It is more than probable that the People disapproved of the payment of the nominal tribute (which was more degrading than any other), and made a remonstrance to the Throne upon the subject,--for their just pride had been aroused, and while they continued to pay to the Persian for mere political existence, they _ceased_ to be a Nation of _Freemen_,--and Justin might consequently have written that _all_ the Tyrians,--King, Nobles, and People, were _Slaves_,--for they were so, while their golden manacles rattled, and echoed along the distant shores of the Euphrates. Tyrus was, also, safe now from any attack by land,--and by water the Capital defied apparently both man and elements. The tribute had been originally imposed and levied upon the National weakness,--it was now to be thrown off in its day of strength. The King who would cowardly surrender, and continue to submit a Nation's liberty to a foreign yoke, while he had power to be free,--and yet was willing to wear and hold the mere shadows of a Crown and Sceptre,--must have been, at heart, no fit guardian, or steward, of a People's honour or prosperity;--and especially, when in the very rank of life, the rights of which he continued to betray,--there was a Spirit--like the Sun--ready to disperse the clouds lowering upon, and obscuring his Country's freedom! This Tyrian Patriot was STRATO,--who, upon the successful issue of the Rebellion, and breaking of the foreign yoke imposed by Persia, was instantly elected Sovereign,--the Royal title continued to his descendants, even to the last King of the Tyrians. 475 B. C.] From this time forward, Tyrus continued not only to enlarge her Navigation, but to increase her _inland_ commerce. One of the chief complaints made by the Prophet NEHEMIAH against his countrymen was,--that their Sabbath was desecrated by buying merchandise of the Tyrians upon the Holy-Day. NEHEMIAH caused the traffickers to be thrust out of Jerusalem more than once, and the Gates to be closed upon them; but they still lingered around the walls in order to sell their commodities on the Jewish Sabbath,--upon which the Chief Ruler of the restored House of Judah, instantly threatened to have recourse to violence, and drive the Tyrian merchants from their locality. This event [434 B. C.] was forty-one years after the accession of the new dynasty. It was no sin in the estimation of the Tyrians to _sell_ upon the Sabbath Day of Israel, for they being heathens they did not esteem that Seventh day:--the crime was, that of _buying_ by the Jews upon their own Sacred Sabbath.--In this manner is it justly reproved by NEHEMIAH: viz.--