts of the world. Without conferring one benefit on sodcty, it invites aggression and engenders baseness.— The coward! is, of all men, the most likely to be treadtercua. Not daring to resent an injury openly, be masks his hatred under the'assumed-smile of cheerfuL seas, till an opportunity offers for satiating his rankling heart, by raising the assassin’s poniard or lighting thei .torch of the incendiary. lie is ever an object of aversion to the brave, and often becomes a contemptible vassal of rapacious ambition. Cowardice Jias, indeed, paved the way to the subversion of almost every great- nation of antiquity. Borne, Greece, Assyria, Egypt—all owpd their pvertfcrow to the dfgneracy of their troops. Ttve came cause has had a leading agency in promoting the humiliation of almost every depraved people in existence: In the enslavement of India by the British, of China by the Manshurs, cjT Mexico and Pern by the Spaniards, of western Asia, Egypt and Greece by the Turcomans, and of modern Italy by the Germans, French and Spaniards l—ve perceive the misery that flows from a tameness of disposition, and the intimacy which usually subsists between superstition and timidity.
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Savannah Republican
Savannah, Georgia, US
Thu, Jun 19, 1817
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