Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

From the New-York Diary.

To the Democratic Society of the City of New-York.

WHEN perusing your address to the people of the United States, wherein you in one part say, "We call upon our enemies to form amongst themselves a permanent political society in this city, under any name they please, let their number be equal to ours; we will reciprocally exchange the name of each individual member, and thereby give an equal opportunity to them, and of us, of diffusing the character, the opinions, the general conduct of each person composing the two societies, from the memorable 19th of April, 1775, to the present moment, and thus place it in the power of you, our fellow citizens, to discover on which side the love of country, and the true principles of republicanism, have been most prevalent."

I must, as an individual, entertain an indifferent opinion of your cause, or of those who support it, to see you reduced to the necessity of proposing-so wise a measure as the test of your principles. Do you suppose the citizens of America less enlightened than those composing your society, and that they would accede to your childish proposal? Or, are you so ashamed of your conduct that you desire some similar institution to take a part of your mortification? If you acted upon the generous principles you so much boast of, why not publish a list of those whose characters, principles or general conduct since '75, you dare lay before your fellow-citizens? If their virtues are already known, it will seem still to lighten them by their own lustre.
Further exertions being disseminated in the cause of their country, in forming their Democratic Society, upon the pure base of liberty and equality. If otherwise, let our fellow-citizens, anxious for so laudable an institution being perfected, judge them according to their merits, and if they prove unworthy of being members of your society, present them at the bar of your club, and make them undergo your ordeal.—I am doubtful whether there are many who will bear that examination you intimate they will —I reverence the man, who, after he has fought well the battles of his country, returns and acts the part of a good citizen; but he is ever to be detested, who loses in peace the honor he has gained in war; who connects himself with a faction, and ever tries to excite alarm in the breast of his neighbor. Before you come forward with such disinterested proposals, Democrats, instruct the President of your institution in your political scheme, and not let your fellow-citizens, while listening to your generous principles, be deafened by the voice of your principal personage, telling them they are not truths. For who can believe you, when asserting that your intention is not to form an electioneering society, when your President is sitting at the poll, telling to all around him, "That if they do not succeed this year, their society will increase, and on the next year, they will get in their own creatures." Does not this belie you? And who would suppose, when reading your mild address, that one of your most violent candidates for the late election, who frequently asserted that if it was in his power he would go into the war immediately, was the author?—By the writings of a person, as well as by the countenance, you can readily distinguish what passes in the mind; and in your address is visibly delineated a violent passion, but moderately bridled. With these few remarks, I leave you; with wishes that every one on the list (which I doubt not you will publish) will prove even to have existed in '75.

UNPREJUDICED.