Gazette Of The United States

EXTRACT.

To divide honest and well meaning citizens has not been found so difficult a task in many countries as might have been wished—no extraordinary genius is requisite—a low cunning and some small share of experience among men are too often found to be sufficient, and the consequences, to a benevolent mind, appear truly distressing.—Rancor, malice, hatred, envy, ill will, a disposition to persecute and destroy, prove fatal to the peace, the comfort and satisfaction of social life—a system of fraud and seduction follows of course, and in this situation the disocial passions have full play.

Uninfluenced by the principles of virtue and true patriotism, the state is in a perpetual ferment—the noisy and most boisterous have the control of public measures—anarchy and confusion are consequent, and to them the most despotic government may succeed.

These being the consequences of party rage and violence, it certainly must be considered as the duty of every one who desires the prosperity of his country to seize every opportunity to cultivate and improve a spirit of harmony and unanimity—to eradicate those principles which inspire animosities, breed rancor and malice, create divisions, destroy the internal peace, weaken the strength and sully the glory of our government. Every good citizen should exert his utmost abilities to heal political divisions, and change the narrow prejudices of a party spirit into the pleasing, diffusive, happy spirit of true patriotism and universal benevolence.

WORCESTER SPECTATOR.