Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

The Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12

From the NEW-YORK GAZETTE.

There seems to exist a degrading opinion among some of our American patriots: that every man in this country must be attached either to France or England. The real partizans of British ascendancy, and the American sans culottes, both entertain this ridiculous sentiment, at least in appearance, and make it the engine for accomplishing their respective views. The real fact however, is, that there are THREE parties in the United States—one blindly devoted to Great Britain—another to France—each very cordially detests the other, and wishes them to the devil. But, there is a third class, consisting of principled Americans; who contended for our glorious independence; sacrificed their health, ease and property in its defence; and who, rejecting with contempt the idea of partial attachments to any nation, exclusively, bestow all their regard upon that dear country! for the defence of which they so nobly fought and suffered. These are our true patriots, upon whom dependance can be placed in the trying hour of danger—and not the vagabonds who fly from persecution for villanies in their native land, and here enter as hirelings, into the service of those who daringly advocate the robbery and oppression exercised by Great Britain and France upon our defenceless trade.

A silly paragraph in Greenleaf's paper, is written wholly under the impression that the people of this country are all either partizans of the British or French. The author must be some foreigner recently imported, who knows nothing of the disposition of our genuine citizens, and who for the sake of dabbling among the dirty calumniators of American merit throws out a string of political absurdities to exhibit his native ignorance of the country which has admitted him. The paragraph is so construed as to induce a belief that the writer is a friend to America—but the cloven foot is obvious from the partiality he shews to one set of our enemies, while he vituperatively declaims against the other. Of all such—of the abusers of our excellent public officers, and defamers of tried merit, we should beware—and never admit what they assert, until it is proved to a demonstration—for, a fellow who will prostitute himself for money to advocate any cause without regard to principle, is a bad member of society—and like all Liars, he—Should be suspected if even by chance he DEVIATES into TRUTH.

The following, we believe, is the paragraph to which the above writer has reference.

The ABUSE which is continually poured forth from certain presses in the United States against the French people must convince every candid observer that a faction exists in this country inimical to our constitution and to the genuine rights of the people. We sometimes see lengthy paragraphs of calumny, extracts of letters from London charging the French with setting fire to our cities and towns. answers from the Spanish minister to the French government on the defeat of the Spanish fleet, and a number of other publications, which, too evidently, bear the marks of falsehood and deception. When recourse is had to such vile means to injure the sister republic, we must naturally suppose, that the authors are inimical to the principles of liberty and are artfully endeavoring to widen the breach between the citizens of the two countries. Let the republicans of the United States be attentive to the proceedings of a British party among us, who are striving, by every subterfuge which resentment can dictate, to sap the foundation of our liberties, and once more bring us under the dominion of our former tyrants.