Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.

MR. FENNO,

If the power of the present ruling party in France is really that of law and liberty, it is doing so good to their cause to lie for it. Why should news be made to answer the purpose of half an hour? It looks suspicious—it is weak. The form, the principles, the men and the measures of what is called government in France, have changed often. Change as they may, we have a set of people who think a man is a monster, if he presumes to say—here is an entire new state of things, will the old vindication answer? The wretch, the aristocrat—he is under foreign influence, is the cry, which besides its extreme good sense, shows their opinion of what they so much applaud.

The Americans are esteemed a sober, thinking people—All their judgments on political transactions should evince that they are so—If the proceedings of the ruling party in France, will not stand the test of impartial examination, they do not deserve the favorable prejudices which exist, because they are not brought to it—If bystanders would see the mistakes of the game, they should look on impartially.

Our newspapers may play the partisan for the French. How much does their prattle help them? Some of them avow their zeal for them. A zeal for truth would be as useful and as decent. We might hope to learn wisdom by others harm. No: If the French have many of our good wishes, let us learn many good lessons; by seeing wherein they betray, disgrace and destroy the cause of liberty, which there is no doubt they once had entrusted to their prudence. I hope you will have the desire to keep your paper as impartial as the Leyden Gazette.

A. B.