Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

MR. FENNO,

The following extract from a late publication entitled "a journey over land to India, by Campbell." is so applicable at the
present moment, as induced me to transcribe it for your paper: had Mr. Campbell
travelled in America, he would have found
those citizens of the world, called democrats,
not so thinly sown, and that such characters
hold (not confidential but) lucrative offices
in our government.

"I have, in the course of my life met
with many people, who, under the plausible pretext of liberality and greatness of
mind, have called themselves citizens of the
world, and declared that the country where
they lived, be that what country it might,
was theirs and demanded their allegiance
and protection: but I have always shrewdly suspected, that such men act from a consciousness of being outcasts of their own
country—and scorned or rejected by their
fellow citizens, would retaliate by affecting
to deny their natural attachment.

"There are men who neither love father,
mother, sister, brother or connection: such
however, are, thank God, very thinly sown
in this world; but except it be a few such
unnatural people, I am convinced that there
is no one whose heart does not confess the
patriotic passion, and burn with a flame
more or less ardent of love for his country.
My predilections that way are naturally
strong, and I am now happy to reflect that
I evinced them by the most unequivocal
proofs; had I not, I were indeed, in my
own opinion, fit for any punishment however ignominious; and to all such as lift their
arms against their country, I will say in the
words of the poet,

"Never pray more—abandon all remorse:
On horrors head, horrors accumulate;
Do deeds to make heaven weep—all earth amaz'd:
For nothing can'st thou to damnation add,
Greater than that."