Gazette Of The United States

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

"In the day of prosperity rejoice—in the day of adversity consider"—is a divine injunction: when peace succeeded and crowned the glorious contest for liberty and independence, the people of the United States gave an unbounded scope to their imagination; and from anticipating an uninterrupted series of prosperity they plunged into scenes of luxury and extravagance—but the triumph of folly was short—debts public and private soon brought us to sober reflection; the result was the adoption of the new system of government—since the creation, a greater change for the better, was never known in the circumstances of any people; and so far from being an imputation on the government, or its administration, are the few clouds at the present moment flitting in the sky of our political horizon, that when the sun of reason shall have dissipated them, our public prosperity will through their intervention be more permanently established.

The present however is considered by the enemies of our federal union as a favorable opportunity to promote their views—and if the people can be brought to believe that their senses deceive them, and that those who build up and preserve are their enemies, and that those whose talents extend no further than to pull down and destroy are the only patriots of the country—our prospects will be evanescent indeed.

When it shall become criminal to support the government which the people established—when those who traduce and malign that government shall be considered as friends to the people—when those who disseminate principles subversive of public honor and private faith—and by anticipating the public judgment, preclude a fair investigation of truth, palm themselves on the people as patriots—when the foundations of virtue are attacked by representations which tend to destroy all respect for character professions and abilities, by blending in one undistinguished mass knaves, rogues and honest men—when such is the state of things in any community, the harvest of the sons of anarchy and rapine is near at hand.

If foreign nations had not an higher opinion of the Government of the United States than certain persons among ourselves, who assume to themselves (with what propriety, time will shew) the name of patriots, we might solicit loans to eternity without effect.

The demon of slander broke loose last summer—but being frowned upon by a discerning public, he retreated to his den; where, for the honour of our country, and human nature, it was to be hoped he would have reposed in silence and oblivion—but some restless, envious spirit, has disturbed his repose; and the fiend having broken his chain, has commenced his work of lies and detraction in an attack on certain personages, with (it is shrewdly suspected) the laudable design of subverting the attachment of the people to the Union and government of the states, by sowing divisions among those who administer our affairs, and thereby rendering them odious to the people. May the nefarious designs be blasted.

There are some men who pretend to love their country better than themselves; but they hate every thing done to promote its happiness that is not of their own projecting.

"It is easier to find faults than to mend them." This is an old, but just remark; we every day see it verified in the conduct of those who with the greatest ease can speedily demolish what it cost the labor of years to erect.