The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

ADMONITORY.

AMONGST the various sins of the present day, perhaps no one is greater than that spirit of complaint so common among all ranks. Enjoying as we surely do, the blessings of peace, plenty, civil and religious liberty, it is the height of ingratitude to heaven, to be thus perpetually complaining. Let us look at the old world-see famine, war, commotion and destruction pervading a greater part of it, then view our country, and let reason and justice make the distinction. But to this complaint is added the comparative blessings of other parts of the union. In the southern States, say some, commerce is more flourishing, and the mechanic is more liberally encouraged- and their police is under better regulation. Others anticipate a better situation on the banks of the Ohio, where nature, they think, will unasked, pour forth into the lap of man, her choicest gifts, in a superior abundance: but let all those reflect, that the same complaints exist there that do here ; and that life, let it be passed where it will,must be subjected to cares, anxieties and troubles. The maxim, that one's country is always the best, is founded in nature and reason ; and it is a matter of indifference, whether it is Iceland or Otaheite. the South of America, or the south of France, on the banks of the Ohio, or on the banks of the river Senegal