Gazette Of The United States

The conduct of the advocates for despotism, by calumniating with misconstructions, as absurd as they are atrocious, the natural exultations of freemen, when they perceive millions of their fellow creatures gloriously emancipating themselves from the shackles of lawless power, reminds us of the too just observation of Voltaire—"that persons are always to be found who have nothing in their composition which belongs to either the age, or the country in which they exist."

America, though happy under her own free Government, does not view the commotions in Europe without much concern. Situated, as she is, in a sequestered corner of the earth, she is determined to repose herself for a long while yet to come in tranquillity, without meddling with the affairs of other nations. Peace and friendship are all she claims, and all she desires. Her commerce is flourishing, and her revenue laws so well regulated, that at the close of the two first year's experience of her new constitution, she found in the public treasury, after deducting all the current expenses of Government, a million towards discharging the National Debt.