National Gazette

The National Gazette was a biweekly newspaper in the early years of the United States. She appeared from October 31 1791 to October 23, 1793 in Philadelphia. It was published by the poet Philip Freneau.

The National Gazette was at the instigation of the opinion leaders of the Anti- Federalists, especially James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, were created by Alexander Hamilton, to defy the Gazette of the United States, the journalistic mouthpiece of the Federalist Party.

Since Jefferson until 1793 held the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in George Washington's cabinet, the paradoxical situation revealed that the National Gazette was actually worn as an opposition paper significantly from a leading member of the government. The fact that Jefferson Freneau had given in 1791 shortly before the establishment of the sheet a lucrative post as a translator at the Foreign Ministry, was criticized by their Federalist opponents as nepotism.

Freneaus National Gazette profiled in a short time with sharp attacks on Washington's leadership and in particular Hamilton's financial policy, which they called "numerous evils ... pregnant with every mischief" described about 1792. A celebration of George Washington's 61st birthday titled the sheet as a harbinger of monarchist airs.

In October 1793 the paper ceased to appear. Possible reasons for the rather abrupt end of Jefferson's impending resignation from the Cabinet, but also a decrease in the number of subscribers are called.