Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA,
JANUARY 28.

From Correspondents.
An Extract.

IT has been remarked, and probably with a degree of truth, that some of the people who have but lately made their escape from the bondage of the Old Countries and Governments of Europe, to this land of liberty, are more disposed to licentiousness, while they show a greater desire to dictate to the Americans about the affairs of government, than perhaps any other set of men in the United States. Admitting this is the case, a correspondent wishes to know, from whence arises such inconsistency? and if, at the same time, that it is an evidence of their vanity, it does not also prove that their minds, their manners, and habits, so yet partake of the government under which they were formed; and that liberty under a Republic, is a happiness which such men are not immediately capable of enjoying, even supposing them to be worthy of it—whether they are not apt to play the tyrant in their manner and conversation, while their clamorous respect. ing liberty are purposely carried to an extreme, lest we should suspect their sincerity.

Our constant faction sometimes make a racket about European connections.— We have nothing to do, say they, with their foolish wars, their waste of blood and money—Let America court peace; foreign examples are not adapted to the rules of our policy, to the purity of our morals.

This was the cant when it could be turned against any of the measures of the general government—Witness the scandalous style of last winter's publications.

The last six months produced events, which obliged the very same faction to alter their note.

Behold France—her cause is our cause, said they. We must connect ourselves closely with France. Her minister, the same good man who has done so much not only to excite a war, but to wage it, says, Form a family compact with France—the faction cries Amen. Our purity of morals will be doubly refined by the imitation of French examples; we shall become lambs for innocence.

Good men and true I mark it well that the faction who pretend to be the friends of the people, and who expect to prove that they are such, by showing that they are enemies of their government— these men change their note at least once a year.

Peace, peace, say they, when our frontiers and sea-coasts and vessels are to be defended against the Indians and Algerines. Spirit, decision, European connections, is the cry, when other projects are to be prosecuted.

It is a fact well known, as a correspondent, that a very serious alarm took place last Summer. in London, among the American merchants, on account of a rumor that hostile measures were impending on the part of Great-Britain, against this country—That alarm afterwards subsided; and many letters from that country published several weeks since, announced that it was in consequence of the Proclamation of Neutrality.