Justin states that it was an insurrection among the _Slaves_! We do not presume to contradict the record of any Historian, but would rather use every effort to support their statements by facts and evidence, as in the instance of Herodotus concerning the first Voyage around Africa;--but the record of Justin cannot be founded in truth, so far as relates to the supposed class of human beings rising against their Monarch and his Council. Tyrus had no _Slaves_, in the usual acceptation of the word,--for she had no foreign conquests,--and her subjects were too proud to allow of any but themselves to pilot or man their galleys,--either for merchandise or warfare;--nor would she allow foreigners to live within her walls, especially of the lower ranks of life, lest they should obtain the secret of ship-building, and so convey intelligence to other nations bordering upon the Mediterranean. But ancient writers have generally viewed the _tiers état_,--or the third class of despotic Empires and Kingdoms as _Slaves_, and so have written of them. Even to so late a period as half a century ago, the same was done in France, till her Revolution (although it moved in blood and tyranny, and brought to light human-monsters) established that the People were to enjoy rights and liberties; in analogy with those claimed and exercised by the Islanders of Britain, or their descendants in the Western Hemisphere. The great National lesson was first taught the World by the Rebellion of the Patriot,--Jeroboam, and the Ten Tribes,--from the "whip" and "scorpion" Son of Solomon! The Rebellion of Jeroboam was but 500 years before this period, [475 B. C.] and from the great intercourse between the Judæans and Tyrians, the event must have been familiar to the latter, and may have had its natural influence, therefore, in forwarding a similar action of their own.