Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

COMMUNICATIONS.

The cause of Republicanism.

Democrats, if now you hear half as much as you have said on this subject, you will be very weary, and very angry. But be patient, you have had your day.

You swear to a man that France renounces forever the unjust and abominable doctrine of meddling with other governments. This is not true, for Gregoire in his report says the rights and duties of nations (which he had made an enumeration of) relate only to those nations which have made liberty and equality the basis of their governments. The French of course are the judges.

But if it were so, which it is not, how could the cause of Republicanism depend on the French? A poor dependence if the wild, inconsistent and wicked acts of the French factions could affect that good cause. They may insult, they may disgrace it. It is not their affair to save it, or to exemplify it by their doings. No good Republican will pretend it.

This is one of the thousand and one Democratic lies and inconsistencies.

But admit the fact, that the cause of republicanism depends on the French. Then they serve it badly. Are the people of Sardinia made republicans, the Prussians, the Germans? No, no, no, nor the Spaniards. The French by treaty give a sanction to monarchy. Probably they agreed with Prussia that if he would quit the Coalition he should keep his share of plundered Poland.

The world will be left just as monarchial as ever. Let them not boast of Holland. It is a French province. But the Stadtholder was a mere shadow of the Executive power before he fled.

Let us be undeceived, though it will be a year or two later than the rest of the world. Their victories may conduct their armies to galleries of pictures and to rich cities. There they may load many waggons with plunder. But as to principles, Tippoo Saib advances them as much, and disgraces them less.

Let facts at last open the eyes of those moon-struck dupes who saw, and swore that they saw, a new republican millennium beginning in Europe. They saw "the Bob-tail'd mare" "go up into the air."