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The republicanism of our exclusive patriots has often been displayed in their denunciations of the proceedings of our government—
They profess to be friends to a representative government—to the rights of election—and on particular occasions cry up the infallibility of the majority, and represent it as a damnable political heresy to resist their decisions.
But, not content with giving the lie to their professions by general abuse of the proceedings of government for years together, whenever they are defeated in a particular object, by either of the branches of the legislature, they are so incautious as immediately to show their cloven foot, and all their reverence for the majority of the democratical branch is converted into Billingsgate.
Thus, "a majority of the House of Representatives were stigmatized as a rancorous faction merely because they exercised their own judgment in the choice of a clerk."
Very few of the ideas suggested by this detestable faction were ever adopted by a majority of either branch of the government, and they may safely be challenged to point out a single article that has received the legislative sanction, which they have not reprobated. These reflections are founded on facts, and ought to be held in constant remembrance by the people; they irresistibly demonstrate the truth of an old couplet: —
The public good men pretend,
Whilst private interest is their end.

The President of the United States is assailed by the harpies of faction on the subject of appointments: but here the friends of our country have nothing to fear, and its enemies nothing to hope.
Appointments will be made with a supreme regard to the public good.
Integrity and talents will be brought forward with independent firmness—for it would be a misfortune indeed if the public interests were to be sacrificed, because those who possess pre-eminent abilities to promote those interests, are allied to the President of the United States.
However great the independence and fortitude of mind requisite on the occasion—he, who has supported his country's honor and interest in the face of all Europe, will not be diverted from the steady support of the same objects, by the tools of that faction which he has successfully combated for so many years.
The good sense of the people saved the Constitution of the United States, and with it their liberties, when the treaty with Great-Britain was under consideration.
A party in the House of Representatives at that time to melt down and reduce the government into a single branch—What sort of freedom we should then have enjoyed, may be learned from the convention of Robespierre.
At the present moment there appears to be a similar design on foot but it will not succeed. A second time the people have stepped forward—and by their elections a majority is formed in the House of Representatives which will save the Constitution The assumption and exercise of all power by one branch is known to be the doctrine of those who, from the beginning, have opposed the Federal Government.
The Executive Directory of France have issued a proclamation respecting the primary assemblies for the elections. The rabble of the kingdom are here exhorted to be wise and temperate in their choice of rulers. Such admonitions to such pupils is like a precept to an oyster wench to avoid wearing and bawdry —ATHEISM, DEBAUCHERY, FACTION, Restlessness, and the SOLDIERY, are now the Five Kings of France. The nakedness of the Sansculotte comports with the name, and Madame Tallien, with her sister prostitutes have instituted a revolutionary modesty—wear their petticoats as high as their knees—and have abolished shifts as destructive of the proportions of nature! In the Provinces, the ancient French gentleman, and the disappointed peasant, are both inquiring, "Who will shew us any Good in the new order of things?"
Weary of requisitions, and of their blood-stained Rebel, they hum the tune of loyalty; and "The King shall have his own again", is believed and wished.
A Letter, purporting to be translated from the Paris Moniteur, published as the production of Mr. Jefferson, and signed with his name, contains such an imprudent avowal of seditious, and even treasonable designs, that we cannot suspect that the second officer in our government its author.
The probability is, that it is a French fabrication, calculated to sow jealousy, and rouse the fierce hatred of parties.

Farmers' Weekly Museum.
The doctrines advanced by the President in his speech, will be found, on examination, to be the perfection of political orthodoxy: —but they will not suit the preconceived opinions, and mistaken prejudices of a particular class, who are resolved at all hazards to oppose whatever is said or done by those in power. There is a ridiculous and base idea harbored by some persons in this country who have either brought it from Europe, or adopted it from such as are come from there, that a systematic opposition to the measures of government, is meritorious, and stamps their character with the mark of Patriotism. The extreme ignorance of some of these people, and the malignity of others, have so blinded and benighted their intellects as to disable them from seeing that a conduct so puerile must render them objects of contempt instead of patterns of imitation. Can it be supposed that Americans, who have struggled for independence, and who, after the experience of a feeble government, have deliberately given themselves a better and a stronger, should, the moment it is established, endeavor to subvert it? No—Those who are chargeable with such views are not Americans, either in principle or practice—They are Foreigners, the partizans of other nations who seek to ruin us: to divide and weaken is the direct way to destroy—It is a maxim as old as the path historical records—it is the dictate of wickedness and intrigue combined with some degree of apprehension for the people against whom it is played off—The Romans used it successfully—By their continual exertions to disunite the people from their government, both fell an easy prey, and the Roman Eagle soared triumphantly over every land to which his light was directed—Our strength consists in Union—That object should therefore be sedulously cultivated; and whoever tries to sow dissension and discord when it is so obvious that Union alone is the anchor of Hope, deserves, and should receive the execration of Americans. The President says—“While other States are desolated with foreign wars, or convulsed with intestine divisions, the United States present the pleasing prospect of a nation governed by mild and equal laws; generally satisfied with the possession of their rights; neither envying the advantages nor fearing the power of other nations; solicitous only for the maintenance of order and justice, and the preservation of liberty.” The introduction of the term generally in this paragraph was judicious; for although very few native Americans are dissatisfied with the administration of government, yet there are some among us who are so—What they want in numbers, is made up by clamor and impudence—and what they want of the means to subsist, is probably supplied from the conquered countries in Europe—It is next to impossible that men born here, or who from choice, adopt this country for their home—who have everything to lose, and nothing to gain in times of trouble, should labor, without the receipt or the hope of recompence, to render it miserable. Much has been said and insinuated against the virtue of Washington, Hamilton, and other uncorrupted patriots, by the partizans of foreign influence and domination; but, as they stand too firm on the strong ground of integrity to be affected by the efforts of a declining faction, their fame will forever remain unsullied; while their calumniators sink into oblivion; or if by some miracle, these are known in future times, it will only be to receive the blessings due to the Catalines of America.