The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-10-29
EXTRACT
From tie Go0srnOr's Speech,
Delivered at the opening Of the FELTON, Of the
LEGISLATURE or CONNECTICUT.

60 DIFFERENCES ftIH 1uDllltlng De-
tween the United States and France,
all our vigilance and activity will be
required, to guard againf the arts and
the arms of that naughty and intrigue
ing foreign power. Situated as the
United States are, the arms of France
are not to be dreaded but their arts
Of feduaion, and their intrigues at
diyifion and difunion, fill me with ap-
prehenfion and caution with theie
arts, they are interchangeable and power
ful-in thele, they boat their hyperion
lsill among the nations, like the in
frigues of PHILLIp of Macedon, where
political articles employed againit the
Grecian Rates, did more towards ruin
inc their liberties and power, than that
artful Prince, in any other way could
have effected. With this ancient ex-
ample on our minds, as we'll as the very
recent and melancholy experience of
modern European nations before our
eyes, let us be taught the neceflity of
guarding ourfelves againR the fatal ef-
fects of foreign intrigues, party fpirit,
and divided opinions. Let US con-
family bear in mind, that if ever we
are reduced by the power of France,
or fubiugated to her will, or that of
any other imperious yoke, it mutt be
effected by the arts of diiunion and di-
vifion. A divided and difunited peo-
pie cannot be happy people nor can
they maintain themlelyes in an honora-
bic or dcfenGble fate. Let union be
our polar itar, to guide our conduct,
and true national independence our
Object, and the efforts Of the world
cannot prove fuccefsful againlt the
power of this happy fituated country.
a thorough conviction of the juifnels
Of this idea, and the awful danger and
fatal effects of difunion and divilion,
will form my apology for dwelling on
this fubie61. Among numberiefs other
articles which at this time are brought
into operation, two great engineSwhich
are made ufe of by our enemies againf
us, are, French infdelity and French
philoiophy-the one operating to the
delfruaion of all religious fentiments
the other unhinging every focal and
human tie by which focieties are &C.
mented both together, tending to in
troduce universal diforder, and confl-
fon. Thefe two horrii engines, the
footlteps of which, alas are but too
wildly to be traced in many parts Of
our country, form the mott democrat
izing and diforganizing lyGem that
ever attacked the happinefs and focal
enjoyment Ct mankind. In France the
practice Of this iylem has introduced
the exifence every vice and calamity;
and in that pretended republic, national
happinefs--I might almol fay, indivi-
dual enjoyment, is fcarcely known;
certainly not to be realized. The
iituation Of France at this time, prefents
fuch fcenes of iniquity and violence,
from this horrid fource, as gives an
awful and infruaive lefon to all fur
rounding nations, who attentively view
her conduct. Rather than adopt this
fatal fyfem, how carefully fhould we
cling to our holy religion the princi- (!
pies of which form an almof infinite
eontraif with the falfc glare Of this
ipecious and inhdeI philofophy f; and
the practice of which, not only affords
fubaanial happiness in life, but gives
the bef hopes of futurity. How ad-
mirably hyperion to all the ingenious
pretences of French philofophy is that
noble precept of our holy religion,
which enjoins upon us the doing to
others, whatever under like circum-
fances, we fhould reafonably cxpect
from them to us. In hria adher-
ance to this highly preferable fytem,
we may hope to avoid thofe fcenes Of
vice and mifery, which France now ex-
periences, and to efcape that torrent of
national arrangement, which threaten
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