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APPLICATION. 



WHEN men in power lose sight of justice and 

 mercy, and cruelly and unjustly tyrannise over the 

 people under their sway, they never will gain sin- 

 cere reverence or respect from the rest of mankind. 

 The injuries they inflict in the hey-day of their 

 wicked career, will be remembered with detestation 

 through life; and when age and impotence lay hold 

 of them, they must not expect to meet with friends 

 they never deserved ; but may be certain of being 

 treated with neglect and contempt, and the baser 

 their enemies are, the more insolent and intolerable 

 will be tbe affront. It will then be discovered, 

 with bitter remorse, that the days have passed 

 away, in which virtue and dignity ought to have 

 laid the foundation of a reputation which would 

 have been the solace of old age, and also, extended 

 a good name to posterity with feelings of venera- 

 tion; instead of which the remembrance of past 

 crimes will haunt the guilty mind, and the unjust 

 man will at last be thrown into the grave with the 

 common dust, amidst the whispers of "Let him 

 go;" and he will be no more remembered than the 

 animals on which he feasted, or the herbage which 

 was cut down when he was a child. 



