ruggling in want, are no gentlemen. Freedom is a Divinity, who
does not leave in want her dutiful worshippers: and the Fathers' ashes of
this Union are still warm with the truth of this sacred sentiment. It is
with sorrow of mind I hear unitedstatians asserting with sophisms, and
without shame, that, as the best liberty is wealth, they do not adhere,
but to those members of congress, whose speeches benefit right, or wrong,
their only direct interest. Hence the contestations of party men, whose
advocates are shamefully called orators, because they feel with them the
babbling of their private interest.--Liberty for me, and slavery for my
neighbor!

Virtue, integrity, justice, and so on, are all ridiculous, and empty
words, when pronounced by that merchant, inveighing against the so called
Nullifier, who demonstrated the advantages of free havens. And why does
the physician hate that philosopher, who demonstrated, that a great
quantity of physic impairs our constitution? And why, that printer
declines from publishing that article of a true literary man? Had we not
heard that divine, speaking badly of that dancing master, and of his art;
and while this, should look with respect at another true pious moralist,
had not the dancing master called a worthy divine a hypocrite? Is it not,
the moderate, and healthy exercise of dancing beneficient to morals? And
morals and modesty do they not give a fine, and lovely countenance, to the
graceful art of Vestris? _Mens sana in corpore sano._ That we are not
civilized yet, it is sufficient to see how many imperfect professional men
flourish in this country, not for their proficiency; but, because they
slander their professional superiors. And why those interested contrary
parties became to personalities, unless they have forgotten the academical
language of freedom, and virtue? That pretended man of letters, is he not
displeased to find another man of letters more enlightened than himself;
while, instead of wishing to be indicated by an ignorant community, as the
first man of his age, he should love arts, and sciences, for the sake,
only, of social benefit, and the improvement of his own mind? Thus, every
one in turning the stream of water towards his own mill, stops its
beneficient course, while they should build their mills one under the
other. In our european, and american semi-barbarian societies, almost
every one wishes to imitate a Cesar, or a Napoleon, while they call
themselves r