Gazette Of The United States, & Daily Advertiser

"To a quotation from a writer who says that the mode in which America treats her veteran soldiers, and those who had sacrificed their all in the revolution, was strongly contrasted by the liberality of Great-Britain to the American Loyalists ;" the Aurora annexes this paragraph—"It might be added with great truth, that a spirit has been manifested for some years back, even in America, to cover the authors of our independence with odium, and to discourage the compensation, pensions, and the families of those who rendered conspicuous services in promoting American emancipation and liberty."

Of the truth of this paragraph the files of the Aurora exhibit the most incontestable evidence. If there was one man among us, who, more than any other, deserves to be considered as the "Author of our Independence," the world will unite in saying that man was GENERAL WASHINGTON. If virtue—talents, and public service could exempt their possessor from detraction. our venerable patriot would have descended into the grave as untouched by calumny as he was. free from vice. But this was not even his lot. The envenomed and malignant shafts of slander were incessantly levelled at his sacred name, and the people of America have for years witnessed the unremitting efforts of the Aurora to cover with odium even HIM whose name is the pride and boast of our country.

Few among the living rendered more active and effectual service. in the establishment of our independence than General HAMILTON, and on none has more scum been cast.

No man came forward with more zeal and patriotism than General PINCKNEY, and no man has been more vilely and more shamefully traduced.

Colonel PICKERING was a valuable and a faithful officer through our revolutionary war, and now, by a foreigner, a subject of that crown from which our independence was wrested, Colonel Pickering has been treated as the vilest and most despicable of men.

If in the political line any two men rendered to America, struggling for liberty, more distinguished service than others, those two men are JOHN ADAMS and JOHN JAY. In addition to their brilliant. services in Congress they negotiated that treaty which severed us for ever from Great-Britain; and, in spite of the influence of a Gallic party, obtained for us those boundaries, and those advantages which make us truly INDEPENDANT.

These are the men on whom those who during our contest for liberty were engaged against us, labor to heap up obloquy. With too much truth, therefore, does the Aurora say, "that a spirit has been manifested for some years back, even in America, to cover the authors of our independence with odium."