National Gazette

Tomorrow completes SEVENTEEN years since the Declaration of Independence in this country. By accounts from different parts of the United States, the day will be very generally celebrated, in commemoration of that extraordinary event, which gave birth to the infant liberties of 3 millions (at this day near 4 millions) of our countrymen, and which seems finally to involve in its consequences a new political order and condition of things among mankind, infinitely more favourable than at any former period, to the general happiness of the species. It may be here proper to remark that the mere observation of the Day can answer no valuable purpose, if, amidst the hilarity usually manifested on the occasion, it does not recall every intelligent mind to a rational re-examination and conviction of the truth of those great principles upon which our revolution was founded, and which if not duly attended to by every citizen in his whole line of conduct, might, for us, as well have never been called into existence. Let republican patriotism revive, then, and let every individual re-acknowledge those great and benign principles that actuated his countrymen or himself on the FOURTH OF JULY, 1776, in the glorious cause of the rights of human nature, political equality, and a government founded on the authority of the people.