Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

NEW-YORK, July 12.

From the days of Adam, to this moment no country was ever so infested with corrupt and wicked men, as the United States. Imported " patriots," bankrupt speculators, rich bankrupts, " patriotic" Atheists, and other similar characters, are spread over the United States without number, deceiving the people with lies, gaining their confidence, corrupting their principles, and debauching their morals. We see in our new Republic the decrepitude of Vice ; and a free government hastening to ruin, with a rapidity without example.

Indeed if some check is not speedily put upon corruption, the American name will become infamous over the world. Nations observing the highest officers of-our Government to betray their trusts; Secretaries of State, members of Congress, Presidents of Banks, Collectors of Customs, and Governors of States, abandoning their duty and their country, defrauding the public and villifying their government; I say foreigners observing these things will lose their respect for the American character, and on any occasion, when traitors are wanted, will know where to apply for them. They will consider the Americans, especially those who assume the title of " Patriots, " as political prostitutes, who hang out signs of their infamous traffic, and for some price or other, are always ready for villainy.

To a real friend of his country, what can be more humiliating than the discovery of bad men amongst those citizens who have had the public confidence? What can be more mortifying than to see Americans, who live under a free constitution and in a fine climate, where any man can get an honest and decent living, and every man has a fair chance for honorable preferment-to see men in these circumstances, bought and sold by foreign nations; the mean dirty tools of foreign governments while they wrangle with their own-abandoning the posts of a citizen to rally round the standard of sedition-and as if uneasy in peace and quietness, attempting with mad zeal, to throw their country into confusion ? Yet how many thousands of such men now live in the bosom of our country ! thousands who enjoy public confidence, while they merit a halter!