Gazette Of The United States

Mr. Fenno,

In the following extract from Mr. Trumbull's McFingal may be traced the genuine features of those writers in the National Gazette, who are incessantly laboring to render the government of the union odious to the people. By giving it a place in your paper you will oblige

A Reader.

"YE dupes to ev'ry factious rogue
Or tavern-prating demagogue,
Whose tongue but rings with sound more full,
On the empty drumhead of his skull.
You do not know what noisy fools
Use you, mere simple tons or tools?
For Liberty in your own by-sense
Is but for crimes a patent licence;
To break of law th' Egyptian yoke,
And throw the world in common stock,
Reduce all grievances and ills
To Magna Charta of your wills,
Establish cheats and frauds and nonsense
Fram'd by the model of your conscience,
Cry justice down, as out of fashion,
And fix its scale of depreciation,
Defy all editors to trouble ye,
And pass new years of Jew'ry jubilee;
Drive judges out, like Aaron's calves,
By jurisdictions of white slaves,
And make th' bar and bench and steeple,
Submit t' your ov'reign Lord the People;
Give each knave his whole estate,
By gen'ral amnesty of debt;
By plunder rise to pow'r and glory,
And brand all property as tory;
Expose all wares to lawful seizures
Of mobbers and monopolizers;
Break heads and windows and the peace,
For sake own int'rest and increase;
Dispute and pray and fight and groan,
For public good, and mean your own."