Gazette Of The United States

The party has Shifted its ground very often, and yet has been, in every change, equally overbearing and dogmatical. First it was impossible we should get any treaty. Britain was not disposed to treat. Our envoy would not be civilly used. Next, Britain was beaten and would refuse nothing. Then it was said, exultingly, by the friends of our independence, France would go to war with us. No treaty; no treaty. with her enemies. The treaty arrives, the virtuous ten think the terms might have been better, more intercourse, islands and all, more amity and mutual advantage; and to bring this about, negotiate again, say they, A printer publishes the treaty with a faithfulness and accuracy that reflected exactly the due praise on the disclosure of it. - The virtuous ten had not, it seems, found out a word of the right objections. Constitution--Constitution--the treaty being against the Constitution is a dead letter : Thus roared the wisdom of a hundred mobs. The House convenes, and behold the objection just whizzing in our ears like the din of a great water fall, turns out an empty sound. The President and Senate are the treaty making department-But then, they are not the treaty making department-as thus-and thus- (here please to insert, from the press of Mr. Bache, 400 pages of metaphysical jargon.) After shedding for 3 weeks rays of darkness on the subject, the President's message is delivered. The words of the Constitution, the words of certain gentlemen, (mind I do not say their honor) opinions long established, usage public and uncontroverted, the analogy with common good and common sense, throw the new creed into some discredit. What is to be done? Deny it—change it, hide it in some new form of words do any thing, rather than let it lie long on the anvil of discussion. Is this Proteus never to be caught? Is the resource of party-invention unexhausted, or does some new Archimedes forge new weapons for them as fast as they break in the hands of the champions? Or when naked and disarmed is their modest appearance a coat of mail—