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u 8*' tbit J '£,■/• 't ttnfj ibee, tbit ifter the tt'jy
'x'.tJtltt J 4 •* 'ftjiit . » v»yjktp l tbs bW r‘f my
»- , .i **
pA(jI, dared to he lingular. Though be
was brt/ugtit up at the tec. of Gamaliel, ard
lea JiCu ill all tbe wifdotp of the age in which
fcj lived, yet the noolc Iimpiicity ot iliegol
pr! wa< It * darling ihim*. In the ruoft try*
tituations, he would maintain his integri
ty ; and when brought before king? & prin
ce*, tie did uot hcfitate to preach Ohrid, as
* the power of God. and the wiicom of God.
to thole that be ieve.** 1 he enemies of his
religion railed it heiefy, but this did not in
timidate the b ctTcd Apoft’e. He had chofi-u
God for hi* pouiuu, and tefoluiely endured
cruel mucking* a:.d fcouigtugs rather than re
nounce Cbrilt. But what is this to me ? fays
theChriftian of the prelent day. It is this to
thee, Thefe things were written for the ad
monition of thofe upon whom the cods of the
world are come. Religion is the fame now it
ever was. Had it then enemies ? So it has
now. Were the name* of the difctples ra!i
out a* evil / Yiiey are equally fo at this day-,
Was“ this feci every where fpoken ngainft ?’•
So i; is now. And later chriltia is fuller per
meation in common with the fir ft difciples.
Bat the weapons of the affaiiant* are now of
another kiud. la former days, prifom and
martyrdom were the reward of believers. But
now, the firft object of the infidel is to let re* j
ligion in a ridiculous point of view. Perhaps
tome old orthodox miniiter is feledted for an
example and reprelentative of the whole. He
will be cahed odd, and enthufiaftic, He will
be represented as wearing leather breeckes, &
a nafly cafibc , as having his religion only in
his wig ; as being a dear lover of roaft beef
aad claret, &.c dec &c. The tables will then
be turned, and you Will fee an advocate for
vice. Is one aceuftd of being an extravagant
fpendthrift ? “ But he is generous,” fay» the
advocate, “ and has a noble foul.” Is a man
a vile feducer, or a common debauchee ? “ But
be has lluning talents,” fays the advocate.—
Thus no vice can be mentioned, but an ex
cuse is always at hand Thus evil is called
good, and good evil. Light is put for dark
rufs, and darkuefs for light. It is then the
i dmy of chiiftians to contend for the faith*
Ai? tough the arrows of the aftuilaatt fliould
light upon u*, an 1 although pretended friends
fhould hiut that we carry matters too far, or
caution us again ft being * over much righ
teous;' yet, itrive “ by a patient continuance
in well doing, to put to fileaee the ignorance
°f fojlitli ttieti.*’
* m..._"ig
€duun!:u:ca!idn&
Elefl,rs of M *lm ! I
1 Fin hour i» faft approaching, when you
will LecaJ'ed j;x>tt so {elect frcm *mou r y ur- ,
li’lre,, your Chief T/ vcs. 1: ; come*
you toweigh well ti e t' c\ion •. a a j a out
to make. Y.ur hap: ait- v k honor. vuur j
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itidepmden«e, d**pe.i-t i;t ; y our fuflre^ey. j
lhe voice of your father- Uuo.i cties to you ,
ffom the grou.id, ** my to: . fcoru to be Haves’
— la vain did we r*.*fcue von from the tvran*
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ny of biiuiu,-if y.hi wiauMy re pole your
fe!ves in the lap of die delpotiiVn c»f Fra ice.
Vou are uot huiply called ipon to decide .
whether Mr. Gjre, or (Jerry, Ilia!! be your
Govern.,r; but, whether you will fecure the
f^ir fabric of American Indtpendeuceioyour
fdfej, or conftgn it to Bonaparte. Your can
tiiiafe. are before you. You hive given .hem
one yetr*i trial ; and, in de£au«.e of the opp>
« <*u cf the enemies a ur couftitution, they
h*ve acted Oianlttlly( Equally regardlei* of
tue prade of their political friends, and the
cenfure of their po.itical enemies, they have
purtusd that iirm, dignified, and pa: rioiic
cutirfe, which 1ms di veiled democracy of ail
her weapons, except the never ceating oue— i
FALSEHOOD. Let the Truth be (poken,and
,J ^urHs forth in acclamation* of the praiieaof
Goxx and Co»»
Do you regard your religious mft'tuttons,
0r your civil rights ? Come forward, then,
*ad put raeu of religion and patriotifm in of*
*» e. Do you will* to avoid the voraciou- jaw,
French i'riendtlup ? EledlGore 5t Cobb,
And what is this French friendship ? The an
^wer is obvious. Look to the piams of Egypt
^nd Auftria, and you behold it running in co*
^ious ftreanis of humau blood. Look to the
waters of the Danube, and you behold them
tinged with the crimfon hue of French friend
^•p. Look to Spain, aud yon perceive French
Amity dctolating and dcflroying that once
Eappy auj opulent country. Turn to the o
cean» and it appears in the hideous glare of a
^nflagratiou. Our (hips, cur merchaudizci
*nd our feamea, con Hi taring the fuel. Re
view thefe Icenes, and fay, my fellow citi'scas,
ff you covet the friendship ot France Alrea
dy I hear you fay, No; give u«death, in pre
sence to fubmifliua to Fiance. Then txA
G«re & C.bb, the heroes of our Revolution,
the fupporters of our Conftitution, the men of
American principle#. And rtjevft Ger,yy the
nun inactive in the revolution, the op pole r
(if our conftitution, toe enemy of H.mcock,
t’ie advocate of French meafures, and French
mi n. *
A* for Mr. Gray, he'has deceived you once
•— let him never deceive you again, ^fou
have Cried the rich merchant, and found him
P or in iuiormation, in talents, and in honefty.
i herefore coufign him to that poft, tor winch
a.uue he is qualified—a private Jiution.
Ft lion’ Citizenif
Vu have been told much about the ofp*fi
t,H> °f our ftate, to our national government
| No other oppofttiunexifts, than this—that our
Hate government is determined not to facrtfice
our country to the ambition of Bouaparte.
The Jibeui-s of America will he iudeed of
fli.jit du -ation, if thofe, whom wefelect as the
guardian* of our couftitutiou, are to be deter
red rr*m tounding the alarm, when dangers
app oach, by every fvcopiuntic demagogue,
tliat ni?y pleafe to raife his clamour against
them., it is high time, my fellow ci1 rzeus,that
our ftate iegiflature lhould take a bold and de
cided ftaud, and convince u« of our critical fit
uariun. We have been told, by the editor cf
a reaiocrahc paper, w ho, if not in the pay, is
high in the favor of our rulers at Waihington}
that “ a gangrene has leized the national bo
dy politic that “ the firft fource of all our
troubles is an ele&.vc prcfilency and that ** to
make our government effectual, and refpedta*
hie, and continue for ages to come, .negreat tfJ*
e/mlHiy* it is cecefTary to have an
heie it.ffy rtjiJent General and Commander in
at the clofe of the prefent adminiftra*
tiou. What ! «ild our fathers expofe their
lives, to ehabiifh our republican inftitutions*
and ihali the Freuch party demolifh them, &
erect a Monarchy upon their ruins ? You
will, I truft, “ frown indignantly" upon every
attempt to overturn our republican form of
government. Already, my countrymen, doe*
the oilspring of the Bonaparte family begin to
be hailed, by the French party at Wafhiug
ton, as tha JfC;ng cf Amends. And Duane, a
commanding officer in our army, has openly
and boldly pubhfhed his reafons for an alii- |
acce with France, Paufe, theu, upon the day i
of election, before you caft your vote, and re- j
fledt upon the important confiderations here j
preiemed to your view. Compare them with 1
your own obiervations, and you will be con
vinced of their ieally exifting.
I he ideas I prefent to you are not the
phantom of a diflurbed imagination, or the !
falle creations of a mind infuriated by pary j
n.adue:» No, they are awful realities; and j
u.jleii we rapidly withdraw curie!ves from
the hands of Napoleon, we Ihull be it: the ;
fame condition with Spain.
l he Jemocranc party bare managed the
gove. ament of Jvl iliac hufetts for two years ; !
«u i what was the confequence ? Why, a '
Court of Seflious was efubhlhed, confiding of
at lead four or five ignorant men in every I
couu.y, to..illy unqualified for their Uations,
and lj.qii.rted at au enormous expeafe, A
ho'; ot k yjb l.au-)00s were circulated thro
the count:y, to aid as county attorneys, while
nun i f t*. eats and iega! information were
ncgfeeleJ I lie I'realury was plundered of
S«veii:v 1 huufaiul Djl'urs—I will not fay by
• lie government itfelf \ but by a man, whom
they appointed :o o! ice, two years in fuccef*
mm,a;u. with whofe character ihey wrcre per
fevVy iCijUH.urd. Such were the patriotic
icti of *he rt. ;u of Democracy in this State.
Aud now, my fellow citizens, let me en
treat y u, neve" to fuller men to pofiefs your
.otwkieory who are fecrerly endeavoring to
lap the ve*y foundation of our confutation, St
to tear down the fair fabric of Rcpubiicanifm
Commit the fafe keeping of the honor and in.
dependence of the nation to tbofe, who prize
liberty, dearer than fife. A+ave all, Freemen
of Maflachufetts, let me conjure you, (whiie
yet you have the power) to fave yourfe'vws
from the iron defpotiim of France. To bau
ith from your councils and your confidence,
the bafe hirelings and tools of its tyrant.
Come for:h, then, all ye Freemen, and lup
pori with ycur influence, aud votes,
Chriiiopher Gore
and
David Cobb.
Thefe wire your friends ia the “ times that
tried nien‘« fouls,” and are now your friends,
ant. the ft tend* of your country.
ADMONITION.
No pe^fon, however high his expectations
| of honor and emoluments from the prefent
reigning party in this country,r*a fo ftifle the
; diciares of confcience and experience, a* to
believe thai the opinions and the actions of
1 the jacobin party tend to the profperity of
our country. If there is any one fo abje&, fo
vile, as to believe that our prefent foliation is
, an enviable (me, and that we can have no bet
ter ; to him we nave nothing iofay. We leave
Liu*iogn>vC i.i ih*„ da.kueit wL.ck lie-a*
efcape from. It the r ;»n an l its rulers are
involved in the hiaie r a. c ,ui. tt, there is no
hope, but th ‘ . c i. ii dawn wnl find us in
the fangs of hi:, it on
Poril.ii.d Tow n Meeting.
On Mondu> i.ist, the a;; ual Meeting
was holdcti for the Cftoice of Town Of
ficers : i he met. ting v, us not a full one :
1 he majority was as usual at such
1 meetings. i he votes Stood as 313 to
185. aid the federal Officers of the
last year were re-chosen—the same af
terwards declined, among those re-cho
sui are Matthew Con it, Esq. Mr.
Robert Boyd, and Capt Cotton B.
Brooks. 1 his is a pretty decisive
proof that tiie *Federalists of Portland
don’t consider those gentlemen as Demo
crats and jifiostates. The Demos vot
ed for Mr. Cobb and Mr. Boyd to gi\e
currency to their Ticket, and to hel/i a
long the lie which has been circulated
about them as to the desertion of their
j principles. T he trick is easily under
stood, and will pass abroad for just as
muca as it is worth.
Non-11itcrcourse Lav'.
Congress during the whole of the present
session, have done nothing but play and tri
1 He with ihe feelings and the wishes, the hopes
! and the fears of the people ; whose interests
\ appear to have been wholly neglected. A
nudst the crooked and selfish measures that
| diey have from day to day adopted, to gull
l their constituents, and preserve their own
1 popularity. Soon after Congress met in the
month of November last, Mr. Gallatin made
1 hjs report, in which, among other things,
he Plainly says the Nun-Intercourse Law
was useless in its operation, as it could nev
er be faithfully executed ; and he by his o
pinion condemned the measure as unwise,
Lver since that Report, it has been the opin
ion of every one, that the law was childish
nd nonsensical ; our administration knew
this ; and ’ti3 openly said by both parties in
Congress. Why then has it not been re
pealed ? W by it- the law continued in force
to hamper and perplex the merchants ? to
derange their [duns and destroy their hopes ?
Several months have our wise Rulers had
'he subject before them—and when our
M e3 were * dsed by the news from Wash
in:i( ' , ’bat the Law was immediately to be
rei ale'! tr t o Senate had passed the
L w ; ‘be ,e pes were blasted—the liouse
•nuuves refused to agree with
the nate.and ’tis understood that Congress
I.ave given up ah idea of doing any thing
further >n the subject. 'The law will not be
rtfK tled Is it possible to feel respect for
u- Kuhns, vvfvn they refuse to repeal a
! w -4 distress ug to our commerce, when
they openly acknowledge that the law if, j
{s pendcioua ? “ Woe unto that
P« i-h* whose Prince is a child.” Our Ru
ieri are a;-hi'no I f their own proceedings.
' ‘he Embargo as long as the peo
ole v Quid submit to such folly and oppres
iron : t ;yy fou d it injured no power on
e rih oursf lieu Then they repealed
’hat, ua i substituted the Non-Intercourse,
l hat is found to be exactly as foolish aiul
restrictive as if*e other—It injures ourselves
o'.Iv : sud yet our Rulers are adiamcd to re
I .1 'r* (>ecause they are afraid it will ap
pear to be an acknowledgment to the world
ot it.e 4%t..'rincss ot their heads as well as the
impurity of their hearts. They have not
sense, integrity and independence enough io do
i ight : and having done wrong—committed
, the most fatal mistakes and adopted the
most destructive measures they have not
candor enough to retrace their steps and
tell the nation the truth with frankness and
honesty. Shame ! We should never forgive
I ti»is meatiness in an individual, and why
should the case be altered, because hun
dred', are engaged in the same course ot
delusion—the same system of ruinous ex
penmeni aiul obstinate perseverance, m
spite of conviction ? DAVID.
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f
\\ liO shall be Governor ?
Fellow-Ci 11ZENS,
VOU are about to exercise one of
l the most important rights, that of elec
ting your Chief Magistrates.
It is not my intention to fatigue you
; with a long dissertation upon the various
I subjects which daily receive the notice
I of abler pens, but 1 ask your attention
to a few remarks which will be found
strictly correct. Shall we elect for
Governor, CHRISTOPHER GORE
or Ethridge Gerry. I take K to be a
good and a lair rule, to employ in any
business, public or private, a man who
has been tried and found capable and
faithful, in preference to one who hasJ
not been tried in that particular station |
or business. In ordinary times, tins !
principle, aione, would decide the ques
tion in favor of Gov. GORE, for we j
all remember that it was the practice ui :
the people of rvluss11C4.ua: its heretulorc
to re-elect their trieu u..d faithful Gov
I ernors. WiuieSfc* Hum r ai,d *
Strong. In times when flrcn's mi ids
were not heated by part y spit it
C1IR10 P .1E R G01 • m* v* ouIci t‘a
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the mar. whom all true Republicans
would support. They would respect
and esteem him for his integrity, his
talents and his patriotism ; but the de
mons ot party have instigated the dem
agogues ot faction to misrepresent, &
too many will be deceived and mislead,
licit teilow citizens, we have no ordina
ry duty to perform. Inquire, reflect
and decide for yourselves—See if you
can select a man who combines more
qualities desirable for a Governor,
than he who has presided with so much
mildness, dignity and fidelity for the
last year. Need I ask you to compare
his administration with that of the Lieut.
Goveinor Lincoln, the democratic can
didate of the last year. A man who had
the hardihood to denounce the people
for assembling in a peaceable and order
ly manner, for the purpose of petition
ing lor a redress of grievances. By
this and such like conduct, the leaders
of the democratic party date not again
offer him as a candidate for the votes of
tree men. Hence the Jurce of his blind
ness has been got up by way of resigna
tion. These men have selected Mr.
Gerry for- the demo candidate the pre
sent year. This man’s known oppo
sition to the federal constitution and at
tachment to France, and the policy of
Bonaparte is proverbial. But these
leaders of the democratic furty know
that Mr. Gerry is old and in his dotage,
and that he will easily become a willing
tool in their hands to enable them to
lord it over the people and enable them
to obtain power and office which is the
object of all their exertions.
A Soldier of *7§.
The Trade of Maine.
Fellow-Citizens,
In calling your attention to the ap
proaching election, and requesting you
to support the federal candidates,it isnot
because we are contending lor men, but
it is to measure* we look. For one mo
ment take into your view the situation of
Maine—examine its natural and local
advantages. Call to mind the prosper
ity you enjoyed, when your general
government was administered by feder
al men, and compare it with what you
have experienced under the administra
tion of democratic rulers. When Fed
eralists were in power, your lumber,
your fish, and eveiy article of produce
commanded a high price, and ready
market. During the existence of the
Embargo, you were compelled to sell
all these articles at less than one half
the price you might have obtained, had
not ruinous measures been resorted to.
'Hie embarrassments of the embargo
times are still fresh in your recollection.
Your sulFerings are also fresh in your
recollection. You know that Gerry,
Gray, King and then* associates did ev
ery thing in their power to prolong the
Embargo and all the sufferings and pri
vations you experienced under it. The
consequence would have been, not only
the produce, but even your farms would
have been sold under the hammer. The
mechanic would have been destitute of
employment and most of the merchants
and traders would have been reduced
to bankruptcy and poverty. If this is
a desirable state of things, go vote lor
Gerry, Gray, King and those men who
made a Skinner treasurer, who plunder
ed your treasury of ;70,000 dollars.
Go vote for such men who support
those men in Congress, who puss non
intercourse laws, which prohibits the
citizens ot Maine from sending their
timber to England, which would now
sell for one dollar per loot, and other
articles in like proportion. But when
you are called upon for the payment of
your debts and taxes, do not complain.
\ou will be the voluntary instruments
of your own destruction, in a political
sense, you will be self-murderers.
A LUMBER MAX.
WAR. |
If the queftion could be taken in
New-England whether we ought to
go to war with Grear-Britain, nine
tenths of the people would lift up
their voices againit it, as the greatelt1
judgment which could befal us.
And yet bis one of the molt ardous
undertakings toconvn.cc thofe who
fuoport the federal adminiflration,
that they ate quejhonably and art dink
bringing thot very judgment upon
our country. — They areexeniog eve
ry faculty to bolder up our rulers at
Wainington, by juitiiying ail they do,
however Ja/ky oi Jiertous or mifchiev-\
ous i even wtale ihoL v.-rv rulers are
. .J
anxiouily trying every project to
bring on a war with England. The
people in general believe they are
a£ting for the odt ; but why will
they cling to an adminiftration, who,
by its open hodility and hatred to
wards England and unbounded fer
vility to France, are determined to
plunge us into ail the horrors of war.
—Nay, while Giles the head-ftrong
leader of democracy at Walhington
openly declares that War is his ob»
h
That the democratic party in their thirft
for power, ftiou'd milreprefent the deed*, and
pervert the lent intents or the federalifta, is not
greatly furpriting. But that the Dame of
Rf<iJbi*gtoa Ihould be camtnniaed,by coupling
it with Democracy, is at leaf! evidence that
the caufe is defperate in the extreme No per
fon acquainted with the life of Walliington, or
at all convcriant in the affairs of our country,
can give the leafl credibility to this frequent
ly repeated aflertion But to thofe who wiih
to gain intluence to their party, by repiefeut
ing that Walliington was a frteud to iacobni
ifm, we will realba fairly from truth and ex
perience. Is it not a facl, that ftore and af
ter the arrival of Genet, which was the btrth
of the long conceived monfter Demur acy, that
Walliington did refill, with bts whole ability,
the progrefs and growth of that inunUrous
production i if evidence of this is required,
look at his letter to F «*ick Henry, Elq and
other of his confidential correfpondence, whe. e
the dangers of this French Republicauifm is
portrayed and deprecated. In one letter, he
fays, that ** the holtiie attitude France has af.
fumed, mull be excluftvely aferibed to the
conduct of thofe Americans, who uniformly
advocate all the pretentions of France.” In
: another letter to the Secretary of State, when
[ he was retiring from office, he denounces a t
the letters as ' lpurious,’ wkich were faid to
be written by him, and iu wh>ch he isrepro
fented as unfriendly to the Revolution ; and
other democratic fabrications, which have
been the only grounds on which he is (aid to
be a friend to jacobinifm. In this letter he
i fry*.
j M The period when thefe forged letters were
, firft primed will be recolie&ed, and what
were the intentions they were intended to
produce on t he public mind. Jt was then fup
pofed to be of fome confequence, to ftrike at
the integrity of the motives of the Command
er in Chief, and to paint his inclinations a# a:
variance with his profeflion* and his duty —
Another crilis in the adai-s of America having
occurred, the fame weapon has been re fort ed
to, to wound my chara&er, and deceive th«
people.”
The Indian, when affronted, threatens to
' burn um houfe,’ ‘ burn uni barn.’ The Rev.
Mr Allen, editor of that facrilegicr.s thing,
the Pittsfield Sun, does more—he actually di4
(burn urn’ man, 1 bum um’boots.
Query—How many odd boots will it take
to make two pair i As this i« a deep mttupby
ft al queition, * Cato,* in the Argus, is detired
to throw light on the fuhjedt
A Story in Circulation.
We ask for information, and vie
hope our democratic friends will an
fwer us in die fpirit of candor, with
which it is advanced. Did Napole
on Bonaparte fay to a foreign minis
ter abroad, “ that Mr. biathlon ojjjs
his Vice*Roy, and that he ( Bon p irte )
should take care of the United State* ?'*
j ^ [Bof Uu.;
2DJCD*
In Standifli, Mr. Robert M Donald, aged
6(5. He was confined to Ins hou.e about ti»
1 week, with a dropsical com plant, which ha
1 bore with chriflian fortitude; rctignmg hit
foul up into the hands of the Saviour #tf tu
ner*. He lias left three funs and two daugh
ters to regret the tola of a kind and iudu>geuc
parent.
| In Falmouth, Mr. Richard Colley, mer.
aged Si.
In Falmouth, 17th infh Mr Simon Davit,
in the 4oth year of his age Mr Davis o. ig
inated at fast hi. credible inttinner ot>
; ferves, that, liotn early life, he was a yomh
of the purefl morals VVhen about the agt cf
; SO, he proletL-d to he called by the fpocial
grace of God, into the kingdom ot his dear
Son. During hi* renuence at Falmouth, he
walked worthy of hu calling. He had the
caufe of religion at heart, and eaerred himlelf
much, to promote the welfare of Tiion I a
bore his lalt iickneis with intire ; alienee. He
encountered death wnh an unlltakeu and tri
umphant hope t»: Heaven’» enjoyment. He
has left undoubted evidence, that he now
fits with Chrifl on the throne of hi* giory.—
He bore the fruits which diftinguiihed htm a
friend of the kedeemtr. He was meek iu
his Jifpoliuon. He w *s obliging to his neigh
bors, kind to the needy He commanded the
high efteem of ail who knew him M Wheu
the ear heard him, it bielled him, and wheu
the eye hw htra it g..ve witnelt to him ; be
caufe he delivered the poor that cried, and
tathcricG, and him that had none io he p him.
Fa was pk.iiant in lus family ; aud, itiougn
i idulgenlto hu chiLuer., yet, in hi* rcligon*
diiciplme, rigui oc Pv ftrkb The woman suo
ha* Ml iuen a htnbaad, has real caute to
mourn. Her greatefl earthly friend is no
mire. The Lord l»e u.-'o her au cveruii.uv
light; her Goa be her g ry.