Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The acknowledgment of a Deity and a superintending providence is so contrary to the practice of the rulers of France, Tom Paine and his fellow-laborers in the cause of atheism, anarchy, and despotism, Bache and Callender, that blasphemy and slander, respecting the President's proclamation from these foreign agents, was a thing of course.

The following is a specimen from the Aurora of the 20th instant which ought to be more extensively known than the circulation of that paper will allow—it follows.

"For fear lest Omniscience should want intelligence, respecting Federal purity, and Jacobin guilt, our president has issued a proclamation for a fast and thanksgiving both in one day; he says that we are 'placed in a hazardous and afflictive situation by the unfriendly disposition' &c. of a foreign power. In short, Mr. Adams wants to have the first hearing; and to make every pulpit resound with declamations against France."

The town of Roxbury in Massachusetts, is from 6 to 8 miles square, the number of voters in the most settled part, and where the late meeting was held, is probably from 600 to 900.

Bache, instructed by the principal mover of the puppets, tells Callender to dub the friends of the constitution and government of the United States—Tories—but, I would ask this great man and these understrappers in disorganization, if they are so besotted as to suppose the people of the United States will ever believe that the present, or late President of the United States, and a long list of Statesmen and heroes, who effected the independence of this country, are Tories?

This is one of the most pitiful expedients the faction have ever had recourse to—with respect to the friends of their country it is harmless—but as it affects many of the champions of the Jacobin party, it is cruel, indeed it is—for they were Tories, and gloried in the appellation.