Gazette Of The United States

From the title of the National Gazette (says a Correspondent) it was natural to expect that it would have been conspicuous for disseminating principles calculated to promote the great national interests of the United States—the national union, national credit, national prosperity, in respect to commerce, agriculture and manufactures—national respectability in reference to the constitution, the laws, and government; and in respect to the administration of the government, which is placed in the hands of the first patriots of the country, at the head of whom is the man who "unites all hearts," at least apparently; an administration which with so much harmony, concord and success, have given America a name in the earth, and made her the model of the nations that determine to be free. Instead of realizing these reasonable and just expectations, what do we behold?—A faction, who arrogating to themselves a superior degree of sensibility for the liberties of this country, are incessantly pouring forth, through the medium of that Gazette, a torrent of abuse against men and measures; and loading the government of the people with epithets of opprobrium, surpassing those formerly applied to the measures of the British ministry in their attempts to enslave us. This cannot be considered in any other point of view, than a continuation of that opposition which sprang up immediately on the promulgation of the constitution to which the United States is indebted for its present enjoyments and future prospects.

It may not be improper to exhibit, occasionally, an abstract of those sentiments and opinions, by which the party that supports this National Gazette propose to secure to the people the blessings of UNION, and a REPUBLICAN system of government.

C.

The following national sentiments appear in the National Gazette of Monday last:

"The Spirited conduct of Some good old whigs of 1775, in destroying the notification of the exciseman in Germantown, as a disgraceful badge of slavery, may convince our rulers that a free people will not be amused by financial palliatives.

The government of the United States in all things wishing to imitate the corrupt principles of the court of Great-Britain, has commenced the disgraceful career by an excise law, and during the last Session of Congress attempted a stamp duty on cards, with a sanctified pretence to discourage gambling!"

N. B. The acquiescence of the respective states in the excise law, is manifest from this circumstance—that they generally, if not all of them, have repealed their state excise laws, in consequence of that species of taxation's being assumed by Congress agreeable to the constitution.

Extract from the same paper.

"A respectable minority in Congress (the single vote of Gen. Jackson might have frequently made it a majority) have reprobated every one of the measures that are complained of; and if Pennsylvania had been represented in the Senate, many of those measures, which were carried only by the casting voice of the Vice-President, would perhaps never have been adopted."

Extract from Thursday's Gazette.

"That there was an evident bias in the House of Representatives, of a most singular nature, in the vote given the 21st of March last, must appear to every impartial examiner, who will take the trouble to cast his eye over the Yeas and Nays, where it will clearly appear that the northern members generally voted in the negative on the question for declaring Gen. Jackson entitled to a seat."

This is truly republican indeed! Thus also has the Speaker of the House been stigmatized in the National Gazette as a prejudiced man, for the abominable crime of exercising his own judgment!

Another extract.

"Was it a host of foreigners, who, with the President of the United States at their head, kicked out of doors the factionizing representation bill, to introduce a constitutional one?"

This shews the sentiments of the party—from such intolerance may the United States forever continue free.