Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

REMARKS.

Friends to liberty, wherever you are, seriously weigh the above sentiments--they were written by a man whom you will see, by the quotation below, was once an ardent advocate for the revolution, which has taken place in his country. How much more reason, Americans-my countrymen-had a Frenchman, who lived under the despotism of the Grand-Monarque, to wish a change in government than you; who in this land of liberty, enjoy every right compatible with the existence of social order? Do not, my fellow-citizens, by complaining of imaginary, bring upon yourselves real oppression. If you love and wish to preserve liberty, follow not blindly the devotees to France- they will lead you into the paths of despotism, through their admiration of every thing that is French; for it must be evident to every man of the least penetration, that the too long continued and murderous anarchy which desolates France, has opened the doors of despotism, which the people of that unhappy country will soon eagerly rush into, to shelter themselves from a more devastating tornado. Consider the excellence of your government-the invaluable privileges you possess--the benevolent and rational laws that have been made to secure you in the unmolested enjoyment of your particular mode of religious worship, your property and reputation. Will you sacrifice the certain enjoyment of all those blessings in the chimerical hope of establishing a better and more eligible order of things? No, the bulk of you are too enlightened not to see, and too honest not to despise any attempts at innovation under the specious and insidious pretexts of exclusive and superior patriotism and benevolence: a friend to mankind, I love regulated, rational liberty as the true source of human felicity: and view as my greatest enemy and the decided foe to the happiness of his fellow-creatures, him, who, continually at work to undermine the pillars of social order, wishes to introduce the destructive chaos of anarchy. Americans, ye are more fit for liberty than any nation on earth, ye have more of it-for Heaven's sake do not lose any part by listening to the fiends who advise you to your ruin; remember, if you are friends to freedom, that you avoid anarchy-it is the grave of liberty. Suspect the man who pretends a furious and violent attachment to the interests and happiness of the people-who is the bully of liberty; look round you and see the most glaring dereliction of principles in the conduct of the exclusive patriots of our own country. - Are those the friends of liberty, who justify on every occasion the usurpers that have, for several years past, tyrannized over the poor, ignorant, and deluded people of France, and in particular, those among us, who, to a man, have wished the directory and army paid by them, to triumph over the people and the legislative body, even when the peace and welfare of the United States was evidently put in jeopardy by the success of the former? - When the minister of the despotic king of Spain insulted and abused our virtuous rulers, have not the very men, who three years ago were for giving a death-blow to every Spaniard as the vile slave of a despot, been the most zealous supporters of the interests and unjust conduct of Spain towards the United States? Do not the Jacobins among us, with patricidal grin, exult in the embarrassments of our country from foreign insults and depredations and ascribe to mal-administration what is ascribable only to the weakness of government in not having a naval force sufficient to protect our immense commerce from the dangers to which it is exposed from every war in Europe? Every dispute among the ambitious powers of Europe will prove equally fatal to our interests and happiness as the present has been,-if we do not hasten to command justice and respect by an increase of our power. -Strengthen your power and you will always ensure peace, honor, happiness--and confiding the management of your affairs with generous unsuspicious confidence to men of your own choice, cheerfully abide by their decisions. Observe the fiend-like conduct of our apostles of anarchy; never does any measure come forward to secure our respectability abroad and our tranquility at home, but they oppose it with all their might, as forming a barrier to their black designs of orenting insurrection. See their infernal exultation-at any supposed disaster which befalls our frigates. They are afraid of strengthening the arm of government, lest their idol anarchy may be crushed and destroyed, and their horrid views thereby frustrated. You have liberty, my fellow-citizens, and may you continue to deserve and enjoy, it, by detesting Jacobinism and its abettors; they have dug a grave for Republicanism in France and so will in America if you do not show yourselves determined on every occasion to avoid and despise their wiles and villainy.--The author of the foregoing quotation was once a friend to innovation and Revolution, as you will find by what follows; how he has changed, you will see by the translation above--they are the sentiments of at least four fifths of the people of France. Extracted from work called "The Constitution of the Moon," written by Coulin Jacques, page 3.

"All my works, my known principles and conduct, which at any time cannot be charged with incivism, attest sufficiently that there are few men of letters, who, under the ancient regimen combatted as courageously as me, the abuses of despotism, who marked more energetically a tender and sincere love for the people, who was more smitten with the charms of true liberty. But where injustice begins, there liberty ends; when law, peace, humanity, even God himself became causes of condemnation, that person must be destitute of common sense who could expect public felicity from such an order of things -who could not see to what result they would eventually tend."
Every American, whether born or adopted-every friend to the honor and interests of his country, who is feelingly alive to insults and injuries from any foreign nation whatever--every firm supporter of the measures of our national administration, particularly in their disputes with foreign powers-in short, every honest man who loves true liberty, should feel a virtuous and patriotic pride in showing himself a decided foe to an abandoned, despicable and unprincipled faction, which, for several years past, have assumed all shapes, and put in practice every vile and wicked engine to impede the operation of all measures entered into by the most upright and enlightened men in America. To unite in supporting our government whenever it is involved in disputes with foreign powers- to justify, rather than criminally condemn every step it takes at such an interesting crisis, is a sacred principle, and it cannot be too often, nor too generally inculcated. We should not allow ourselves to deliberate a moment, when our government thinks itself insulted and its rights invaded by another nation-should feel a holy impulse to hasten without reflection around its standard, and give it our decided support; which, in a republican institution like ours, forms its only strength. Should the points in dispute be glaringly impolitic, or even unjust, it is better to suffer the momentary reproach or inconvenience attached to their temporary operation, than to incur the certain devastation which would flow from inviting foreign insult and injury, by the weakness occasioned from disunion among ourselves. Every man, who, on such occasions, is heard to justify foreign governments or their agents, in opposition to our own, ought to be branded with contempt and ignominy, as being destitute of every principle of virtue or patriotism. Men of this stamp are "fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils-their notions are dark as Erebus-let no such men be trusted." No! Americans, they ought not to be trusted-they are digging a pit for your destruction-we know the men-- let us watch them betimes, let the evil hour come upon us unawares. I regret exceedingly that my abilities are not equal to my will in the development of the nefarious views of some patricidal men among us, who have organized a system for the destruction of our federal government-who are openly and secretly at work-have their agents and their funds-- receive impulsion abroad as well at home- eagerly catch hold of every abuse offered to degrade and vilify our government by foreigners of every description-the vile organ of a foreign chaotic democracy, as well as the representative of the most despotic king in Europe-and finally, who would cringingly caress and flatter even the fiends of hell itself, did they declare themselves inimical to our virtuous rulers and admirable constitution !--Arouse, from your lethargy, my countrymen ! ye, who love order and rational regulated liberty--who are friends to the federal government-who feel a holy horror at the daily recital (from the pens of humans and enlightened Frenchmen, who begin only now to peep out of their dungeons) of the carnage and devastation committed by the demons of disorganization and anarchy in France; the furies of insurrection and antifederalism are gone forth among us--and their deadly poison is spread, with active zeal, by vile, despicable printers in different parts of the Union, amongst whom, those in New-York hold a distinguished rank in point of venom, although inferior in point of talents. Do not say to yourselves, as is so commonly the case, that "they are so despicable and few in number that we do not fear all their machinations;" call to your mind- the fate of unhappy and desolate France; see an handful of jacobins, having one view-one soul-one centre--usurp the government-tread upon the most sacred rights of the people-dealing death and destruction to all around. As it is surely much better to profit by the misfortunes of others than our own, let us encourage the publication of the pictures of the horrors which have marked the steps of jacobins during the revolutions of France--let our active and laborious countrymen use their endeavours to obtain every French account of the dreadful reign of the men of blood, and transmit to their countrymen the justly awful description of that hundred-headed hydra, anarchy, whose frightful image should be kept constantly before the eyes of the people of America. In like virtuous and enlightened Frenchmen : whom heaven has spared for the benefit of the human race-.- inspired by truth, who has, for a few years past, been chained down by the fell demons of democratic tyranny, ye are now giving to your fellow-creatures of every climate, a revolting but instructive lesson, of the horrid evils which are to be apprehended in letting a few men get the upper hand, who, abusing the sacred names of philanthropy and liberty, have made them subservient to their infernal views of declaring war, not only against every thing sacred among men, but even against the Almighty Ruler of the Universe himself.

Americans ! do you not observe the convulsive writhings of the high-priests of jacobinism among us (our gallic American printers) when any accounts are published, written in France on the crimes of their "patriots.," which, till lately, dared not appear ? Do they not pointedly say, they are lies." and affect to disbelieve them, altho' every speech from the directory and the legislative body to each other, proclaim the horrid situation of that distracted country ? Read the message of the directory to the council of five hundred, in answer to the resolution of the council, respecting the march of the troops within the constitutional limits; in which Carnot, as President, says ; "The cause of these proceedings on the part of the defenders of the country', is to be attributed to the general alarm and disquietude, which for some months past, have taken possession of all persons, has succeeded the profound tranquillity that reigned. and the general confidence which everywhere prevailed. It is to be attributed to the defalcation of the revenue, which leaves all parts of the administration in the most deplorable situation, and deprives, often of their pay and their subsistence those men, who, for years past, have sacrificed their health and shed their blood to serve the republic. It is to be attributed to the assassination of the purchasers of the national property, of the public functionaries, of the defenders of the country--in short, of all those who have dared to show themselves the friends of the republic."

In the foregoing address of Carnot will be seen a confirmation of the extracts from French authors, which have, different times appeared in the daily gazette, and which our anarchists have pretended to doubt the authenticity of; if they really believe them to be "nonsense and lies." by calling on the Editor of this paper, they will be directed to the person by whom they were translated, who will condescend to have them shown chapter and verse in the French language. But no, ye furies of sedition and uproar, I shall see none of you ; ye are afraid lest the clear unclouded and splendid light of truth which is daily appearing, should expose to open day, the horrid works of darkness committed by your idols, Danton, Robespierre, Marat, Carrier, and a long list of monsters, whom you have enthusiastically and impiously called representatives of the Deity! What! do you want to keep truth any longer in chains ? Do you wish the liberty of speech and of the press, for another five years to be under the tyrannical awe of democratic anarchical despotism ? No, your reign has been long enough-the time is at last arrived, when virtue shall take place of crime, religion of atheism, humanity of barbarity, morals of debauchery, industry and commerce of speculation and robbery, the, arts and sciences of the devastating, destroying angels of furious democratic ignorance and brutality. The enlightened heroes of insulted humanity in France, who have escaped the revolutionary tornado, are now manfully opposing the directory- Jacobinic attempts to sweep off the face of the earth, every remaining vestige of civilization and refinement, by bringing back the devastating reign of the blood hound of chaos. Heaven grant, in pity to mankind, that they may succeed in their god-like exertions : And, may the industrious and patriotic part of the United States, avail themselves of their salutary and seasonable labours to strip anarchy and insurrection of the amiable and attractive garb in which our "patriots" have industriously arrayed them, and are still anxious to display them in, notwithstanding the horrid, frightful deformity in which every French writer daily represents those fell demons to human felicity., What their views are in writhing to stifle and suppress the flood of truth which the fatal example of France affords, during the reign of her jacobins, or apostles of disorganization ; must be glaringly obvious to every man of the least observation, and ought to be an object of serious and timely alarm to every friend of order and good government.

PATRIOTICUS.