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much gratitude for its deceased defender, and patriotic ruler, as a king did for his horse ? as the Athenians did for the man they had previously murdered ? as the citizens of Rome did for their virtuous ancestors ? &c. &c. &c. &c.! Forbid it justice, forbid it honour, forbid it generosity. I am not recommending you to flatter pompous greatness ; far be it from me: my motto is, to

“ Bow to no patron's insolence, rely
On no frail hopes; in freedom live and die."

“But what I recommend, is consistent with honour, honesty, and even utility; for had we taken the sage counsel of Washington, 30 millions of dollars would have been saved to the nation, which has been recently confiscated, by the despotic belligerents of Europe; the republic would not have been on the brink of dis-union; and counts, and dukes, and earls, and lords, and the Lord knows what, would not have

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laughed at our moderation and patience, but what they call the imbecility of our goyernment; and one of them, (I mean lord Milton) would not have said, with a supercilious exultation, in the British parliament, “ The experiment of a republican government has failed in America.” Let

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intelligent man read Mr. Erskine, the late British minister's letters, and at the same time view our commerce shackled on the ocean, and our character branded with infamy in Europe, and say whether we have not lost much, by neglecting the sage counsel of Washington.

" For my own part, I am persuaded that our best policy, is to put no confidence in the professions of friendship, made by the imperial and royal brigands of Europe. And if we had as much sense as a lamb, we would not do it. For we most assuredly stand in the same relation to them, as a lamb does to a hungry lion. The fable of the wolf and the lamb drinking at the same

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of a simil. itude, and demonstrate the danger, as well as the degradation of listening to the treacherous overtures, of either royal or imperial despots. Had the people of America, (the only free people in the world) by their industry and enterprise, endeavoured for five years past, to make themselves independent of the despots and slaves of Europe, they would not find themselves in the unpleasant dilemma, and degraded state in which they unquestionably are ; and every patriot who feels for the honour of human nature, and the respectability of our sad and solitary republic, must hang his head to find himself a republican; especially when he feels, as well as sees, the most unparalleled injury, added to the most unprecedented insolence, all heaped upon the government of his choice.

“ Finally, every man with a grain of common sense in his head, or candour in his heart, must acknowledge, that if the despotism, monarchies, and aristocracies of Europe do not destroy our republic, it will be for want of power, and not the want of inclination, for they most assuredly hate

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“ The magnificent image in the fountain at the centre square, is a comment that consolidates my animadversions. Had Col.

. B*** succèeded in his late attempt to sever the union, overturn the republic, and erect a military despotism on its ruins, and died when he had accomplished his deleterious plans, no doubt his partizans and parasites would have erected, in the place of that image, a statue to his memory; and in New York, the pedestal on which king George II. was exhibited, in magnificent sculpture, but from which he was displaced at the revolution, would have been filled with the statue of the disorganizing and demoralizing A**** B***. Had the citizens of New York a spark of honour, or a spark of gratitude, they would

blush when they behold the vacant pedestal of George II. and contrast the gratitude of their fathers, manifested to a royal knave, with their own ingratitude to a republican conqueror, who proved a friend, a father, and a brother to them.

“For them long sleepless nights in arms he stood, And spent laborious days in dust and blood."

“A volume might be written on this subject, but my limits will not permit me to enlarge ; we will therefore conclude this address, by hinting the plan for accomplishing this noble and national object. Were a few wealthy and patriotic individ. uals, who feel for the honour of their country, to associate and erect the statue at their own expence, their names and liberality should be engraven on one side of the pedestal. The statue to be placed in front of the state-house, representing General Washington on horseback, as large as life; embellished with sculpture, emblematical

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