Gazette Of The United States

SAYS A CORRESPONDENT,

The people of the United States are in possession of a government of their own choice—administered by men of their own choice; at the head of whom is a name above all praise: These men have been repeatedly the people's choice—and the measures they have adopted have raised their country from contempt to glory; these measures have proved that the authors were worthy of the confidence of the people who chose them—for these measures have excited the opposition of a junto, who will never be easy while this country is happy.

But what are we told, and what do the Gazettes say, echo and re-echo through the union ? " That poverty in the country, luxury in the capitals, corruption and usurpation in the national councils. National stock-jobbing, monarchy-jobbing, bank-jobbing and aristocracy-jobbing," are the blessed effects of placing the administration of our affairs in the hands of a Congress chosen by the people, and in the hands of such men as George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox, &c. &c. For public and private virtue, what are these men, compared to those who are now maligning the government ?

Many persons indulge themselves in a strange way of talking about perpetual laws. The word PERPETUAL is always used instead of standing laws, as if it was useful to frighten us with the sound. Laws regulating property, should be as stable as possible. The manner of holding, transferring and inheriting it, cannot be changed, without some injury, and still more alarm.—

As a republican government is founded on compact, and on the inviolable nature of right, its administration, if it be wise and honest, will give perfect security to property. Indeed, a man cannot be said to enjoy property, if he entertains the fear of its being invaded in his hands.