Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.

Speaking of the last session of congress, the National Intelligencer declares it to be his opinion, that "enough has been done to constitute the first session of the fourteenth congress an Era in legislation." We entirely agree with him in this, and think that the same might be safely affirmed of every session that has taken place since democracy first shewed its misscreated front, in power, on the floor of congress. We have had nothing but eras in legislation from that time to this--Each Era more prodigious than its predecessor--Eras?!-Heaven defend the country, and all that it inherits, from such Eras, forever!

Still, however. he thinks that more might have been done; but he takes comfort from the reflection that it can yet be accomplished. " What is not finished to-day, will afford employment to-morrow," says he -To-morrow the river will be brought to the bridge In other words -the next session of congress will produce new devices for lavishing away the surplus of the taxes inflicted on the people during the last. :

A corps of invalids will be established--A good help. no doubt, to get rid of the people's cash, extorted from them under pretence of protecting manufactures--and at the same time to secure to the faction a vast number of votes at the various elections.

A military academy will be productive of the same blessed effects ; but in a more intense degree and a great national seminary will cap the edifice of corrupt influence.--After that, a sweeping System under the indefinite name of internal improvement, will arise, of which he who can calculate the limits, must be a conjuror, and he must be more credulous than a gudgeon who can expect them to be narrower than the ambition, and the still more enormous avarice, of the executive body.

When, by these and similar means, the faction in power get entrenched behind a royal revenue and a kingly patronage, one thing only will be wanting to the completion of an iron despotism a devoted servile standing army to silence remonstrance and provide against the effects of popular indignation. This last will be supplied by the plan alluded to in the Intelligencer for the organization and classification of the militia --a plan which is neither more nor less than Bonaparte's conscription law vamped up by the man whom a miserable handful of usurping democrats of congress, in caucus assembled, have endeavored, by a dishonest farce, to palm upon the country as president -A plan for which. if that man were chargeable with no other offence, he ought to be forever excluded from any office of high public trust in this republic, and from the hearts and confidence of the people.