Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

The PATRIOTS of POLAND.

The time is arrived when assistance to the Polish Patriots would produce the most important advantages. Happily the Prussian king is disgracefully driven from his position. An "armed nation" has convinced him how dangerous it is for a sovereign to trample upon the necks of his subjects—and the insulted majesty of a people will soon, we trust, inflict a severe and exemplary punishment on the insulting ministers of a monarch. In a respectable morning print of this day it has been proposed that those who rejoice in the glorious intelligence of the raising of the siege of Warsaw should express their joy by a public dinner. We object to this proposition. Will eating and drinking establish the liberty of Poland? No—Let us subscribe money for the purchase of such things as the patriots want—Let us send them stores and ammunition—Let us negotiate a loan for them.

Surely the guarantee of a whole nation will at least be as good security as the emperor offers for his loan. Let the government withhold the subsidy to the king of Prussia, which though given for other purposes enables him to buy such necessaries as he stands in need of for the prosecution of his detestable designs, and thereby produces the same effect as if it had been expressly given by the government of Great Britain for the subjugation of Poland.

Let us do these things, and we shall deserve that noble of all appellations—the FRIENDS of the HUMAN RACE, an appellation which we apprehend, posterity will scarcely bestow on us or the heroes we have in the present contest against France.