The New Hampshire Gazette

From the Boston Chronicle.

The degradation of Anglo-federalism becomes more apparent every day. Their pretensions were originally founded in arrogance, and maintained on a baneful principle of political inequality. From this state of toryism, they were compelled to become hypocritical, and affect a sort of sneering regard for the people: but this affectation became ineffectual, and lost much of its required force, from the insolent folly of their scribblers, who, "ever and anon," would be calling the Farmer and Mechanic the rabble. And, by aristocratic essays, under the signature of Clio, &c. put our Citizens on their guard against this open encroachment upon their personal dignity, independence and felicity. On this occasion, they ludicrously attempted to swallow their own words, but the recantation stuck in their throats, and the faction became more sickly than ever. To recover their fading credit, with the New-England States in particular, they affected a new character, which was equally offensive to God and man. They put on a mask of severe aspect, to hide their smiles, and daringly asserted that they were the exclusive defenders of revelation, and the only conservators of public morals! Some truly pious and sensible citizens believed that a declaration so boldly affirmed, might be, in part true, and gave them credit accordingly: but finding on examination of their manners, that they were altogether sensual, and not in any degree apostolical, or exemplary, they viewed them with disgust, and shook off all confidence in their word. The faction then had recourse to another artifice, to strengthen their electioneering purposes: and, without obtaining the consent of the parties, buckled Mr. Adams upon the back of Gen. Washington, and carried their effigies through New-England, begging support for the Washington and Adams compact (as fraudulent monks of Naples carry images of the Virgin and Saint Januarius, whenever they want to enforce a public deception) but this manoeuvre lost its effect: for altho' John was duly proud of the partnership, he could not avoid growling, from a conviction that he was merely used as an instrument to cover the real designs of his arch-enemy Hamilton, and that when their turn was served, they would squeeze him dry again, like a worn political sponge, and cast him off among the shades of Braintree! Discomfited by the attempt, and finding their difficulties increase, they were secretly preparing a general assault upon the integrity of the Union, to divide the States, and sow the seeds of a civil war, when the hand of Providence interfered, and took away the head and fountain of their party. This was a fatal stroke, and they felt it in full force; they lamented and imprecated, sighed, threatened and prayed, in the same hour. At length the public were nauseated with their tyranny, their vanity and their dissimulation, and seized the earliest occasion to manifest their abhorrence, by giving such a majority to the Republican Electoral Ticket, as should have consigned them to silence and repentance; but that is not in their nature, as they are too insolent to be contrite, and too immoral to repent. They are not insensible to the approaches of a total destruction, but run about in dismay, among each other, like forlorn seamen on a wreck: yet, unhappily, their alarms are not tinctured with any appearances of regret, for the past, or hope for the future. They are sinking deplorably into a political death, without hauling their colours to signify dissolution, or taking down the streamers of their vanity from the mast head!