Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

NORFOLK, January 16.
ORDER.
In the name of heaven! Mr. Davis,
is there any rebellion or disorder within
the United States at this time? If I
look into your paper, let the subject be
whatever you please, I find order is the
burden of the song—for instance if a
little insignificant scribbler, who signs
himself Civis in the Herald No. 43,
dealing in Italic references, which no
one understands, wants to recommend
himself to the public attention, he sets
out by telling us that he is a friend to
order. Mr. Ames in his long winded
speech, declares that if the freedom of
the press should be restricted by the a-
doption of his propositions, he has no-
thing in view but the preservation of or-
der. The president, he exhorts us to
pray that the Lord will dispose our
hearts to order. It is not, Mr. Davis,
in your paper only that such a hue and
cry is raised after order—I find it every
where the case. The Mayor of a town
sends an address to the Commander in
Chief, mutual compliments are passed
upon the love of order— The Field Offi-
cers they address the Brigadier Gene-
rals, the Captains they address the
Field Officers, the Sergeants the Cap-
tains, the Corporals the Sergeants, and
soon, through every grade order is the
burden of the song. Now, Mr. Da-
vis, as I have heard from indisputable
authority that the western insurrection
has been signally suppressed, I could not
find out who are the enemies of order,
for this purpose I applied to a friend of
mine for information, who wished to
convince me how ignorant I was of the
state of my country—
" The enemies of order (says my
friend) are numerous—To begin, every
man who dares, to call in question, the
wisdom of any measure directed by the
Executive of the United States, is an
enemy to order—If any man thinks a
public debt is not a public blessing, he
is an enemy to order—Any man who
dares to complain under all the robbe-
ries which Great Britain have commit-
ted upon us, is an enemy to order—If
any man thinks the Chief Justice of the
United States, cannot discharge the
functions of Chief Justice & Envoy Ex-
traordinary to the Court of St. James's
at one and the same time, he is an ene-
my to order—Any man who has the
hardihood to think " proclamations.
are not as sacred and binding as
laws. " is an enemy to order—Any
man who wishes success to the cause of
the French patriots, is guilty of a breach
of neutrality, and is an enemy to order
—Any man who thinks that govern-
ment was not intended for those who
administer it but for the benefit of the
public, is an enemy to order—Any
man " —My friend was proceeding
when I interrupted him, by remarking
that he had already included nine tenths
of the real American citizens, and that
so far from being of his opinion, I was
persuaded the people he had described
were the only friends of the constitution
and the laws, that those pretended sup-
porters of order were members of an
ambitious junto, who endeavoured to
affix the stigma of anarchy and disor-
der upon men, who, separating the go-
vernment from the administration, admire
and will support the one, though they
may despise the other. Let us be
upon the watch, the brawlers about or-
der are the greatest enemies to a free
constitution.
PETER PLAINMAN.