Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Fayette county, August 16th, 1797.

Mr. Scull,

I have lately arrived from a western state,
and am much pleased to find that the citizens of
this and the neighbouring counties are not all led
away by a foreign influence; that they are not
made jacobins or democrats, and exerting every
nerve to overthrow our present government, and
establish a foreign one in its stead: our pretended
patriots (as their friend, citizen Fauchet, called
them) will deny that they had this in view, but what
more honorable object could they be in pursuit of,
in raising such a cry against the British treaty and
opposing it so violently in Congress. I make no
doubt but many well-meaning men have been so
wrought upon by the designing and knavish as to
think the treaty a bad one, for all men are not
politicians; but that one well acquainted with
politics, and, uninfluenced by party and self-interest,
I say, for such a person to think the treaty injurious
to our people, was and is impossible.

An instrument so well calculated to secure the
peace and promote the interest of the states; an
instrument from which we are deriving such
great advantages, and from which we should
receive many more benefits was it not for the
French party among us, who strive to inflame
the directory and set them against the American
government--Yes, Sir, this party have done
their utmost to defeat a treaty that has given us
peace with the Indians, secured indemnification
to our injured merchants, established trade on a
footing advantageous to the United States, and
prevented a destructive war with Great-Britain.

Is there any one in the United States that
still thinks favourably of those who have been
foremost in opposing the British treaty, let him
compare that treaty with the treaty made with
the Algerines and see what a vast sum we pay
that little nation from whom we receive nothing
but what is justly due us, and let him say why
there was no clamour raised against that treaty.