Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

From the Centinel.

Mr. Ruel,

One plea for the very extraordinary coldness of the answer of the House of Representatives, to the excellent and admired Speech of the President, was this—By taking any notice of the self-created societies, in the answer we shall raise up the Clubs into importance. Leaving the good sense and the sincerity of this excuse out of the question, I have turned my eyes to the operation of the debate, in order to discover whether there was any foundation for it in the event, and I beg leave to ask the doubters, whether experience has not fully convinced them, that the public discussion has not raised up these enemies of republican liberty, into power and importance. There has been time enough to gather the sense of the country, and I venture to say from an extensive enquiry, from the evidence of very many private letters, from the newspapers of almost all the states, and from every ordinary channel of intelligence, that the self created societies are down almost below contempt. The universal voice of the country people is against them, and in our cities, the numbers of their rabble are contemptible—as to the sort of people that support them, if they would do to show, if they would bear exhibiting in a printed list, would they not long before this, have published their muster roll? They know better than to leave their holes.

The truth is, and the event has proved, that the debate in Congress, has roused our enlightened citizens to examine the question. Imposture has shrunk from the light of truth. The patriots in masquerade, have been tripped. Opinion is doing in our country that work of reform, that the Convention of France have been obliged to attempt, by a formal decree, and will perhaps be unable to accomplish without force and bloodshed.

NO JACOBIN.