THE MOHAWKS;

A
SATIRICAL POEM

WITH
NOTES.

"Quid faciant leges ubi sola pecunia regnat "Aut ubi paupertas vincere nulla potest ? "Ipsi qui cynica traducunt tempora cæna "Nonnunquam nummis vendere verba solent; "Ergo judicium nihil est nisi publica merces "Atque eques in causâ qui sedet, empta probat." Petronius Arbiter. "The Stagyrite's dull rules in vain were made, "Since critics now give judgment—as they're paid. "Our self-denying saints with truth make bold, "And prize all doctrines only—as they're sold. "While Justice' self leans lightly on the scribe, "Who libels—on the right side—for a bribe." LONDON: PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN AND CO.
1822.
LONDON: PRINTED BY COX AND BAYLIS, GREAT QUEEN STREET. "For this reason I could not forbear communicating to you some imperfect information of a set of men (if you will allow them a place in that species of being), who have lately erected themselves into a fraternity, under the title of the Mohawk-Club, a name borrowed, it seems, from a sort of cannibals in India, who subsist by plundering and devouring all the nations about them. "Agreeable to their name, the avowed design of their institution is mischief; and upon this foundation all their rules and orders are framed. An outrageous ambition of doing all possible hurt to their fellow creatures is the great cement of their assembly, and the only qualification required in the members."— Spectator. "Quelques pamphlétaires obscurs associés à des spéculateurs avides, vendaient leurs plumes pour servir bassement toutes les passions haineuses et honteuses; l'esprit de parti et l'esprit de cupidité s'emparaient d'un moyen facile d'exploiter,—la curiosité et la méchanceté des hommes; et les reputations les plus honorablés étaient livrées sans défense aux traits empoisonnés de la calomnie." "Une déplorable impunité encourageait les éditeurs de ces productions monstrueuses; et quoique elles fussent justement signalées à l'opinion, comme indignes de toute croyance, elles trouvaient souvent accès auprès d'un certain nombre d'hommes. "Dans ces honteux monumens de la licence et de la perversité humaines, le crime puissant est seul protégé par des ménagemens officieux, ou même il est erigé en vertu. Le mérite modeste et solitaire, la vertu indépendante courageuse, qui n'appartiennent à aucun parti, à aucune coterie, mais à la justice, à la verité, à la patrie, sont abreuvés de calomnies et d'outrages." — Revue Encyclopédique.
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Courtesy of University of California, Davis. General Library. Digital Intitiatives Program.; http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp
http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt3199p636&brand=oac4
Title: Mohawks
By:  Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, creator, British Women Romantic Poets Project
Date: 1998 (issued)
Contributing Institution: University of California, Davis. General Library. Digital Intitiatives Program.; http://digital.lib.ucdavis.edu/projects/bwrp
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