Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

Extract of a letter from a merchant much respected for good sense and patriotism, in an Eastern State, to his Friend in this City.

"I find it is the general opinion that no vote of Congress against self-created societies could have been more damning to men that have one particle of feeling, than the opprobrium thrown upon them in the house. The contempt with which members of this society are viewed by every one who has the least pretension to character or patriotism cannot be increased; and no human consideration will often this sentiment, unless a degree of pity should be excited for the fate of those few who have so far out-run the great body of their fellow-citizens as to have reached the goal of moral and political infamy before the many who have only come in sight of it."