The Kentucky Gazette

AMERICAN OCCURRENCES
LEXINGTON, October 8.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Philadelphia, to his friend in this place, dated August 16th 1791.

"Dissenters were never before so terrible in England to the church, or to majesty as they now are. Every man of the church and every friend to monarchy, now wish they had done that powerful body of men some sort of justice long ago; but their case involves a dilemma: If their just rights are recognised, they will give such weight to the friends of a revolution as cannot be withstood: and if those rights are refused them, the principles which force their way into the hands of all men will justify every attempt tending to assert and recover those rights, which requires but an effort, to be made successful as any ruinous event can be and as a great majority are beyond doubt ready to make, at a moment's warning, and only wait this signal of a favorable opportunity, which cannot be long wanting. An obstinate perseverance by the ministry in this project of compelling Russia to relinquish all her conquests may afford that opportunity---Spain, considerable sufferer in that project, certainly will aid it--It is not impossible, that a clamour against the minister for his foolish conduct toward America, respecting a commercial treaty, may be produced immediately after the effect of that conduct is felt in forming us into manufactures which in paper-making, card-making, steel and many other articles, are now perfect here----or any other thing, which may enter the public mind but for a few days --.The nation is ripe for the measure - in every part except, perhaps, a small piece of the North side, whose little interest may concern in a short time.

"The Democratic party of Pennsylvania have not derived from the new Constitution the advantages they certainly expected, at least for the present, the elections still generally turning in favour of the democratic interest-- There is however, a good understanding tolerably well kept up, between the parties, and they will probably wear each other down, so as to look pretty much alike in a few years-- the points on which they will be the most liable to differ widely, will be, I presume, those in which the government of the united States run across the claims of this state! Some such will probably occur and occasion debates of some warmth, which, however will not last long--nor occur frequently."