The Kentucky Gazette

From the (New-York) Time Piece.

Fools will be meddling.

At a time when the wise and prudent are exerting every nerve, and every friend to human nature is throwing in his mite, to preserve peace and good will among mankind, and prevent this country from being harassed by the scourge of nations, war, the interested & the designing are busy in blowing up the embers of discord. This spirit has at length found its way into colleges and academies of science into those institutions which ought to be the repositories of philosophy; where youth are, or ought to be, trained up to become the lights of the world, and qualify themselves to forward that great principle of humanizing, civilizing and harmonizing a race too naturally prone to discord and to render each other's situation uneasy on this earth. In several late college exhibitions in the different states, the pupils have spoken their sentiments (perhaps of their tutors) with unqualified acrimony, against that enlightened nation, which founding heroism on the principles of philosophy, has extended its benevolent idea of government into every quarter of the world, and thereby opened the way for that great philanthropic political system, without the prevalence of which on this globe, the whole of nature's sublunary works is an insoluble riddle, which daily prompts the fool to say in his heart, There's no God. It is in vain for you gentlemen to hope at the present crisis of things, to set the American nation at enmity with France. The republican spirit is peace, harmony, and good will among men; the sentiment of America must operate congenially with that of France, in order to confront the demon of monarchy, and drive him to his native obscurity. Ye preceptors, ye fathers of colleges, who possess sentiments unfriendly to the right of man, insult not the public mind, wound not the feelings of your audiences by making innocent youth the organs of your malice, and as far as lies in your power widen the breach, already too far effected by the arts of designing men, between the American and Gallic republics, our chain of unity, although not bright, will not be easily broken; and British property taken by the French during the time of war, under the protection of a neutral flag, without a reciprocal privilege allowed to France, is too unmeaning a cause for exciting serious misunderstandings between the two republics.