Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.

Mr. Fenno,

OUR disorganizing party say, leave the work of government to our management. We will set matters into a wonderfully fine train--We will continue embargo after embargo, for the benefit of trade. The English will not let us traffic in the West Indies, and we will cut off at a stroke of our guillotine all trade with England--We will break all the bones that we find whole in the skins of our poor bruised merchants. We will prevent negociation in order to prevent war--We will sequester debts, prohibit all commerce and do our worst to scare the Englishmen out of their wits, lest we should be displeased with them. In the mean time we will go on and restrict trade very much at leisure, we shall have nothing else to do.

Thus for the love we bear our dear merchants, we will have no commerce. Our zeal for peace is shewn just as sensibly. We lay tumbling blocks in the way of negociation. We scorn to treat when we have cause of war with England. When we have actual war with Algiers we scorn to do any thing but treat. In the first case, treating is playing the fool, in the second, arming is not better. To get ready for war, we talk fiercely. We stab the revenue to the vitals, forbid the importations which yield it, and then strong in poverty we defy all foes. Without the sinews of war, we will provoke it. Let us alone, and the national government shall be dieted on ratbane. No medicine of your federal quacks gives such a tone to the fibres.

CONSISTENCY.