Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
It is often difficult to prove the designs
of craft; it is however fair ground to
charge measures of the worst tendency to
the worst intentions. It is trying men by
their actions, which are surer proofs than
those solemn words that usually preface
the foulest schemes. Indeed such men usually
have all their patriotism in their mouths,
while their hearts are full of all manner of
wickedness. On these principles, the public
has seen in a proper light the war contrivances
of a hired French party in this country. The
incendiaries were supposed to sink under the
weight of public indignation, and the firebrands
and daggers were thought to have dropped
from their hands. Mr. Bache's paper is crowded
with proof that this is not true. Read the sensible
and modest resolutions of the Democratic Society,
and doubt if you can, that they are vile. They
are either the work of a foreigner, or of an
American who has the heart of a renegado. Such
sentiments spring from a bosom that is alien
and hostile to the peace and honor of this
country. To comment upon them is labor lost
to him that reads them. They speak as plain
French as can be written. It is the evil genius
of a certain diplomatic man of truth and decency
to do exactly what he should not, to carry his
points. He prints his instructions to undeceive
all his dupes, and to disarm all his champions.
By that act, he threw disgrace, and what is
always worse for a party, ridicule upon all the
solemn and circumstantial falsehoods which
impudence had piled up, like a rampart, for his
defence. He furnished facts, and coming from
an enemy, facts that silenced for a time even
the hired clamor of impudence. On the authority
of his own documents, the people now know that
the vigilance and firmness of their first magistrate
prevented the most pernicious schemes by nipping
them in the bud. The highest praise on the wisdom
of the government, results from the printed
evidence of its disturber. While the plot was
ripening in darkness, it turns out that more
prudent steps to baffle it could not have been
taken if the whole had then been as well known
as it is at this day.
The resolutions alluded to very imprudently
censure measures and events which are at this
moment the subject of exultation with every
true hearted American. Our peace is the prize
which the foresight and firmness of the chief
magistrate secured to our nation. To arraign
that conduct is only to refresh the sense of public
gratitude and approbation. We have little to
fear from incendiaries while their efforts are
thus directed more to insult than to inflame
the people.