Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Communications.

"Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord."

SURELY we must acknowledge the prophet Isaiah to be possessed of great foresight. Who would have thought that a man, nearly twenty-seven hundred years back, should have depicted so plainly, the character of an American jacobin. "Yet will he not learn righteousness." Truth is the essential of righteousness; truth has been continually held up to their view: and yet, let me ask, what jacobin is there who has committed its lessons to memory? If men's minds would be searched, I fear the answer to this question would indeed be melancholy; for I believe the present calm to be only deceitful. Confounded by the majesty of truth—confounded at seeing it rise superior to their low-minded schemes, they remain almost inactive and silent.—But should the French again prove successful in destroying the happiness of another people; or by their cunning, in injuring us, we shall then hear their yells from Maine to Georgia, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. "In the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly." Little need be said to prove the jacobin horse unjust; for men whose principles are founded upon the "simple virtues" which the French delight in, cannot be otherwise. Detraction must be acknowledged to be an unjust principle; it is one of the leading traits in the jacobinic character. America must, and is allowed by all the world, to be an upright land; but could jacobins have been believed, how infamous would she now appear. "And will not behold the majesty of the Lord." When we see a nation or people abolishing every principle which has been held sacred by all the world; when we see them trampling on every moral and religious tie; and, more particularly, when we hear their infamous utterances against the Saviour of mankind; this aphorism of Isaiah's is reverberated with redoubled vigour; "In the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord."