Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The Gazette.

PHILADELPHIA,

TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 14.

The horrid and desolating war still waged by France against every country whose tranquillity and prosperity afford subject for her envy or food for her rapacity, seems at length more completely than ever to have been stripped of the false gloss with which intriguing villainy had covered it, and to be resolved into a struggle, clearly defined and unequivocal, between virtue and vice--order and confusion. It is no longer the simple warfare of Republicanism against Monarchy: that guise (if it ever appeared in such to any man of sense) is effectually stripped off, and it stands before us in all its horrid nakedness. the struggle of Passion against Restraint, of Idleness against Industry, and needy Villainy against successful Honesty, for the hard-earned pittance of a life of toil. The Master Murderers, by whose extensive juggling all the ponderous mass of under-destroyers is moved to deeds of death and desolation, erect, in the haughty hey-day of their pride. and in all the fulness of their nauseating arrogance, a Samian gate, under which they swear to make all spirits bend, but the mighty and adorable genius of Republicanism; and lo, the first victims of their triumph and their pride are Republics. They exalt Liberty, republican Liberty, haughty, high-souled, uncompromising and repulsive, as a fit image for more than temporal adoration; and the first power which they acknowledge to possess and display it, is spurned at, kicked and cuffed by the mandates and the minions of this incomprehensible quintum virate. Like Judas, they have thus betrayed with a kiss. All that they have affected to venerate has bent or is to bend beneath the yoke, and to pass through the accursed and irretrievable gate. Thus the sword wipes away the delusions of the tongue and pen; and we poor mortals who erst dreamt no less than that all France pretended was true, are waked at last by the clangor of her murdering sword, her shrieks of misery and yells of torture.