Gazette Of The United States

From the MINERVA.

At a general Meeting of Disorganizers, in the United States, at Club-Hall,
Citizen SECTION in the Chair

This meeting taking into consideration the woeful state of affairs in France, where disorganizers have become odious and detestable; where the friends of law and order raise their heads, and Jacobinism frequently falls under the axe of the law; and anxious for the fate of the glorious cause of Club Government, have come to the following resolutions.

Resolved, that as the fate of popular meeting and nightly club government is very doubtful in France, it is the sense of this meeting, that in case disorder and tumult should be ultimately crushed in France, they ought to find a refuge in the United States, and be received with a fraternal embrace, by all good disorganizers.

Resolved, That the rallying watch words shall be, Liberty, Equality, and Republicanism; and that none of our friends who are incapable of reading and understanding, may be ignorant of the true spirit of these words, it is hereby declared, that the word LIBERTY signifies, the right of throwing stones and hissing at those who try to argue with us; EQUALITY means the right of people to do themselves; what the laws say shall be done by their Representatives; and REPUBLICANISM is the privilege of being of our party.

Resolved, That in our opinion, the Constitution of the United States is very wrong in vesting the power of making treaties in the President and Senate; and therefore we do not agree to it; but we determined hereafter that all Treaties shall be ratified in town meetings, in any irregular way that any one disorganizer shall see fit to propose.

Resolved, the more effectually to carry our purposes into execution adopted and pursued, until better can be devised.

1st. When any Treaty is ratified by the Senate, we will contrive to get hold of it, and if we do not like it, we will take all possible pains to prejudice the public mind against it. We will publish part of it first, selecting the most odious parts, as best adapted to our purpose. We will let this go into the world, and spread it over the United States, to preoccupy the ground, and then publish a true copy.

2d. To make sure of our work we will send expresses and letters to every quarter, to excite a ferment-we will condemn the Treaty in the whole, have town meetings called before the Treaty is published, and the whole Treaty damned before it is read. If any body is old-fashioned enough to doubt the propriety of such haste, in such a serious affair, and demand time to read the Treaty and think of it, we will always have some noisy fellows ready to urge the danger of delay, and that the seal may be set to the Treaty, when it will be too late for the people to object. In this way we will hurry it on, and if we enlist the passions of people, what matter is it for their reason?

3d. To secure a majority of the people at town meetings, we will spread a number of misrepresentations to alarm them; always taking care to adapt our lies to the class of men who are to be deceived. Thus to frighten the ship carpenters, we will send a runner to tell them. if the treaty should become law, there can never be built in America any vessels larger than 70 tons burthen. If we want to muster journeymen carpenters, masons and apprentice boys, we will tell them the Treaty will lower wages to three shillings a day. And these lies are to be spread but a little time before the meeting, otherwise these deluded, but honest people, will suspect the trick, and wont come to bawl and vote.

4th. The better to make the plan work, we will set up the cry of Whiggism for ourselves and Toryism for our opposers. And if here and there a Nova Scotia Refugee, should intermix with the crowd, and men who have not been in America 6 months, should join, we will call them all '76 men, and swear to it.

5th. To enable the meetings to be fully attended, and that laboring men may not lose their wages by being called off in hurrying seasons to ratify or disapprove of Treaties, the hour of meeting shall be 12 o'clock. And if any body offers to discuss the Treaty, we will stone him or hiss him down. We can do this much better than we can argue and reason, and besides it will not take half the time to decide questions by stones, that it will by arguments.

Resolved, That whenever any of our society think a Treaty a bad one, it shall be burnt by the hands of the common hangman; and in case a hangman cannot be procured, that office may be performed by any Gentleman of our party.

Resolved, That the Canada article of Lord Grenville's Treaty, is a bad one; because it permit British subjects to carry on trade to the United States, which they could do before-and admits our Citizens to a free trade to Canada, which they had not before.

Resolved, That the detention of the Western Posts is a breach of Treaty; and therefore the British nation are a faithless nation. But to make cid horses and depreciated paper a tender for British debts, is no violation of contract, and therefore we are not so far a faithless people.

Resolved, That it is wicked and unequal to ascertain our losses of property in the same way that British losses are ascertained. It is said more unjust to be compelled to pay British debts that are from fifteen to thirty years old, as soon as we Britain is obliged to pay for illegal seizures made last year. Our losses ought to be paid instantly, just as to British debts, we ought to take our own time to pay them.

Resolved, That we have an Executive Committee, consisting of men without property; a few of whom have been seventy six men, whether distinguished for fighting, running away, or surrendering- is not material-

Resolved, as the sense of all true disorganizers, That men who have neither business nor property, make the best patriots; because, having nothing

Resolved, that our good brethren, the Citizens of the Suburb St. Antoine in Paris, when they assembled, surrounded the Convention; and shot a member by the side of the President, went rather too far, even for disorganizers; and that they stand a chance to injure our cause and blow up all their enemies as well as ours.

By order of the Meeting,
FACTION, Chairman.