Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, July 26.

The rules by which America can attain to that situation, which seems allotted for her, are very simple: 1st. To grant the impost to Congress. 2dly. To vest that body with ample powers to regulate the trade of the union. And 3dly, The eradication of the spirit of luxury. He who endeavours to promote these grand desiderata, is a real friend to America, and in effect to mankind in general. He who opposes those measures, or throws obstacles in the way of their attainment, may profess himself a red-hot whig, a patron or advocate of independence--or, Proteus-like, assume ten thousand different shapes, yet he will never be able to wipe away the stigma of being a destroyer--or (the option is his) a man unblest by the genial rays of reason or common sense. That those persons who in the different legislatures of America have tenaciously opposed such salutary objects, are as essentially and indeed more efficaciously countermining the efforts of America's deliverers, than the most desperate refugees could have done during the war, is so self-evident, that to attempt a proof of it would be an insult to the reader's understanding. And unless it is supposed, that they wish to signalize themselves, like Empedocles, by the mischief or ruin they can create, it is no easy matter to solve the enigma of their conduct. The vessels of America are rotting in harbours, or if they dare venture into the West Indies, they are seized without mercy or redress, and almost every citizen in the union suffers mediately or immediately in consequence--while all this could be very speedily remedied by enlarging the power of the amphictyonic council of the union--yet there are found men so lost to all sense of their country's welfare--of honour--of duty--and of shame as to disappoint the fervent wishes of America, under the shallow, ridiculous, contemptible pretence of danger from a body of men, over whom there are checks never before devised against lust of power in any part of the world! For shame! Americans! if such men deserve the name! blush at the ruin threatened by your conduct!

The reputation of America is at stake, and has in some measure received a shock, for want of punctual compliance with the sacred obligations entered into for the acquirement of that "first great gift of heaven, liberty"--yet New-York acts the absurd farce of granting the requisitionary impost in paper money, to pay the interest and part of the principal of European debts! This is truly to heap contumely on injury and injustice. Had her wise, honest legislators absolved themselves from the intolerable bonds of honour, justice and integrity, by passing an act of grace, to wipe away their quota of the federal debt, the violation of the social compact would have hardly been greater--the mockery would have been much less.