Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

HARTFORD, May 15.
Extract of a letter from a Member of Congress in a neighbouring State, to his friend in Hartford, dated 15th April last.
"The call for the meeting of Congress on the 15th of next month, is not more unexpected and inconvenient to me, than it is unpleasant and alarming. What will be the issue of the convulsed state of Europe, the subtle intrigues, the dark insidious policy of the French government, and the secret machinations of the evil, ambitious, and disorganizing faction among us, on our happy government and country, God only knows.
I feel sometimes full of resentment, but it is not against the incendiaries and factious who are lurking about among us; men who breathe an air too pure for their vile contaminating principles, and who live under a government too mild for habits so vicious and corrupt. An interruption and eventually an annihilation of our recent happiness and prosperity is an event greatly to be deprecated, should it even be effected by the hand of an enemy.—But when this evil is accelerated, and in part accomplished by citizens of our own country—our own family—will it be too much to exclaim, "Is there not some chosen curse—some hidden thunder, in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath to blast the man who owes his greatness to" and who dares attempt "his country's ruin." War is indeed a calamity at all times—and by all nations sedulously to be avoided—It is emphatically so with respect to us—every consideration invites us on the one hand to seek peace and pursue it, while on the other it proclaims against war. It will require all the wisdom, firmness and moderation of the new Congress, to steer our political bark with safety through the threatening storm. May the good spirit of our country animate all their councils, and direct all their deliberations to measures which will issue in the public good."