National Gazette

Very wholesome advice is administered in a Boston paper of last week, relative to the popular choice of Legislators. Sufficient caution is there given to the people, 1st, to choose no man who is remarkable for a super-abundance of low cunning; such a man in a legislative body will always have his private interests more at heart than those of the public.

2dly. Twistical characters, who are easily swayed, and will assent to any question that promises to favor self or party interest.

3dly. Speculating characters; men who creep into legislative bodies with a design to turn their legislative knowledge of state Secrets to private purposes—

4thly. Greek and Latin not to be essential qualifications.—

5thly. Legislators ought not to be concerned in pilot-boats, bound for the modern Colchis. Such, if put to the test, would in all likelihood, sell their country for a scrip.

As Plato wrote over the door of his academy, Let no one enter here who does not understand Geometry, in the same manner let us write over the doors of our federal and state legislatures, Let no one enter here to whom some of the above characters is applicable.—" Let us not suffer a single ranger, speculator, or swindler in our public bodies—let us purge the tabernacle of all contamination by stock-job-bers, who consider the United States as a lottery office and the rights and privileges of the people as a discount from their prizes. Let us sweep the legislative floors of such vermin, who devour liberty in the bud, and suck the vitals of the honest industrious farmers, merchants, and tradesmen. Let us unite, to a man, and elect only such as will promote agriculture, the arts, true commerce, and the general good of the country.