The Daily Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31.

It is astonishing, says a Correspondent, that the Centinel and other antifederal papers should charge the new federal constitution with being calculated to promote the interest of what he, invidiously, calls the well born. All men in America are equally well born. We are all freemen, and the sons of freemen, and the proposed government is founded on that principle; for it guarantees our Republicanism, and it secures to the poorest the right of electing, equally with the richest and most haughty. It renders every office attainable by the poorest, as certainly as the richest and most haughty. These antifederal gentlemen do not like such a government, but happily—the people do. These writers sometimes abuse our good men, and then steal out the paragraphs when they find they disgust. The Centinel, in his first number, treats General Washington, and Dr. Franklin with contempt, and then translates his piece into German, and leaves out the vile sentences. Our Germans are an honest, thinking body of men, and will despise this trick, which the Centinel has attempted to pass on them.

What a variety of methods do the opposers of our new constitution pursue, to prevent the adoption of it. A New-York writer under the signature of Brutus, wishes to have three confederacies, that is, three times the officers, and three times the expense of the proposed plan. If the union is preserved, it can have nothing to fear from the British Colonies on the North, or the Spaniards on the South; but if it should be divided into three parts, European politics would soon play off one against another.