Gazette Of The United States

FROM THE N. Y. DAILY ADVERTISER.
THE ALARM!-No. VII.
ALEPH. MY first head of argument to shew that
the treaty is execrable, is drawn from the advisers of
it. The principal and only responsible adviser is the
President of the United States. What part Camillus
had in the business is not precisely known, farther than
that there is no mischief going forward in which he has
not his hand. The Senate too, ought to come in for a
Share-but when it is divided among so many, it is
hard to affix to each his due proportion. I shall consi-
der the President as the great culprit.
He, it would seem, guided by some maxims imbib-
ed in his youth, and taken from that antiquated book
the bible, where it was written, " If thy brother tre-
spass against thee, go and tell him alone;" and again,
" Follow peace with all men;" advised this strange ne-
gotiation. He might also have been influenced by
these words, " What king, going to make war against
another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth, whe-
ther he be able with ten thousand to meet him that com-
eth with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is
yet a great way off, he sendeth an embassage, and de-
sireth conditions of peace." What weakness was all
this? Ought not the President to have known, that
though in old times, these rules were esteemed good,
yet they are now exploded, and that true liberty-boys
discard all government and all religion but what is
found in the writings of Thomas Paine, and accords
with their own interests and passions.
But, two champions having attacked the President, it
would be unmanly in me to make a third, and it would
be ungenerous to rob them of the spoils of victory. I leave
him therefore to Hancock and Valerius, begging them
for the good which he has done, to shew him a little
mercy, and suffer the old man to die in peace in the
shades of Mount Vernon. Solicitous as I am to blow
up this abominable treaty, I am afraid that other nati-
ons, and posterity, will charge us with ingratitude, and
that the laurels which will wave around the tomb of Washington is another consideration which has no small weight
with me. I hear my Clergyman pray every Sunday
for the President; that God would long preserve his
life; that he would continue to him the love and con-
fidence of his country; and, tho' I have read "The
age of reason," Boulanger, and some other liberal wri-
tes, published by Mr. Fellows. for the good of the
world, yet I cannot divest myself of early prejudices in
favour of the Christian religion, and a belief that I must
account at last to the great judge of all.
I hope my fellow-democrats will forgive me for this
honest confession, when I assure them that the Presi-
dent advised the treaty without consulting us the so-
vereign people, and that the writers mentioned, will
bring all his motives to light. Besides, I do hereby
promise, that on the next head, namely the negotiator,
I shall not be so squeamish, but freely unfold the great
mystery of iniquity.
Newark.
JONATHAN.