Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

From the Poughkeepsie Journal.

To the Democratic Societies of Kentucky, Philadelphia and New-York.

I TOO belong to a Society, the history of which is this. In the year 1775, when real dangers were at our doors, the free people of North-America formed a society, the acting committee of which, was called the Continental Congress; it did its duty; it was patriotically supported, and finished its destination gloriously.

In the year 1788, it was deemed expedient to new model the society; and it now consists, of a general, or national committee, and fifteen subordinate ones. Neither the one or the other, have as yet betrayed their trusts; but vigilantly and properly, pursue measures, which have secured to the people of this country, a degree of felicity beyond what often falls to the lot of humanity. The officers in the several departments are men, and as such, may sometimes be mistaken.—As yet, no alarming marks of corruption have been found: but should unwarrantable ambition, or peculation, be discovered, either in the primary committee, or in the smallest department in the remotest corner of the nation: there is a spirit in the four millions which would instantly detect and punish the transgressor. We want no clubs, or chimney corner combinations, to stand sentinels for us. Each American is in himself a fortress and watchman; and ill betides the foe that doubts it.

It is really amusing, to hear little obscure knots of people, utterly unknown by the law, talk of crimes and punishments; apeing the Jacobins of France, with whom, suspicion is proof; and trial, conviction and death. If your finances are not too puny, I would advise you to import a complete guillotine, with cords for pinioning, and a basket to receive the heads. But if this cannot be effected, apply to the mother Society of Paris, and they will undoubtedly with infinite satisfaction, furnish you with a model, and ample directions how to use that commodious state machine. They will tell you perhaps, that beheading Federalists is the present reigning fashion in France; and that it is too delightful a recreation, not to be universally enjoyed.