Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

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Great cities were never governed By feeble laws. The rabble of Paris, London and Constantinople need stronger cords than those of love, and some more terrible power than reason and conscience: yet the clamors against the government and the efforts to loosen its bands come from the large towns, and from those classes in the large towns which create the necessity for energy and even severity in the laws. Those who need the most restraint most abhor it. Let those who favor the attempts to make the mixed multitude of a state-house yard the judge of treaties, and the legislators over legislators, senates and president, consider the good sense of the scheme and the very hopeful prospect of the consequences.

Democrats, the way to bring it about that we have too much vigor in the laws is so to manage the matter by clubs, mobs and newspaper lies that our present mild laws cannot answer. When these are trampled on, such will be desired as the sons of riot will not even dare to sneer at.

The writer of the Numbers signed "Citizen," is either a hireling of the French, or a gudgeon. Sometimes his sentiments breathe a servility of spirit embody'd in a drowsiness of style that strongly marks the fatigue of drudgery per se—and sometimes he speaks of his reliance upon the disinterestedness of France with such strong marks of chuckling simplicity, that one can hardly believe it possible that his innocence has been lost, or was worth the purchase. Such a writer is apt to impose much more than a finished writer could. Drudgery may produce a stupidity that is allied to magic.