Gazette Of The United States

COMMUNICATIONS.

Incendiary writers, a hireling press, and factious men who foment discontents to gain elections have given themselves to breathing spite in their task of making mischief since our free constitution was proposed to the public.—We hear of British factions—but more profligate lies or more malignant suspicions were never scattered in any country on earth in order to bring the government and its officers into contempt and abhorrence. The only chance in the favor of government is the sound sense of the people—and truly none was ever more tried or more insulted. Much will it redound to the honor of our citizens if they disregard in future, as they have heretofore done the seditious arts of their enemies. But if our affairs should get into confusion, it will show that we have thought better of ourselves and the world has been kind enough to think better of us as a nation than we deserve. They will say the constitution was the work of the wisest and best men—but it has been marred by the most worthless.

Happy is it for a people when intrigue gets entangled in a net of its own weaving—honesty is always a match for cunning and false patriotism, in a fair and candid investigation of its motives and conduct—Envy may raise a mist. but time and reflection dissipates the vapors, and a wise and enlightened people award the tribute of applause to solid merit.

We have heard of the inextricable difficulties of the people; we have heard of the intolerable burdens they are at this moment groaning under—and we now hear from the same quarter, "that by a combination of favorable circumstances, or the collected good sense of its inhabitants, the country has extricated itself from a few embarrassments" -Alas, what a pity that certain restless spirits cannot assume to themselves any of the honor—and that neither in prose or verse, one solitary publication can be found to celebrate their praise.

Friends of merit, ere you indulge your feelings, consult the opinion-mongers. for their indignation is excited at every mode of expressing your sentiments, which is not dictated by themselves.

The mischief makers have pretended that there was a corrupt majority in Congress watching for opportunities to swell up the debt—because debts and taxes create a corrupt influence. It is time to drop this article from the impeachment. because it would involve the dear friends of liberty, the pure enemies of antirepublican public faith and aristocratical public credit and order. On the business of the army claim, the opposers of Treasury influence would (at least they said they would) allow millions more debt in favor of the late army and original certificate holders. Abused and deceived citizens—who on this occasion were the men to hunt up claims to swell the public debt—which will you give credit to—words—big swelling words of vanity and deceit—or plain facts that speak louder?