Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

From a Correspondent.

To bring justice home to every man's door is a favorite object with good men. It has been told us, that the manufacture of nails is carried on in the chimney corner of almost every farmer in the eastern states; what a noble thing, in like manner to scatter the manufacture of laws. In the Island of Jersey, it is well known, that the inhabitants of a village collect together, and men women and children spend the evening knitting stockings. Our clubs are a great improvement upon the law making art. An Embargo is settled over a bowl of punch without loss of time or temper. Congress wrangles months away about a tax of eight cents. A club or a meeting out of doors decides the affair in a trice. Thus it appears that a real improvement is made in the workmanship of laws. And what is worth money is that it saves money. For what is cheaper than the resolutions of a club? What can be more expeditiously passed thro' the mill? Another advantage is, that they can execute their own resolutions. The wise men can hasten from the State-House yard or from the tavern where they resolve, to the wharf where they execute. Congress may repeal an Embargo. The people, that is to say, the collection at an evening meeting can both re-enact and enforce it. Who so will understand treaties? They vote that Mr. Jay ought not to go. Who dares to gainsay it?—Is not this the substance of power as well as the right and the name in the hands of the people of America; and who are the people of America, if two or three outlandish office seekers and a meeting in the State-House yard, or a Democratic club are not?