Gazette Of The United States

COMMUNICATIONS.

The man who has a great deal of money wishes to get more. Accordingly we see men who have enough, risk all to get more, which they do not want, and would not, if they had it, know what to do with it. Often by their running imprudent risks they lose all.

The human mind will not stand still. A people rich in liberty are very apt if they cannot have more, to wish for something different. Having all, they cannot increase their stock, but they would change it. Many are fond of trying new things, and in this temper precious old ones are often flung away.

It is not true to affirm, that oppression only, will excite a desire for change. It is in the nature of man, and the freest nation may be made to sigh for new schemes of politics with all the ardor of suffering freemen.

Those who sow jealousies and discord in the union have the address to hold up the allurements of new theories, as specious in argument, as they would prove pernicious in the trial.

Liberty is certainly one of the fairest gifts to man; it is his state of perfection. But like his state in paradise it is surrounded with temptation. The serpent is everywhere, tempting the people to pluck the fair fruit. Those who tempt, would be the first to revile and torment them in their fallen state.

May the Liberty of America which has not yielded to suffering and danger, escape the arts of those assassins who flatter to destroy who would pull down government under the pretext of gaining more liberty to a nation which already has all.