Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Extract from an Address of the Editor of the Aurora, to his Patrons

"The increase in the circulation of his paper has been beyond the editor's most sanguine expectations; and since persecution has assumed against him a "form and pressure," it has been rapid beyond parallel. Thus the daring hand of persecution already counteracts its own designs; disappointment and despair may prompt to more audacious stretches of illegal power but under whatever form it may appear, of private assassination or public contempt of the established principles of the constitution and laws, or the more congenial instruments of oppressors prisons, chains, gibbets, the axe or bow-string, it shall never shake the firm determination of the editor to discharge his duty conscientiously: he may be made a victim to the dark rage of the worst enemies of our government and liberties: but it shall not be said of him, that he abandoned an important right, guaranteed by the constitution, because men entrusted for a time with the authority of the people, dared to forget their duty to trample on that right, and violate that constitution, It would be doubly criminal in him to shrink before the frowns of ambition or the malice of little men dazzled by the glare of power, at a time when the liberal support he receives from various parts of the United States, evince not only the stubborn consistency of freedom and the love of truth, but a marked approbation of his past conduct as well as a determination to aid him in the arduous and expensive undertaking in which he is engaged.

"The attention recently paid by his subscribers to old debts and prompt advances are marks of approbation the less equivocal because unsolicited, and very generally accompanied with the kindest and warmest expressions of esteem and friendship The editor has had many struggles with his vanity to keep these gratifying marks of attention from his fellow-citizens within his gratitude; the publication of them would evince, that all the calumnies of the enemies of liberty in this country, have not deprived the editor of the good opinion of a great portion of his fellow citizens. Of his efforts to render his paper valuable, for correct information, and the detection of ignorant or systematic imposture, he needs not speak-the facts daily detected speak for him: his efforts shall be unremitting, to render it a compendium of useful and entertaining information, and a scourge to tyrants of every denomination."