Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

For the Gazette of the United States.

MR. FENNO,

babro

On a motion made and seconded in a

Democratic Society in behalf of Mr. B.

requesting permission to fill his balloon at
From the chimney-top of the Hall during a warm debate; one member in opposition to this motion, asked, Where is your equality, and where are your levelling principles, Citizens, that you would thus aid a flighty, over-bearing attempt to soar above the People? I assert that an attempt to promote the elevation of an individual above the multitude, must be aristocratical, or I do not understand the meaning of the word. Moreover, Citizens, I am by no means convinced that the measure would be safe. We have never heard of the force or effect of Democratic Gas, when tied up in a bag. The balloon may burst and ruin poor Citizen B. Nay, worse than all this—it may mount with velocity before the upending or depending cords can be detached from the Hall, and taking us all up to the clouds along with Citizen B. we may be carried—the Lord knows where.

No, Citizens, although we have frequently met to propose high-flying, and dangerous projects for others, I never have understood that we were to trust our own carcasses in the voyage. This struck the members so forcibly, that the motion passed in the negative, by a unanimous vote. Mr. B. will now be obliged to look elsewhere for his gas—or the expectations of the public will again be disappointed, and none more so, than those of your humble servant—

NOOLLAB.