The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, August 29. Every enterprise, public as well as private, in the United States (says a correspondent) seems suspended, till it is known what kind of government we are to receive from our national Convention. The states neglect their roads and canals till they see whether those necessary improvements will not become the objects of a national government. Trading and manufacturing companies suspend their voyages and manufactures till they see how far their commerce will be protected and promoted by a national system of commercial regulations.--The lawful usurer locks up or buries his specie, till he sees whether the new frame of government will deliver him from the curse or fear of paper-money and tender-laws. The wealthy farmer views a plantation with desire, for one of his sons, but declines to empty his chest of his hard dollars for it, till he is sure it will not in a few years be taken from him by the enormous weight of state governments and taxes. The public creditor, who, from the deranged state of the finances in every state, and their total inability to support their partial funding systems, has reason to fear that his certificates will perish in his hands, now places all his hopes of justice in an enlightened and stable national government. The embarrassed farmer and the oppressed tenant, who wish to become free and independent by emigrating to a frontier county, wait to see whether they shall be protected by a national force from the Indians, and by a national system of taxation, from the more terrible hosts of state and county tax gatherers. In short, the pulse of industry, ingenuity and enterprise in every art and occupation of man, now stands still in the United States : and every look, and wish, and hope, is only to--and every prayer to heaven, that has for its object the safety of our country, is only for, the present august national Convention !