The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Every friend of man, and the rational rights of man, cannot but rejoice at the disappointment of the combined royalists in their late campaign against France.--Despotism never in any age, avowed its principle more directly and openly than in the daring attempt of these powers to deprive a nation, by violence of the natural and inherent right of making laws to suit itself, and to establish such a mode of government over themselves, as they should see fit. In this attempt is completely developed the accursed, overbearing nature of despotic, or absolute power, which has hitherto existed by ignorance, imposture, bloodshed and devastation. Like the devil, it has been a murder from the beginning; and whoever reads the history of Europe, only, will find from thence that, in all ages the people have been led to the field of slaughter, either to gratify the imaginary wrongs of individuals, to glut the thirst of personal ambition, and in fact for almost every purpose except that of ensuring peace, liberty, property, and happiness to themselves.

From the melancholy example of past ages may the world learn, that power only belongs to the people, and that every individual to whom it is delegated, ought to be held immediately and continually responsible to them the fountain of all authority, for the exercise thereof: A neglect of which precaution has given birth to myriads of crowned and titled monsters, the disgrace of human nature in every century that passed, and the bane of nineteen twentieths of the habitable globe at the present hour.