Daily National Intelligencer

From the Military Monitor.

TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.

The time when party distinction was comparatively innocent has passed away: and the day that requires union has dawned. We must now become one people, or we must cease to be a people exercising the right of self government. The robber is at the door, & we must no longer cavil as to the policy of permitting him to enter and possess himself of our estate. With one cry, we must say, no! with one impulse, in one body, we must resist the invader. If we have enemies amongst us, we must watch them, we must mark them; if, in our camp, there is an adherent of the enemy, let him be driven forth and sent to associate with his friends: he must be no friend of ours, if his actions are doubtful, or his policy neutral: "he that is not for us is against us." When peace will again smile on our land, when the enemy, defeated and disgraced, will again return to his home, and again purchase peace by concession, then we may debate how the government ought to be administered, whether by Federal Republicans or by Democratic Republicans;-but the contest of the present period must, like that of the revolutionary era, owe its success to an united people; the distinctions of Federalists and Republican, as well as those of war party and peace-party must disappear; as must every other, calculated to mask the hypocrite or conceal the enemy. That alone, which will distinguish between friends and foes, must remain. Rallied round our country's standard, let us bury all political jealousies. At our country's altar, let us, with one voice, swear to live free or die. On each side of that altar there should be placed a standard; on that to the right, the word Whig must be inscribed, on that to the left, the word Tory. There must be no neutral ground on which the vacillating or the masked enemy can rest. They must be with us or they must be against us. They must be whigs or they must be tories. This was the doctrine of 1776. It must be that of 1813. We are not degenerated; we are now, as our fathers were then, AMERICANS: "Divide and conquer" is the watch word of the enemy. Let our's be, "a strong pull, a long pull, and a pull all together." Thus will the hiding places of the internal enemy be laid open, the mask of the hypocrite be removed, and the neutrality of the lukewarm cooled into its real character, or forced to seek warmth at the fire of national resentment; and thus will the national government be enabled to calculate, with precision, the real force of the country, as well as to judge that of the enemy.