Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

COMMUNICATIONS.

It seems as if those acknowledged truths, or axioms, which guide men in other sciences, mislead our democrats in their politics. The proneness of liberty to licentiousness no one denies-and the termination of licentiousness in despotism, is no less agreeable to fact and sound theory. Yet the democrats say, and say to a man, the French are in a revolutionary state, their excesses and worse were to be expected-that is impossible, but they will establish liberty. Now pray what right has a friend of anarchy to affirm that liberty will come next. After licentiousness comes what? Despotism. Liberty is the daughter of honest parents, not of vice and violence.

This inference is plain, those who look for the loss of liberty as the probable consequence of confusion are wiser, safer, and more watchful keepers of it, than those who can believe that licentiousness only brings more liberty: even such of our democrats as are honest, as some of those who pin their faith on the sleeves of wicked leaders, may be as dangerous in their principles, and unfit to be intrusted with federal authority. They censure fear and hate our constitution, or, as they will acknowledge, several very important parts of it, and almost all it's administrations: its entire overthrow so far from dangerous, much less fatal, is only a new shuffling of the pack of cards, a new chance for the people to choose a form of government, more pure, free and amiable.

This idea is characteristic of the party, and it is not unfair, nor exaggerated in the least, for those now charged with it, maintain with the zeal of sectaries that fact and experiment, no one can say how many times repeated in France, have proved-nay, more have made it an article of the political gospel, that revolution and liberty are synonymous terms. The question is seriously repeated, are such men proper to be chosen to office, at any time, when their electors do not wish for a revolution.