Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

NEW YORK, July 4.

The twentieth anniversary of American independence, still finds us in the uninterrupted enjoyment of every thing most dear to human nature.

While half the world remains afflicted by the desolating hand of cruel warfare—we are at peace!

There is no possible state either of political or domestic life, but what is subjected to some obtruding cares and disquietudes. But, what are the trivial embarrassments we have experienced as a nation, during the present almost general conflict, to the tremendous convulsions which are still agitating the European world? While it is most sincerely to be lamented that such calamitous events exist, on which, to make the comparison, it is on such ground alone that we are, in any case, enabled truly to estimate a more happy state.

But few words are requisite to describe our enviable situation. We can continue to trace, here, the firmer establishment of equal rights, and equal laws—the extension of knowledge—and the utmost advantages attained by our enterprising and industrious exertions.

"We behold our plains unbounded waving with the gifts of harvest;

Our seas with commerce throng'd,

Our busy ports with cheerful toil."

Whilst so much of our political horizon is still clear, let us not, on this auspicious day seize the telescopic glass, to descry the few dark clouds which the distant tempest may have driven toward our borders.

On an occasion like the present, the mind of an American should be engrossed by the inviting prospect—the prosperity of his country; and, with a cheerful heart evince that gratitude, which is due to a beneficent and superintending Providence!