Gazette Of The United States

Extract of a letter from Boston, July 10.

"The author of Publicola is not known; some suppose one person and some another, but there is no solicitude discovered about it; people are too much engaged in business to attend to newspaper writers; very few even read their long speculations—the general idea is that we have spent time enough to form Constitutions; and now we have a government, any change is contemplated with disgust.

It will not be easy for demagogues to stir up strife and raise a dust at this time—the predictions of the enemies to the government and its institutions, have been generally proved false by experience and facts, which again have confirmed the confidence of the people in its friends, as their favorable anticipations have been more than realized.—Those therefore who wish to become great by reducing really great men to little ones, will meet with a due reward, disappointment and chagrin.

As to Paine, he has great merit in pulling down bad governments, and in opposing bad men (Burke in particular); but I do not suppose him the best qualified to form a Constitution.—His motives I believe were laudable in writing against Burke, and the world will allow him the merit of his labors. Your city it seems has its wrongheads; as well as less enlightened places; the egotic pamphlet against the national bank is too poor a thing for any one except a political eunuch to father; but America must, it seems, have other kinds of heads as well as clear-heads.—Before this reaches you it will be seen how much this 'wonderful pamphlet has operated to prevent subscriptions to the bank: It is conjectured here, that the whole will be subscribed in a few days after the books are opened.

Should the first session of the next Congress pass with tolerable harmony, and their decisions be marked with wisdom, the government may then be considered as firmly fixed, even by the old doubters. But in our free country, some must have liberty to abuse liberty. May heaven in mercy to mankind preserve our general government as an example and blessing to the world."