Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

For the Gazette of the United States
Mr. Fenno,

THE offence which the Jacobin societies in this country take at being called "self-created" naturally excites the curiosity of the public to know who did create them, as well as what they were created for. The fact is, they were made by a foreign emissary for his own glory and that of those who appointed him. A board of philosophers having demonstrated that there was no power in Heaven or Hell and illegitimated all they found on earth, made out their own right to regenerate one nation, and to impregnate all the rest. Their apostle to us, having been furnished with the means and instructed in the arts necessary to his work, commenced his public ministry by preaching peace, with his pockets full of war commissions. He transubstantiated treason into expatriation, and revealed the mystery that a nation might be neutral and all her citizens at the same time engaged in acts of hostility. He moreover taught the people that the way to preserve their national independence was, to despise and reject the authorities which their wisdom had established, and of course to follow him. Incessant in his pursuit, he hired writers, bought speakers, paid printers, and organized these malcontents into corporations from Charleston to Boston, and through the wilderness from Vermont to Kentucky; some of which he beatified with his presence, and all with large portions of his spirit; which yet remains with them. He often ate and drank with the meanest of his disciples, and instructed them by signs and parables as they were able to receive his doctrine, that it was their right to rule, and that they might enjoy in this life what Odin promised his votaries in the next, the pleasure of drinking out of their enemies skulls. At one sitting, impiously likened to a communion, he instituted the sacraments of his order, not in bread and wine, but in pig and wine. The head of the poor animal, severed with a carver, and elevated on the points of a large fork, was given by him, and passed from hand to hand around the table; and a libation of wine, was at the name of Washington, dashed with the glass. Such was the origin of societies; certainly as unnecessary here as for the people to rise against themselves, and as absolutely unadapted for any thing but mischief, as a wolf is by his nature for any thing but to destroy, They are now, like their sister Jacobins in France, purging and wiping themselves clean of one rebellion, and preparing the way for another.