b'or the Guzeilt of iui • 6.'tics,
Mr.. FekSo.
A clwra&sr of cminertfe in the poli
tical world has laid that the bt.it gov
ernment may bt destroyed by re-iterated
a:id iinrefuted calumny. Tlie conltant
repetition of attwk will finally detlroy
the Itronifelt work. The appearance
oi a fettled design in a certain parly in
the United States to overthrow our
cpnltiuition lias luggelted these remark?.
While thele attack 1 ,! were limply the fee
ble efforts ol (cattered individuals, their
malevolence was left to be dreaded thanr
deijjiied : but at this day when their in
choate projects have ripened into a re
gular iyitem, llrerigthencd by numerous
combination* and lpreaJing theml'elvef
all over the contlnfcni, it behoves every
j:ood citizen, Who values the exillence
lit union aitu.hg tile Hates and a regular
gc vernmetit to oppose the extcnfiuo of
tu formidable an efiethy to both.
.Shortly after the arrival of Genet in
this country, a club was instituted at
Philadelphia und£r the title of the De
mocratic Sicle'ly; tlie period of its i'n-
Citution aud many well known cireum
ftancesattending it, autlventicate tlie re
port that Genet was its founder , the
primary and real, objett of this society
was to propagate French principles a
mong us, aud to gafficize the American
nation, and to vilify and insult the ex(C
cutive of the United .States if he ihould
oppose the will anii views of their pat
ron : the tjlenjsble objeS was to check
the unqoi.i'htutional, encroachment of
government, and to keep alive pure de
mocratic principles. How far thii vir
tuous conclave answered the wishes of
their founder, their publications have
d -monftrated ; how far their proceed
ings corresponded with his defifjns, the
precipice to which our public affairs
were brought la ft year, and from which
they were rescued by the magnanimous
conduct of" the Piefident, is a fufficient
proof. After the recal and disgrace of
their Creator, this junto, unwilling to
dilband themselves, and having acquired
fume degree of influence by the afibcia
tion of a few filter societies, gave a new
di'eft ion to thiir views; that vanity,
which had firft brought the leaders into
view, and had designated them to te
net as tit inftrliments for his purposes,
which had afterwards prompted them to
figure as orators on the floor of their
club rooms, riow opened to their views
the seducing profpeft of a more dignifi
ed and enlarged theatre. Ambition soon
united with vanity to urge theCe leaders
to every measure which could accom
plish the Jefired object. A feat in Co#i
grefs or in a ilate assembly, or a lucra
tive-office under the federal or state go
vernments,'one or other was lhe goal
proposed, according to the degree of
ambition, vanityy etipidityi or influence
of the tefpeftive leaders.*
To succeed in their views it was ne-
cefiary to remeve out of their way ali
thr-1% public characters who enjoyed the
public confidence, for they had sense
enough to fie that they cotild not get
i:r, until the others were put out.
To fueceed in turning out those
whose Rations they coveted, it was ne
ceflary to prejudice the public mind a
gaiuft them. This was to be done by
a regular, fvftematieal, and unabating
abuse of all the pioceedings of govern
ment, but particularly those i measures
which were owing to the exertions of
their riva's. By afTociatmg a number
of clul'is, all stimulated by one common
motive, all uniting their joint efforts, all
diflfercinating the inflammatory publica
tions of each other, such a fund of ma
terials was established, and such a mo
mentum of force provided, as mufl in a
short period , effectually crush their ad
versaries.
' The above short history of the institu
tion and views of these clubs is a clue
to their conduct. If any Ihould enter
tain a doubt, a review of their refol'oti
ossand 3 little infiglit into their private
transactions must completely remove it.
ANTJ-CLUB.
* Tn protf €f this ajfertiau, the reader
» referred to fcvtral recent in/lances of
leaders in the Democratic Societies being
candidates fir Cungrefs, £3V.
Fcr the Gazette t>f the United States.
Mr. Fenno,
EVERY j>«ruf«r of your Gazette
unutt be struck with surprise, nay, afto
ui/hment, when he beholds with what
depth of penetration '• A Citizen of
Philadelphia" comments, or, to use a
mcrr apt exprefiion, fatiricaJly criticise*
on a fpeach which was read, at a late
commei>:ement, by Mr. Swanwick.—
The fpeach, whether written by Mr.
S. or not, i« certainly rtoft floridly ridi--
cuIo'JS. The firil fentcnce from the
fe«xfaa»on it ulinoflr mcortiprtheiifible, %«» that the fsgnal given by the Jaco
nnd from lliat tie the kit fcAeute tixre WW ">e *attalion of the Marfeilleie is
j• i i . i i .. c me to overthrow the thione, and the
lis uttk penpicuity or elegance: but " ,r . ... . u , ~
® tvrannv, a«d which ends by demanding
v,-ho cannot t «.,fcow «it, gemui, a»u ■■ , he hjve „e e d of further succors,
every attendant requtfite in his immita- fp(JlJcj jp ta k, fay the Jacobus of Mar-1
ble commentator ! No envy, nojealou- fcilles.
fy difcetnible, nor biafled by no party j [The Realers notice is called in parti- I
[wejudice, be has given his ideas purely eti La r t<> the foil owing. J
for the emolument and recreation of said my comrade, that the fo
i.i , n., > r r ciety has conuitiited itieli the chief ot a
the public. Iho ioine lew partizans ,
, ', Mil-.- r formiuabJe power, which has an array at
jof a late ctfntelted elett.on were some- its commar J . since it has onlv t0 fpeakj
what subject toj.'i, yet this gentleman and battalions match against those whom
does not appear to have the hajl fymp- they consider as their enemies ; this focie
torn of that direful milady. So im- ty which had Robespierre for its chief,
partial, so jult, so intelligent a critic hertriot for General, aud a commune [of
will not fail to gain the mod general Paris J wi £ a tr f fur y at , its r
. ■ j t i , i , which could arnt the people of Paris a
appronation : and, as I nave ately been . , rr ' .. ~ ,
. r .r ' . ' 7 . cainftthe National representation. Alas/
inarmed, there is to be eftabhfhed (as th is foc% may yet command the forces
loon as time and circu-nltances will per 6f the affiliated societies. You lee how
mii ) in this city, a Critical Review, to pre (Ting the necessity of annihilating it,—
be similar I imagine to that which is at Already the society fends its afiaffins in
present carried on in London, 1 am ve- Groups, for the purpose of intimidating
ry solicitous to learn the real name of the citizen. » their menaces. On the
.k!»-,1™ ™v i i, n , „rx t. „,i . evening of the Decadi, Ithe tenth an-laft
this admirable chaiacter. It mult not . c , , s
. r , , | T day of the French weekl there were bri
be fi.ppoku, however, that I mean to gandsand abandoned,women the terrace
depreciate this sublime Quintilhan, A- of the nafional garden, they came in
riflotle, Long inns, or—l kiiow'tndecd troops armed with clubs, to fall on those
of no eijthet fufficiently expreflive—l who dared to speak against the society, and
only vvilh to intimate that with the upon the hawkers who dared to fell p: n.-
judgmerit, candor, & erudidition he pof- £ hletß w »"en a S ***•/' / he J*™
felfes, he might, could he so far conde- t "" fwCTa f nft
r . r , ,i •r ■ thele crimes with which they are charg
fcend, prove of the molt infinite utility cd they fcek tcrrorto be ,he order of the
as a direSor of f«> arduous but dejirable day ; but it is the terror of noiftumal aflaf
an undertaking. finations. During this day, they ipe con-
F. I. NT. I. S. tent to cause a few hawkers to be arrested,
Phils. Dec. ZX 1704. whom they wifti to deprive of the means
' ' of subsistence; for this class can i"ub
fift only by the liberty of the press ; if this
liberty were to be limited at the plcafure,
of that society, the enemy of all liberty
and which wilhes nothing but for itfelf
and friends, those good citizens would be
reduced to certain misery.*
It is then important that all good citi
zens ftiould know all the falfehood of the
allegations of this lociety, which would
rival the National Convention, and which
would ufurpthe sovereignty of the people.
I mufl tell them, " when citizens hare
named their representatives, thtfe are in
vested with full powers to make good laws
and a constitution, to produce their hap
piness, and secure the prosperity of the
republic. But since they bave been {trip
ped of these powers, they have seen a
corporation of men whom they have not
deputed, to whom they have entrufte dno
power, no commiflion, raising itfelf be
tween the people, and the National repre
sentation ; this corporation influencing
their deliberations, examiniug the laws,
discussing them before hand, opposing
them, or demanding the report when they
opposed a political body, which the nation 1
cannot , recognize. No, there is no citi
zen who did not understand, when he de
legated his authority, his portion of nation
al sovereignty, that his representatives ire
free, that they depend oil no man, on no
body of men. '
The 39th article of the Constitution,
declare, the legislative body to be one,
indivisible. Why do we find a society
which wishes so to identify itfelf with
the legislative body, so as to make it be
lieved, that the deltruftion of the soci
ety would dilTolve the National repre
sentation. It is because the society
wishes to revive the system of two hou
ses, which hat been proscribed by the
■general wilh, and tha Jacobin society
would make one of those houses ; it
wishes to be the mod poweiful and it
is become so ; it is so at this moment;
it has, in the view of the people, over
turned the constitution ; and such is its
art of fafcination that we hardly per
ceive the two Chambers which the peo
ple abhor ; and that it partake., as in
England, of the legislative power, but
in a way less reasonable and more dan
gerous. f
In England, it is the house of Com
mons vhere the people are represented,
which proposes and digest. the laws.
The house of Peers, whose members
rote for themselves, without ony dele
gation of authority from the people,
adopts or rejects the bill, proposed by
the house of Commons.
In France, oil the contrary, the so
' ciety of the Jacobins has constituted
<tfelr a house of peers. There the mem
bers keep their feats, as formerly in the
Parliament, without commiflion from
the people, upon the consent of the
other peers and by purchase. There
the members vote for themselves or for
the society, upon their own authority :
and this house of peers, Jelf-ereaied, not
elected, and where the nation is not
represented, has arrogated to itfelf, and
they are fuffered to atrogate to them
selves the fup&ion. of a house of Com
mons. This society proposes the de
crees, digests them, difcufles them and
causes them to be presented to the Na
tional Conveution, by those of its mem
ber. who will yield to the trouble of
•itting ia. both" houses, and who have
FROM FRANCE.
Tr..inflated for the Minerva.
The " Dyiiig pangs of the Jacobins;"
a fuppjrment t£the "Jacobins unmalked."
"Setaireeit un crime, quand parlerr
eft utile"
'Tis a crime to be silent, when to speak
is ufeful.
For many days prit I have been pun<£lu
al, in attending on the terrace of the nati
onal garde*, that I might find there the
man who promised to prove to me that
the Jacobins are the High Chamber of
France, and that the National Convention
was not opposed to them, but formed on
ly a House of Coram ns. It was not 'till
Primida, [the firft day cf the new French
week] that X found hun. Wellfaidl, as
we riic-t, have you yet seen our conven
tion printed ? Yes, answered he and lam
delighted with the effetf it has produced
on the public, that is among honest peo
ple, those who are fmcerely attached to
the Republic, and who are heartily and
warmly the friend* of the National Con
vention, as being the central point of uni
on for all good citizens. There is not
a brave Sans Culotte, not one honest man
who does not abhor that sacrilegious soci
ety ; and you need ha&e no doubt that the
few honest m. i who have joined their
meeting, will speedily retire from the
club. There will then remain in the soci
ety none but the managers, the fadious
;he intriguing demagogues, and such as
are paid for applauding them, But these
will not remain a long time ; for the so
ciety has no money ; Robespierre is no
more, and those who have taken his place
have not th* fame knack of plundering and
pillaging one man to enrich another, &you
may rely on it, that lately they have been
obliged to incur heavy expences to pay
the r retainers for their acclamations, to
fend abroad advocates in groups, in si* ort,
for the multitude of means those brave
people employ to m»iuld the public opini
mon, to gain the favor of so many good
citizens, who never had a wilh for the
good of their country, but for their own
perfonai benefit.
You are wrong said I, in supposing them
Ihort of money ; do you believe that those
of them who have had the management of
the monies of the Republic, will not fa
crifice one part of their dilapidations and
exactions to lave the other Be allured
they will neither spare money nor intrigue
to corrupt the public opinion, aad shelter
themselves from the vengeance of the
laws.
I could wifii, continued he, you had
been at their fittings on the 49th nit ; you
would have rejoiced in their confufion.—
The Jacobins unmajked ; but this did not
produce all the effedl they expetfed ; al
tho' they had advanced the moll impu
dent falfehood, in declaring that pamhlet
was distributed gratis ameng the people
whe refufed it. There area thoofand
hawkers who can atteftthe contrary.
I "What surprizes me, said Ito my com-
I panion, is, that there is not one of them
I who will undertake the defence of the
i iociety, when so many publications ap
pear against them.
How! replied he, you believe they
dare enter into a controversial difcuflion ?
No ; no ; they know too well the weak
nels of their cause—they know the patri
ot?, the members of the Convention, will
always have the advantage over them.
They a<fi with the utmost precaution
" They take important steps in silence."
They so prepared their measures 011 the
*7th July.
At prelent they perceive the public o
pinion to be againit the Society ; that is
with great displeasure we fee in the number
of its members, certain deputies who have
not the mofl unfuilied reputation ; they
afe reduced to thi neceflity of causing ad
dreflei to be written by the affilated socie
ties, which all complain that the patriots
are opprefled. The addrefles from Gre
noble and Salon*, afford them some con
solation thai which raises their hopes,
is from the<focirty from Marfcillci, which
*In Paris vnd in London New/pa
pers and pamphlets are fold mojily by
battlers.
f In France there is a Jlrong prejudice
again/} two haufes in the Legislature.
It revives the idea of a house cf peers.
Time will be required to cerreß these pre
judices.
the weaknefj to till ir the legiilative
body, the station only of ministerial or
gans of the society which supports
them by the warlike force of the tri
bunes and the mob.
There remains then the second
houie, called the National Convention ;
the only one established by the consti
tution; the only one where the people
can be represented by the men of their
own choice ; that which we have all
promised to live and to die in defence
of the legitimate rights which we have
confided to them; —there remains no
thing for this Convention but the li
berty of difeuffing the laws in the form
and adopting them as the society has
proposed them, with the applauses of
the tribunes filled by their direction, or
to reject them, at the risk of their re
putation, perhaps at the hazard of their
lives.
By what abuse of principles, has it
happened that our Natittßal Conventi
on, that, great sovereign legislative bo
dy, inverted with the whole national
power, and whose unity we would guar
antee with our oaths and our conltant
determination, fheuld be ft) degraded,
and rendered so subordinate, that in fa£t
its authority should bend under that of
a society, which would form a corpora
tion in the republic—a society in the
bosom of which have been generated
all the traitors, all the conspirators, all
the faithlefs agents, all the preverfe ma
gilhates ; for these were Jacobins, the
Dantons, the Chabots, the Chaumettes,
the Heberts, the Vincents, the Momo
ro'p, the Ronlins : these were jacobins,
the Robefpierreg, the St. Justs, the
Co'ithons j that Dumourier was a Ja
cobin, who alone, as the Society said,
was worth an army ; they were Jaco
bins who conspired against the National
Representation on the 27th July; who
united with the Commune composed of
Jacobins; and at the time when this
society announced that it had taken
important measures, prepared in silence ;
when it pursues the principles it profef
fes, and when it perceives that patriotic
writers drive to enlighten the people,
to invite them in the name of their
country to croud round the convention,
and make for them a rampart of their
bodies against the attempts of the soci
ety meditated ii> silence ; they dare to
calumniate the purest intentions ; they
dare avow their wiflirs to diflolve the
Convention and the Republic ; as if
all the French were not persuaded that
the Convention is the only power that
can save the Republic from the horrors
of anarchy which the society contrives
in silence; as if all the citizens were
not ready to shed their blood in sup
port of liberty.
Let us then warn the people to dis
trust a society, which they have not
founded, which takes measures in si
lence ; which maintains a correspond
ence in the departments, which has on
ly to Speak and an aimy marches at its
orders; a society in fine which seeks to
impiefs terror on the public by the most
dcteftable
Let us warn the people to rally round
the National Representative* ; tp offer
their person* as a rampart, as they did
on the 27th July; while the Jacobins
joined Robespierre and his accomplices,
and the traiterous commune of Paris.
Let us urge them to keep an eye 011
the tawny and strange figures, (alluding
to the battalion from Marseilles) which
swarm in Paris ; all the people with
Muttachios and clubs who lpread them
fclves among the crouds ; and that they
arrest and carry before the committee
of General Surety, those men who vi
lify the upright majority of the Nation
al Convention.
I left my companion, with an eager
desire to deliver this advice to the press,
but we piomifed each other to meet
again fpecdily.
Note. At the moment this paper
was going to press, we learnt that the
Jacobins andtheir hirelings had colledl
ed on the terrace near the National
palace, were endeavouring by their pro
vocations to cxcite a tumult among the
people. We hope the Convention will
yield to the wishes fully exprefled by
the citizens, who supported them on
the nightof the 27th July and not trnfl
at all to the purification of the so
ciety.
[Had the foregoing paper been
written in America, it could not have
been more conformable to the opinions
of intelligent Americans. The whole
foregoing description of the Jacobin
Clubs answers precisely to the ideas and
expe&ations of Americans, refpeflisg
their progrefsand pernicious influence.
The whole description is fupportcd by
indubitable fads, ar.*Jisone continued
comment on the reasoning of Federal
Americans, against the establishment
of fucb focietie»in this country.]
SITTING of the JACOBIN'S,
7th Vendcmaire. (Sept. 29.y
Audouin, read a long difcouHV A'
**
he said was an emanation from that of
I tine ; he predicted of it the fame f at ~
which had befallen those Which had nrl
ceeded it. He jollified the
from their calumnies. «• ] t ; g , )U y-.
it is openly," said Audouin, « t | lJt J'
attack the enemies of the p«ople, Ut
direiS pistols and daggers against them
in the dark." He allured the foc,cn
" Yes" cried the Orator " let Catiline
with his troop, let Pifittratus * with his
wounds given by himfelf" (l out j ap ,
plaufes) " come forward, they ftutf
meet the reward of all tyrants."—
Where is the vessel which after a long
storms and temptfts ? Where are the
sailors who hare not been roughly hand,
led by the winds and waves r The ves
sel is the Republic ; the sailors are th*
faithful defenders of the popular cause •
in the hope of some prey to devour,
ate the Scoundrels and Aristocrats
£ Applauded.]
It is to royalty, continued the Ora
tor, that they wifli insensibly to con
duit 11s, not openly, but by au Arifto
two houses cf Parliament in Ei.ghrd ;
they wilh to give to that million u s tirp
fathers of the people, whole iubitance
they would devour- The fafticn, fays
he, demands the reign of honest men,
but we are not agreed as to the accepta
tion of this weird ; according to us, Int.
who devote their faculties, their persons,
and their lives to the defenfc of the Re
public : according to them, honest men,
good table, and have a great deal of mo.
stated by their fire fide, with their toei
well warmed all winter, have not gore a
The Oratoi, after having invited ihe
society to anlwer all calumuies, by re
dering the people happy, and deiiroy.
fng great fortunes and misery, which s\-
discourse :—"And thee, oh Paris! Ci
ty celebrated in the annals of the Revo
lution, know that thou art like a colon)
in a defart Island, which have burnt the
tefTels they came in, and wit!) whom
their remains no hopes of return.—Re
member the horrible imprecation of IL
nard ; know that it yet exitls in 'he
hearts of thy numerous enemies, that
it would take effect, that thou would"ft
rc-eftablifl.ment of Royalty, or ever, of
and ' Arillocratic Republic, and that
thou canit exist only under the govern
ment of a Republic, one, ir.divilible
and democratic."
* Ife. lit Orator Stei butt
;ta tiouk the acejunV of isa *Htm&
10 qfjfitm' Tafrtnt.. '/ , ?
COMMUNE AFFRNCHIE,
( Ci-devant Lyons.)
The Representatives of the People
now in this city, have denounced, in a
proclamatio, the following maxims,
which were lately declared to be incon
teftible principles by the popular focietf
of this place.
" The sovereignty resides immediate
ly in the Popular Societies. The pub
lic opinion is drawn from th«-wi!lof each
Popular Society."
We did not expect their pretensions
would go quite so high as this, po
these things proceed from the whim,
and fi.lly of the societies ? It is better
to think so, than to imagine that thff
aim at a domination, a hundred times
more abominable and abfuid, lbs" >• 8
ever meditated by the ambitious diViplts
of Loyala, (the Jesuits.)
Notwithstanding the repreientatK ' <
of every rational being in tie society,
J the printing and porting up the finicking
dogma, was ordered and executed.—
But the Representatives Charl er, rr.d
Pocholle, have entirely tranquiiiled our
minds. They have in theii exc ■ t
proclamation, declared the of
the papular Societies to be deftri stive
of all social order, and hav« uncovered
the snare, laid by anarci i-f ami villainy.
They have also adjourned.iHe 6tt>ng»
of the society, for the prcfrnt, and
sent the orator, who firft bioacKed tf>c
horrid dodtrine in queflior., under gJ°'
and sure guard, to the Cotn&'''-' c
General Welfare.
BARALY.
Btll VKMHUHUti-
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