<< law, and confidence in those who are charged with the adminiftration, will confequently "follow. But when the property of the citizen " is unprotected, nay even his facred perfon "can find no protection when the ho"nour of the nation is become so profituted, "that an invafion of territory or denial of just right is fubmitted to with humility-when "the national honour cannot be afferted, be"cause it might interfere with the venal pro

jects of a certain junto-when every measure "which is pretended to be pursued for the pub"lic welfare, is veiled with a mysterious fecre"cy becoming a Turkish Divan, and when "men are appointed to procure redress-in "whom the people most interested, have no "confidence, and against whom conftitutional "objections are juftly fuggefted-what are we "to expect?---difguft, difcontent, and total want of confidence must refult.

"That the people are diffatisfied, and do "complain from New Hampshire to Georgia, "from the ocean to the Miffiffippi, is what no

* I wonder whether this furious Democrat would have the Congrefs go in perfon, and tear the Dey of Algiers's eyes out? How could they help the peace between the Algerines and Portuguese, any more than they can help its thundering or raining? I'll venture my life this liberty boy has never given a penny towards the ransoming of the prifoners in Algiers.

"prostituted fycophant of power will dare deny-That those complaints are too well "founded is our misfortune---but if you " doubt, ask your merchant what redrefs he "has received for his property robbed and plun"dered upon the most infamous pretexts? afk

your mariner what redress he has received for "the lofs of his hard earned fervices,* for his

fuffering by prifon, fhips, and impreffment? "afk your fellow citizens from one end of our "extenfive frontier to the other, what they "fuffer? On the one hand they are exposed to "the murdering hatchet of the favage Indians, "and the encroachments of the more favage Bri"ton.-On the other a natural right is withheld,

though fecured by folemn treaty.—But under all "thefe difgraceful and diftreffing circum"ftances, we are told that our complaints, are "the ebullitions of a reftlefs difpofition, or "that they are created by the machinations of "a faction-for we have a moft excellent go"vernment, and virtuous, and great men to "adminifter it.--That the government is good "we believe--but without charging any par"ticular branch of it, we shall not hesitate to "pronounce that our affairs are badly conduct"ed and whether from the errors of ignorance

* I suppose the reader knows, that Democrats claim as a natural privilege, an exemption from writing and fpeaking fenfe.

"or the defigns of wickedness, a remedy "should be applied---And thank God! that

remedy, though not immediately, will, 'ere "long be in the bands of the people*-then it is to "be hoped that the true Republicans of America "will unite, and hurl with just resentment "from their exalted ftations, men who have "abufed the confidence of a generous people. "To effect this persevere ye writers in de"fence of liberty--and you Popular Societies, "relax not your laudable purfuits, your coun"trymen fhall blefs you, and your honeft zeal "fhall be crowned with patriotic rewards"let no confideration of past services, or temporary dignity, deter you from exhibiting to public view the public fervant who has abused his truft, or acts not for the intereft of thofe "who conftituted him. Difregard the infinu"ations of men who object to fuch inftitutions; 66 no man would object to fuch focieties, but "one who wishes to reduce you to the condition of flaves, to deprive you of the right of thinking and exercifing your opinions upon public affairs, or one whofe conduct will not bear the test " of investigation."

I could go on to a thousand pages with pieces of this caft, that have appeared within

*This prophecy appeared in print about the 20th of July last, just at the time when the Rebellion in the West was breaking out; its date explains its meaning.

the last nine months; but, I dare fay, the reader will excufe my ftopping here. This piece was among the firft I came at, and I have copied it word for word and letter for letter, without even the omiffion of a comma or a dash. Since the failure of a certain enterprise, there is no doubt that the Author or Authors of it would with it turned into blank paper, but, alas! the with is vain; in vain would they cry, with Lady Macbeth; "out, "damn'd fpot!" It is like--their repu

tations.

Thus then, I think, nobody will deny, that a hatred of the British Government and of that of the United States go hand in hand. Nor is the reason of this at all myfterious; it is not because of their resemblance to each other in form, nor, as the Democrats have ingenioufly observed, because "there is fome danger

ous connection between Great Britain and "our public affairs;" it is because they are both pursuing the fame line of conduct with refpect to clubs and confpirations. It is because they have both the fame radical defect, a power to fupprefs anarchy; it is, to fay all in one word, because they are governments. Great Britain has a government of fome fort (nobody will deny that, I fuppofe), and this is fufficient to merit their execration. It is not the form of a government, it is not the manner of its

administration; it is the thing itself they are at war with, and they must be eternally at war with; for government implies order, and order and anarchy can never agree. The Carmagnole fystem (if there can be any system in annihilation) is exactly adapted to their tafte and intereft, a fyftem that has made "rich men look fad, and ruffians dance and

fing." If this were not the true reason, why fuch an eternal larum about the British Government? What have we or our Demo

crats to do with it? If the people of that country like it, why need it pefter us? That pious and patriotic Scotchman, the Author of the Political Progress, tells us " to wish that an

Earthquake or a Volcano may bury the "whole British Islands* together in the cen"tre of the globe; that a single, but decisive "exertion of Almighty vengeance may ter"minate the progress † and the remembrance "of their crimes." Yea, be it even as thou fayeft, thou mighty Cyclop; but let us leave them then to the vengeance of the Almighty; let us not ufurp the place of the Thunderer.

Understand me, reader; I would by no means infinuate, that a man cannot be a firm

And the Isle of Sky, that "terrestrial Paradise," among the rest?

+ If fome fuch exertion had terminated another progress, it might have spared fomebody a good many fits of the gripes.