Jenks's Portland Gazette

From the Providence Gazette

President Washington's Valedictory Address, is the most invaluable legacy ever bequeathed by a statesman to his country. The following extract illustrates, with prophetic sagacity, the horrors of the French revolution. The character and conduct of Buonaparte are here drawn in colours so strong, that one would almost suppose a personal application was intended.

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by a spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. Even this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."

Americans, beware!—rest assured that the object of those who attempt to execute a jealousy and distrust against the government of your choice, is nothing less than to establish a despotism of the same kind.