Gazette Of The United States

Our Jacobins have been called a faction. They complain of this, and say they are not a faction, but the people. So said the Jacobins of France. But the French nation were not always to be deceived by such means:---they drove these blood-drinkers out of their dens. The public opinion of this country, tho abhorrent to the shedding of blood, is no less decisive against jacobinis. The mobs and absurd resolutions in the large towns, have been discountenanced by the plain and sensible farmers; and thus jacobinis has been confined, with the yellow fever, to dark alleys and the neighborhood of unwholesome docks. The great interest of the country is peace; and the great body of the country people, as well as the men of worth, sense and property, in the sea-ports, have shewn a strong support of the measures that tend to preserve it. Faction has been defined an adherence to interests, inconsistent with the general interest: What then are clubs, to influence elections, and mobs, to overawe a peace-making government, but faction, rank faction? and as such to be detested and suppressed.

It turns out, that those who made the noise about the British Treaty are not the people. The signers of petitions are but as a drop to the ocean. So much clamour, so much lying, so much running, riding and mobbing, and so few names! what can prove more pointedly that the party is weak? Yet more proof to the same point is at hand, tho it is not needed;-the States, Virginia excepted, raise their patriotic voices against the disorganizers.

Now, citizen Democrats, as the people are decidedly against you, will you persevere against the people? You say (when you expect to raise disturbance by saying it) the voice of the people is the voice of God! Respect that voice, so loudly and solemnly expressed- forbear to raise your wicked hands against this government which they appointed, and which you perceive they resolve still to maintain. You fancy you could delude a majority of one branch of Congress to stop the motions of that government, and to obstruct the lawful doings of the other two branches—will not the people hold you responsible for the anarchy and convulsion that will ensue? will they not in vengeance require their government at your parricide hands!