The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NEW-YORK, October 31.

The universal and spontaneous effusions of gratitude and respect, which are discovered by the people to THE PRESIDENT of the United States, in every stage of his progress through the eastern States, afford the liveliest and strongest testimonies of their attachment to this illustrious character--they are to a feeling heart, and as he beautifully expresses it in his answer to the Hartford Address, "the most acceptable compensation for publick services"--while at the same time they are the highest compliment to the patriotism and good sense of the people.

When we read accounts of triumphal entries of the Roman conquerors, with wretched victims dragged at their chariot wheels, how sunk and depraved does human nature appear! Can it be possible that a people who took delight in such spectacles of barbarity, ever felt a sentiment of generous freedom? No--it cannot be supposed that they ever did. Their boasted freedom and love of liberty, consisted in a power and disposition to humble, and enslave all the world beside. With what propriety then are their examples cited as models for the imitation of the free, and enlightened citizens of the American Republic?

The people of the United States love good government--and their honest and consistent patriots are respected to a degree of veneration--Nor can an instance be pointed out of their ever deserting, or ceasing to express the strongest attachment to their civil rulers, where abilities and integrity are united, and the public mind has fair play.--But as men of honesty, and fair principles, are more liable to imposition, than characters long practised in the arts of deceit, and cunning--so the generous confidence of the people is often betrayed, by the misrepresentations of those, whose interest cannot be advanced, while honest men stand in their way, or enjoy the public esteem.