Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

COMMUNICATIONS.

There is a great deal of jargon in the style of our anti-federal faction. They say a free government is supported by opinion; they pretend to be friends to the Federal government, and yet are incessantly laboring to destroy the good opinion which the people entertain of it.

Our government is representative; to abuse the administration is to abuse the people who elect the representatives; and yet the faction who do abuse it, call themselves friends of the people!

The British government is strong; our antifederal faction hate a "strong government," and yet they assail the administration with weapons exactly similar to those employed by the minority in England against the British government.

The faction pretend to be friendly to the Constitution of the United States; though inimical to the administration; but their weapons of attack against it, being proper for a strong government only, it is evident that if they succeed our constitution falls of course.

This faction wish either to subvert the constitution, or get themselves into power. One event perhaps involves the other; both are to be equally dreaded. In the latter alternative, it is not presuming too much to say, that they would make the government strong enough, without consulting the people.

The Federal interest has always been the prop and support of the union of the States. There is not a spark of jealousy extant that has not been struck from the anvil of the anti-federal faction. This faction speaks a foreign language, it is in no measure assimilated to the spirit and genius of our country. It is nourished on our misfortunes abroad, and droops under our union and prosperity at home. The justice done to our claims in England is a blow at its existence, and should France follow the British example and make a righteous compensation, faction would hang itself in despair—a consummation in both cases devoutly to be wished—

The Aurora has suggested to the French government, the policy of interdicting the importation of fish from the Eastern states into the French islands. A correspondent remarked on the occasion, that the Aurora man must have believed that the French purchased the fish when they did not want, or could do without it. The eastern fishermen are however just as much obliged to the writer for his friendly hint, as if they did.

It is not expected that France should make any commercial sacrifice—we know she never did. When she wants our fish she will buy it. That is doing as much as others do, and France will never do more, or less.

When first the murdering Jacobins let loose their desolating thunder on the Corinthian pillars of society, and the civilization of the world, then fell, suddenly, into jargonic confusion, all the useful and long known distinctions of polished life. Every thing became sophisticated, and nothing any longer known by its right name.

Opposition to order and to law, became Republicanism.

Riot, debauchery, assault and battery, and murder, Liberty and Equality.

Licentiousness, atheism, and universal carnage, the Age of Reason.

Was it not enough that so large and so fair a portion of the earth lay prostrate in the dust, and bleeding at every pore, but while these portentous omens of dissolution stared us in the face, we must extend over these temperate and happy plains that same curse of contention and civil strife, which had reduced "vine-covered hills and gay regions," to a den of wild beasts,—a horde of human monsters prowling round the earth in search of new objects for devastation.

Past the murderous strife of a furious revolutionary contest, —delivered from a heart-rending war of more than seven years, during which the loud roaring thunder rattled in our ears, from the arms of kindred foes; enjoying liberty and happiness, in all that perfection which can be realized by man;—insulated from the mad passions and endless contests of the rest of mankind; what had we to do with their revolutions, their liberty and equality, their new-fangled reason, their atheism or their sansculottism? We have idly suffered the barriers to be frittered away, which kept all these evils aloof from our land, and with the fury of a horde of wolves they now come rushing on, to embody all the weak and giddy throng of idlers, ignoramuses and knaves, against order, virtue, and true liberty.

Let us then in nautical phrase, clap a topper on the growth of foreign heresies, lest while we add our "mite of more" to that destroying torrent, which has "too much already," we enrol ourselves on the same black list with those whose enormities must be wiped away in atonement tremendous and severe.

TIMON.