Gazette Of The United States

EXTRACTS,
From the Columbian Centinel.

Notwithstanding the great diversity of political
sentiment on many subjects, all concur
in opinion, that the prosperity of our country
disappoints the wishes of her enemies, and
surpasses the hopes of her most sanguine
friends.

The husbandman finds an high price, and
increasing demand for the products of his soil.
The mechanic has constant employ, and full
compensation for his labour and skill. The
merchant visits every part of the globe, in
successful pursuits of gain ; and while the nations
of Europe are engaged in destroying
each other, his ships can alone supply them
with the bread that feeds, or the apparel that
covers them.

Free from restraint, and welcomed to every
shore, the American seaman can securely, and
almost exclusively, carry the produce of the
world, and command a recompence equal to
his wishes. In Europe, the sailors are employed
in navigating their ships of war--the
artizans, instead of fabricating the conveniences
of life--the husbandmen, instead of
tilling the soil, and producing subsistence for
themselves, and others, are busied in mutual
destruction. Americans enjoy almost a monopoly
of feeding and carrying for the richest,
and most populous nations of the earth. This
enviable condition the people of the United
States know well how to estimate : and, in
justice to themselves and posterity, cannot,
will not put at hazard. They have too lately
experienced the horrors of war, and too dearly
paid for peace and good government, to
risk their present tranquility.