Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

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Some members of a certain body, have patriotically hinted, that the French directory, ought to make war upon the United States. They have not said indeed, that they will openly join France, should it come to a quarrel; but it is yet to be seen whether they do not mean to prostrate their country before the French directory, by withholding from it the means necessary for an honorable negotiation.

You have seen a cock upon a dung-hill in search of food; with what industry he scratches it, with what earnestness he examines every layer of filth as he turns it over; and how he struts and crows when he finds a grain of half rotten corn to devour-just so your democrats search the dung-hill of philosophy for disorganizing sentiments, and strut and crow on finding one, through their whole chain of newspapers-as if they had just received precious treasure from Mexico.

Plato, a writer in the cause of holy insurrection, would persuade the people, that their government has acted unjustly towards France and that justice requires they should take a part with France against their own government: and in this patriotic attempt he calls in the aid of an extract from Godwin's Political Justice,-" I have a paramount engagement to the cause of justice and the benefit of the human race. If the nation undertakes what is unjust, fidelity in that undertaking is a crime." This moral has been copied into the Aurora, and no doubt will make its way good to the Chronicle, the Argus, and the Baltimore Telegraph.