Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The Aurora, in characterizing the proscribed deputies, has demonstrated that they were NOT ROYALISTS; but, it is of little importance whether they were or not, since our attention must in future be occupied by the designs of their oppressors. That infamous retailer of blasphemy, Surgo ut proim, has dub'd them Royalists by a dash of his hasty pen, but the real cause of their obnoxiousness to him, instead of being a predilection for royalty, is their able support of the interests of this country.— Hence his joy at their destruction—which he has justified on the most despotic principles!

But this tried and proven servant of infidelity needed not to have given us this new evidence of atrocious depravity, in order to a just appreciation of his character. Firm to the interests of Jacobinism, he triumphs in the idea of his old master's gain bearing the sceptre of terror: he already revels in delightful massacres, and multiplied proscriptions even in distant imagination make his heart leap for joy. But disorder, turbulence, misrule and murder are going out of date. even in France, however different an aspect may strike the view of the cursory observer. Republicanism, called liberty,—and licentious insolence called equality, are fast decaying. "The fashion of this world passeth away.

The mad-cap philosophers of France have annihilated Republicanism, and by their infinite excesses and atrocious enormities, effected what the united valour of European chivalry attempted in vain. Slavery is alike odious, in all its forms: or if one shape of it can be more intolerable than another, it is to groan under the bitter gripe of oppression at the moment we are compelled to trumpet forth the blessings of freedom. 'This is precisely the case in France: the unprincipled Despots in power, triumphantly exult on the superior blessings of liberty and Republicanism,—while they are dragooning their slaves into a surrender of one half their property,—or seizing them by hundreds, to transport them to inevitable misery and death.