Gazette Of The United States

From the Columbian Gazetteer.

In the days of contest between the characters of Whig and Tory, it was often asked, (and sometimes very gravely) to which of them we should suppose the Apostle Paul adhered--and a positive answer to this would have decided the opinion of most who made that enquiry.

The same implicit confidence is given at the present day, to the decisions of those of the first standing in the State, and a proportionable degree of it is always bestowed on men of eminence in every station; this, by many is supposed to be a very rational mode of Judging, in cases where one is not sufficiently acquainted with the merits of a cause to judge of it himself.--But there is a different class of mankind who upset the judgment of all who go in a higher walk of life, and that from a strange idea, of which they seem to be very fond, that goodness and greatness are incompatible, and that no one can be wise who knows more than themselves, or honest who holds more property.