Gazette Of The United States, & Daily Advertiser

DEMOCRATIC DEVICES.

Among the ingenious tricks, practiced by the Jacobins, the following deserves particular mention. It will serve to show the meanness as well as vice of the French party in this country. Among the Aurora gang some wretch is found, who can spell correctly, and write a good hand. He is employed to make up packets of ribaldry, blasphemy, or sedition. The name of some respectable character at a distance is then inscribed on the cover, and the person to whom the letter is addressed is requested to disseminate the articles, which it contains. Through hurry and negligence, it sometimes happens that this is actually the case; and Auroras, compounded of falsehood and folly, and penny pamphlets, and libellous ballads have been current through a whole County. At any rate, the person to whom this trash is thus communicated, often has to pay the most vexatious of all taxes,--the postage for nonsense and treason. Letters of this complexion have been left in the box in Congress Hall; and respectable, and Federal Members have been desired to forward them to their constituents. Packets have likewise been made up, and addressed to some respectable Clergymen, particularly to those of the gravest character, and of the established Church. Sometimes these letters are thrown into houses by a Jacobin eaves dropper, and sometimes they come through the Post Office. On opening them, they have been found to contain Savage's obscene and injurious Poem, called "The Progress of a Divine," and a scoundrel ballad, belching out curses against aristocracy and Edmund Burke, against religion and morality. A vagrant scribbler, a sort of Pere Duchesne of his party, and who is notoriously as mad as a March hare, is supposed to be the miserable tool of "the Arch Jugglers behind the curtain." The depravity and profligate objects of this last scheme are enough to fill any sober mind with horror. Such is Jacobin reform, Jacobin decency, and salutary reformation. Contempt of civil and ecclesiastical authority, obscenity, sedition, and blasphemy are avowed, and propagated by the skulking agents of the party. The worthy, and federal ecclesiastics, who have been thus insulted, look sharp to actually detect the lunatic runner, who throws his Jacobin filth into their doors, and windows. A roll in the kennel, or a Negro with a Horsewhip, will requite these virtuous labours.