Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

Extract of a letter from Northampton to a
gentleman in this city.

" The people here reason in this sort-
That in republican governments, offices of
honor and profit should be divided ; and that
to heap them all on one man, is incompatible
with republicanism : that Mr. McKean hath
been chief justice of the state ever since the
revolution : that his salary has been raised
three times, to gratify his ambition and avarice : that the appointment is for life, or during good behaviour: that he cannot be removed but by impeachment : that it is the
most honorable and lucrative office in the
state, except that of governor: that he ought
to set bounds to his ambition, or that the
good sense of the people should set bounds
for him : and that such strides to power are
truly alarming in a republican government.
" That he is closely connected with a
SPANISH NOBLEMAN, now Minister
for the Court of Spain in the city of Philadelphia ; that Spain the most despotic government in Europe, is now committing hostilities not only on the commerce of the
United States, but stirring up dissatisfaction
in the Indian tribes on our Southern and
Western frontiers; and that therefore to
elect him governor would be the height of
madness and absurdity, while there is one
drop of independent blood in the veins of
Americans, and that while there are hundreds of disinterested gentlemen of at least
equal abilities in this state to fill the exalted
station. These reflections must have great
weight with all well wishers to our beloved
independence, and will preponderate in favor
of James Ross, who is possessed of all the
good qualifications that Mr. McKean can
possess, without one of the exceptions. We
want no Noblemen-We conceive that one
who is so nearly allied to a foreign Nobleman must be too much under foreign influence to hold the important office of Governor."