The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-07-16

thing, if you cannot have the Eyf. Then M
moving this Eccad party hilher and thitber ].
you pleale, if You are an able rafcal at ~,
buGHeis, it is ten to one that you 70 harra(S and
plague the government, Thar you oblige them j
Ian for fear Of greater mitchell at home. u
facr6ce their country 10 you in the point Won
were contending for. In the mean time. The
party 10 ufed and employed, finds great bere6r
fiom the foreign agent; for as on the one hand,
they can lcrve him BY bringing no matte,
what milery on their country, 70 he can ferv.
them by fhaking the conlequence Of govern.
mtnt among The people, bringing the oPpoiition
party nearer 70 power, and lending them fin
fbe name, and at laa if they want il, NE t6rts IF
his nation. This has been the Iake's ProgreG
Ct the iacobin party in America, in which he
who1edoms of France have made PRINCIPAL
figure. But let US look little deeper.
Hltory gives Us feveral n}ances Of certain
efervelences or lberty-lPots, which have broken
out on be body 81 Mankind, owing to i'll humors
or bad ciroulatons in the veins and arteries Of
government. But it was reltrved for France 10
prcjcd the Theme Of dif-aiing the whole BoSy y
Mankind AT once with the nervous fever Of al.
organization. The inf,nlibIe adoption of N.
French language, French manners, French
taihions, French levty and French atheiln.
which either calually, Or BY an unexampled per.
leverance il policy, had for lcveral centuries
taken place all over Europe, and were more Or
lels in almof al The courts Of The eaAern world
prepared the way for a conception 70 i'm.
menie As the lubugation Of The whole human
race under the mot familiar and cndearinE
names. Ii IS 70 wonder that the depoGtion
and decollaton Of a Jingle king fkouId be viewed
and treated as a ttiA--by leaders who had deter.
mined n execute this amazing but not imprac.
ticable plan. I'LL no wonder that all coalitions
ihOnld be condemned and broken which refRed
IN lohnitc MATS, i-lpired with all the Z" iacred
horror" Of liberty intuied by ambition, and NOV
ing \ ith incaIcuabc velocity and weight Nor
i X Orange that All the ropes and metaphors,
iacred ard Profane, and all the models Of elo-
quence which had preceded this Wait defgn.
were neglected as poor and mean, and a new
moral language made, commemorate to The
conquelt Of the human breat throughout the
world. This was done BY The Jacobins.
Reader, do not iuPPofe that by Jacobins here
| mean the very mnerabie things 70 called in
America. Thele lat are but fervile glow,
worms of fundamentally and imitation, to the
grand, and mutt confefs fublime and glorious
and finally burnt it to alhes. But let US not be
100 mnrb dazzled even by truly great and glo-
rlous things. Alas! we NUT return to the
hmPle g'gal AZ LAT. To proceed-in the com.
mcncement Of his grand operation ii was fore.
Teen that every exiting opinion NUT be called
a prejudice and probably an error, and the
human mind re uced TO a blaI k for the recep-
Hon q pure and Perf.9dotrines, that ~, that all
the governments in the world NUT BE fubverted.
o this end the mott capable villains were fent
TO all nations where they were not excluded BY
precautionary declaration of war, under the
name of ambthadors, whole millions have been
AZ iucceistul as from the fafcinating principle
OF their di~bolical inRrudions might very well
be expected. One of them, as was faid before,
made the jacobins Of the United States. But
further
Il was great b3fulafnrn in America how that
oPPoItiOn party which has been defcribed as
exiting, and perhaps ufeful, in all free govern
ments, lhOuld be formed. Had not the French
revolution happened, i might have turned upon
lndlAn wars, land jobbing, the debt, or foms-
thing ellie. Fortunately for France It was vet
TO be created, and ihe was lucky enough to
get i bottomed Preclely where me would
have Ii, on GRATITUDE TO HER. Could ther.
be more Certain method u have the people Or
the United States in her direction {? Was any
enaeament {Pared ? Was any tenderness
omitted And did ihe not become quite do |
meItoated II once, aud take family freedoms
HIT Che mott obligjnE and condelcendinq manner
even without invitation or ceremony Of any kind |
whatever Who wele the fools all this time! |
The Jacobins. Ay, and the ro2ucs , The /
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