Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.

Oh America! How highly favored have thy sons thought themselves, when in pursuit of honest industry-each one sitting under his own vine and fig-tree, and none to make him afraid! But, alas! The change the ears of our brethren are deafened-their hands are ready to fall on the poor defenceless Citizens, who after years of toil and fatigue, expected they had found an Asylum for their years, and a prospect for the advancement of their offspring in their growing industry, established in a manufacture, the produce of our country—and which we had long been beholden to other nations for, but by the perseverance of her Sons have at length brought to that perfection, as to supply demand—well this bright prospect must be changed. Freedom! Where wilt thou prepare thyself an abode? Our houses are no longer our castles: The sight of an Excise Officer, ready to seize the small profits which would have paid the expected demand, or gone to procure the means of a continuance in the business from which we expect our bread.

Reflection points out many characters who with difficulty struggle along? Is it then those who have been rather more fortunate in the business, that the exaction is to be made from? Has not their property an equal share in bearing the burdens of government, without taxing their industry?

O my countrymen! Disunite not your brethren, who will cheerfully contribute their proportion in the direct and open line. Destroy not the infant manufactures of America: There is yet difficulties enough in the way to render them slow in their progress. Take not the means of support.

It has been said, it is for the purpose of freeing our brethren in Algiers from Slavery. We look on freedom, the greatest of blessings, and I would cheerfully spare the price of a suit of cloathing for this purpose, and hope there is not less patriotism, even in the women of America than formerly—in the year 1779, they went from door to door, when they were told their brave soldiers wanted shirts; and appropriated their collections to buy linen and make them; such voluntary gifts expand the human heart, and posterity records these noble exertions.

I have now only to add that our respected Senate would, by throwing out, this detested excise law, this bane to religion, morals, and freedom, incline amongst the number to return them her unfeigned thanks, one deeply interested.

A Female Tobacconist.