Portland gazette, and Maine advertiser — Portland, Me., 1810-02-26 00:00:00, page 2

jncctretin^ political fEiecrttanr.
S' , m tie Prfitictl Senifier,
|jT IP there He one iiorelt citizen, who <}uef
lion* the deception* ?hat have been pra^tf
cd upon the people of the United State*, ‘et
him attentively compare the Hated in
the following commuun atiou, aud all his
doubt* oil'd ceafe.
The People Quizzed^ by Political
Qizzers!
If ever there was a period in the
annals cf any nation, id which rhe
people were thoroughly quizzed by
their r- c> r, fuch is new the con
dition cl cur o rn country. We read
of rhe golden, the filver, the brazen,
and the iron ages ; but, with us the
prefent may, with great propriety,
be denominated the quizzing age.
If the affairs of the Union, and
of the individual Stares were con
du£led by rren of viriue and abili
ties * if the ration were profperous
- its peace a ;d independence fccu
red, under the guidance of faithful
c unfellors and wife ftatefinen—and
the people hy fuch means rendered 1
contented and iiappy then, indeed, a
it tie innocent quizzing on the part of
our rulers, might not be amifs—it
could, af lead, do no harm. But, in
awjul times, under mod alarming cir
cumftances—and while the citizens
of the U. States have good caufe to
tc under very feriMS apprehenfions,
not oniv for their private welfare
but for the public fafety — there is
fo.ncthing too much like infult to
the it'iderftanding of the American
people in the manner of their being
! o ^t^* I
J' eperson quizzed the people, by
firft gravely telling them—“ Ure are
all republicans•—we arc ad federalids;
we have gained little, if we counte
nance a political intolerance y as def
pctic as wicked, and capable of bitter
and bloody per [editions We are
“ brethren of the fame principle'—
and, •« every difference of opinion is
not a difference of principle —And
immediately after this hyprocrirical
fling, by turning men out of office
becaufe rhey were “ federalifta’
and becaufe they differed in 44 opinion”
from hi; 44 re publican?”
He quizzed the nation, when he
fupporttd in his book (his Notes on
Virginia) an independent judiciary—
the trial by jury—and the iacredneis
of the habeas corpus ; arid after
wards, in his adnnnijlration of the go
vernment. when he endeavoured to
proltrate ail of them.
He quizzed the nation, when he
reprobared (in the fame book) domef
tic manufactures—the introduction
of myriads or foreigners into our
country, printing out the dangers to
be apprehended from them, when
transformed into nominal citizens —
and the ketping up handing armies ;
—and, when he afterwards, particu
larly advocated the expediency of all
of them.
He quizzed the nation, when he
fhed crocodile tears at the tomb of
Washington ; while he fenght out,
Hi public Uations, the enemies of
that illuftricus patriot—& employed,
rewarded, and calefied the mult bafe,
the rr. 'it malignant of h’S reviicrs.
He quizzed the Nation, when, as
lecreriry of Hate, he fcouted the
principle oi free flips mating free
g' l: ; and when, as prefident, he
ailVctcd to maintain that principle;
— With about as much fincerity, too,
as 'htNAPi te, wr.cn he makes one
of his tosls, ChamPAGnt, write about
«« the liberty ol the leas while his
piratical cruifers are burning our Jhips
an l fen fig t nir crews to French dun
peons—in conformity to the doctrines
of another ot his minions—Fzuni%
the compiler of his genuine maritime
code !
lie quizzed the Nation, when he
returned, u.inti *ed — and without
e-en deigning t'j confult his confiifu
tiorta! adviferss the fenate —the treaty
of amity and commerce with Great
Britain, made by miniltersof his own
appciutnrv nt, duly authorized to
make fuch a treaty ; thertby attemp
ting top cp.irjthe way for drawing
us into “ entangling alliance" with
defeotic France and her miferabie
v^Iais.
^rle quizzel the nation, t>v tc’hng
ab ut “economy"—an “ overd >w
iii:: ircnfury ’ — and the profpeft of a
reef- “ txth'di »n of the public
debt yet prcfufely expending
the ioiul revenues—cxha'jfting
the treafury—and thus obliging h»s
i rc-dlor to have recourle to bor
i^enfome loans, in cider to repIcuiUj
[ir, even fufi>Vnt to maintain our
[peace etlablifhn ent.
He quizzed the nation by his filly
embargo, and other rclirid ions upoH
commerce—wholly inefficient, as to <
: the purpofe fcr which they were de
li gned, but ruinous to the bell inter
eils of our own country ; and fuch
was his eagernefs to render this quiz
effc&ual, in hopes of thereby aiding
Bonaparte, that he was perfectly
willing to ddlroy commerce wholly ;
although he well knew’, that without
foreign trade, the farmer and me
chanic, as well as the merchant,
mull (bon he impoverifbed—and
alf>, that while cut off from fuch
trade, we could have no revenue,
without having recourfe to dir eft tax
at ion. He could not but have been
aware of Inch confequences ; be
cause it is fcarcely to be prefumed
that fo great a phtkfopher, as Thom
as jEFFERS0N,had never read ^Esop’s
Fable of the blockhead who killed
his goofe, which daily laid him a gol
den egg.
He qizzed a large portion of the
American people, by his numerous
artifices to inflame their refentments
agamil Great Britain, the only pow
zx that, in the event of hoftilities,
:ould greatly injure us—and whofe
government is difpofed to make us
reparation for the injuries we have
luftained from her ; while he drove
to paiiate, if not to conceal, thofe
multiplied, enormous and inceffant,
as well as unprovoked, offences,
thofe “ trerpaffes,” as Mr. Madison
has been plcafed to ftyle them—
which the French tyrant has long
been in the practice of committing,
both agaiuft our government and
citizens.
He quizzed the nation, in ms pur
chafe of Louifiana \ in his fine ftorv
aboutit extending, eaftwardly, to the
river Perdido—and having, in the
Weft, a huge bait Mountain !
He quizzed the nation, by fending
(and very ilily too,) one Shsrt, as a
uimifter to Rujfia !—a government
with which we have, or ought to
have, nothing to do ; and his fuc
ctfior has, recently, repeated this quiz
by defpatching the office feeking
John Adams on the fame foolifh
it not criminal errand.
He quizzed the nation w’ithhis dry
docks-—gun-boats-—and other pro
jects of innovation, worthy of a mod
ern philo fopher
In fliort —for if we were to go on
with reciring the quizzes that have
occured from the election of Thom
as Jefferson as Prefldent of the U
nited States, dowm to the ludicrous
quiz of the making Simon Snyder
governor of Pennfyhania / there
w'ould be no end, to the undertaking ;
—the tame Thomas Jeiferson, by
his incomparable knack o', quizzing
the people in a great variety of ways,
while he was in power, as well as
before; by the arch quiz of “ nomi
nating his fuccetfor by his quizzing
of Mr. Madison, ever fince his ac
ceflion to Prefidencv ; by the late cu
rious quiz put upon the people, in the
cafe of Mr. Jackson, the Britifli
Minuter, in conlequence of the Jef
ferfonim fyltem of policy being (till
purlued ; and by quizzng—through
the medium of fuch fccond, third,
and fourth rate quizzical fub agents,
23 Giles, Bob Smith and ErrEs*
the United States to the very brink
of a ruinous War though dcftitute of
ei her revenues or the means of de
fence—much lefs of cffenftve hoftili
ties ; by fuch a fyflem of quizzing
as this, we fay, has the peaceable, pat
riotic and philanthropic philofopher,
Thomas Jffferson, contrived to
quiz the good people of this country
to the verge of deltruction !
All th is is, truly most serious quiz• I
ing ; But, we will fain hope that
the charm, by which the people have
been Co long and so gfieviously quiz
zed, is pretty nearly broken. War
has no attractions for the quiet, in
offensive farmer, the indusrrious me
chanic,ox the plodding trader hat- I
ever it may h<»ld out to ambitious de
magogues, French agents, or fouth
cru fpendthrifts. I he citizens of the
United States feel not the least inch
nation to receive the fraternal hu£
from the Emperor Naooleon : No—
they have wit tie fled the fate of Hoi
land, of Germany, of Switzerland
and of Spain j-they have fecn enough
of French Freedom /
Let our quizzical politicians, then,
dslift irom further inf lilting an lion
eft an 1 well meaning people; the*
may “ quiz their even confidences, * it
they pleafe ; but let them not be fur
prized, if that fame people fhould at
no very diftant day repay them with
interell, for the treacherous and a
bominable deceptions, of which they
have been guilty. NO QUIZ.
tljf $pat&*
SALEM, FF.B 20,1810.
ANOTHER GRASP !
BY the arrival of Capt. Stick nut,
at Beverly, from Tonningen, we have!
the unpleasant news of a general seiz-*
ure of all the American cargoes in the j
ports of Denmark. This took place in j
Tonningen about the 15th December, j
The o&teniibie cause was, that some '
American vessels with colonial pro
duce, professedly from America, were
discovered to be in fact direct from
England. The papers relating to the
pronerty were sent on to commission
ers'at Hamburg, and from thence to
Copenhagen for examination by the
Danish government. It was ho/ied,
that, these being clear, the property
would shortly be restored, and that the
operation would upon the whole be in
favour of the American trade. All was j
however conjecture and uncertainty *
upon the subject. If this measure is
dictated by M the hand oj JVafioleon” as
doubtless it is, the property may be
considered as in great jeopardy ; though
a favourable inferance is drawn from
ihe circumstance of the documents be
ing sent to Copenhagen rather than to
Paris. There is no doubt but one gen- .
eral system is directed by Bonaparte, j
trom Naples to Denmark ; it is to ue [
yet seen whether policy will lead him
to a less rigid enforcement of the sys- j
tern in one place than in another.
A letter, received from Rotterdam, f
and dated Nov. 10, says—“ That news
was received that day, from Paris,
stating, that orders had been sent from
Paris to Tonningen, to shut the port
against American vessels.**
r i
Letters from Gottenburg complain
of foreigners acting as American con
suls at many of the Northern Europe
an ports. It is conceived some of the
evils our commerce fufiers, might be
remedied, if we had consuls exclusively
devoted to the American interest.
No one who is not a madman or a
fool, can now entertain a doubt of the
unalterable determination of Bonaparte
to destroy the commerce of the world
as Lr as he is able. Two years si \e,
when, in reply to the remonstranc of
the magistrates of Hamburg, who told
him his conduct would destoy com
merce, the tyraat exclaimed, “ Com
merce Sc England are identified. Being
determined to crush England, it is nec
essary Commerce should fall ; and I
am determined that others shall co-op
erate with me in effecting it.**—The
exclamation was considered as the ef
fect of derangement ; but the system
atic course he has since pursued has
shewn th$ft such was his deliberate de
ter minatitfft. Is not this worthy con
sideration ?—Centinel.
FJCl'S—DESERVING ATTENTION.
It is a fact, that Jeremiah Clark,
Ex-Collector of York, who is one ot
the late public defaulters to the tune of
between twenty and thirty thousand dol
lars, and who is now in prison there
for,* never would have received his ap
pointment of Collector had he not been
recommended foV the office by Mr.
John Lang don, the now democratic
candidate for Governor of JS/ew-Hamp
hire. Another fact is that this same
Mr. Clare was known to be in a state
of insolvency two or three years since,
which must have been apparent to his
fellow townsmen ; yet at the last elec
tion, this Mr. Clark was chosen by
the good people of York to be one of their
lemocratic Representatives in the Gen
eral Court ; and thus made a Guardain
of the People’s money. Will not these
facts have an influence on the Electors
of Any-Hampshire, in their ensuing
gubernatorial election ; and, on even
the people of York, in the bestowment
of their future suffrages. Let honest
nen answer the question. It is mote
over a fact, that when one of the most
tonorable and just men in the State,
Mr. Jackson, was removed from the
office of Treasurer, to make room for
Mr. Skinner ;—that Skinner was
then a defaulter as District Marshal to
between hour and Five Thousand dol
i !at*s. We do not say, that this fact was
mown when he was put into office .
dut we do say, it was the duty of those
ho nominated him in Caucus, and
supported and carried his election in
ae Legislature, to have made inquiry,
whether he had accounted for the mo
nies he had been entrusted with in one
office, before he was entrusted with all
'he Public money and funds of the
NOTE.
Since writing the above we have seen
* h^er from a respectable gentleman in
\ ork. dated on Saturday last, which says,
I inform you that cm* former Collector,
Jeremiah Clark, broke jail lust night, nud is
„oaeutf” 0
State ! Let the people r* ». ct on ims
fact, before they vote oat upright ser
vants, and vote defaulters in —
Dewitt Clinton, and his coadju
tors, have all been removed from otl.ee,
bv the new JSlew-York Council of Ap*
puinlmcnt ; and the old Federal office
holders, who had been turned out to
make room lor them, have been re
stored.
The House of Representatives of
Pcnnn/lvartia, have 60 to a 3 passed Re
solves APPROVING of the MILITA
RY OPPOSITION IN 1 HAT
STATE to the AUTHORITY of the
UNITED STATES! A resolution
complimentary to President Madison,
WAS REJECTED / Thus do De
mocrats maintain THEIR OPIN
IONS. _
jportiaitt),
Monday, February 26, 1810.
I
Mr. Shirley,
THE Subscriber presents his re
spects to the Federal Electors of the
Cumberland Senatorial District, and
thanks them for their past confidence
in him, but requests them not to con
sider him a Candidate for the present
year.
AMMI R. MITCHELL.
Northyarmouth, Feb. 24, 1810.
We understand a County Convantlon is
to be holden at Mr. Gibbs’s Inn, in Gray,
on Thursday next, for the purpose of agree
ing on suitable persons to be supported by
the FEDERAL REPUBLICANS, for
Senators of Cumberland District, at the
ensuing election.
VOTERS OF MAIJVE,
Your CONSTITUTION, and your
RIGHTS are stretched on the rack of
Dcs/iotism—Their groans call upon you
to exert yourselves in their preserva
tion. Yoj have two candidates for
Governor set before you, oat of whom
you are called upon to make a selection.
Your suffering country, demands those
who are favorable to her true interests,
and we offer to ymi, as candidate for
Governor,
His Excellency
CHRISTOPHER GORE,
and for I .ieut. Governor,
His Honor DAVID COBB.
These men have been tried the last
year, and they have proved strenuous
supporters of your constitution. They
are not “ broken Reeds” but men irfto
whose care you may entrust your
Rights, your Properties, and your very
lives. They were never instrumental
in afflicting you with Embargo and non
intercourses. They never appointed
men to office, who have defrauded you
of your money. And above all, they
never offered their friendship to blood*
thirsty Napoleon.
FOREIGN.
It appears that the Goliath of Despotism
has been able to elfect the confiscation of ^
American property in Denmark. This news
is received by an arrival at Beverly, and is
given in this day’s paper. A raree tbovj of
potentates and pnnoes was exhibiting at
Paris, at the last dates. The end of their
deliberations will probably be, a resolve to
overthrow England, and America, if she
does not knuckle to the Emperor. \Ve are
glad to hear that there is no prospect of A
sia’s being brought under the Corsican yoke
The Persians have dismissed Bonn’s Arch
Devil (Gardanne), whom he had sent there
to “ expostulate and reason” with them. It
is reported that Talleyrand has been sent to
England with powers of negotiation fur
peace. This is very imp'-obable.
The French army are still in Germany.
Bonaparte has put all the prisoners into his
ranks, which were taken in the last cam
paign ; another of the thousand instances of
Grdlic fidelity.
The last arrivals from England bring no
thing very important to America, as it re
gards an adjustment with that country- It
appears that an account of the dismissal of
their Envoy, whom they had supposed
would settle all disputes with this country,
had net reached England.
Cobbet, the great Jacobin, and alternate
ly a friend and an enemy to our democrats,
is under a prosecution for a libel.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
CONGRESS.
It seems as if the majority in Congress
were determined against doing any thing
pro bona publico. They think themselves
secure from invusion, when “ thundering in
the capitol” with tha convenient sum of
i-ix dolmrt a day. The affairs of the eountrv
are settled, they suppose, br the passage of
Macon’s bill in the House, and they are sing
ing lullaby to it [better to be chaumingit*
dcalh-knellj, in the Senate. Mr Burwell,
»««» wtiiimiMiT, it li’uuy repof^j
The purport, of l,i» bill is, to au ^
President to put in reqtits>tion u.c y
Me L a ted State*, (including gun-boats] \/r |
to require them to Convoy all <>ur Vri>S(i
any ports into which they are not pruj.j >
ed by Orders and Decrees. Anil *f tt .
our declarations of neutral right*, &c. s irct
is to be allowed by national vessel,, but
by privateers and letters of marque. Ga
mer-chants are also permitted to arm. T i,i»
is almost an equivalent to war. We think
it will not pass.
MASS AC HUSK TTS LEGISLATURE,
Our Legislature are much more active fc
more zealous for the good of their constitu.
ents than Congress. The most excellent
REPORT, which on lit to he studied by
all, has passed both Houses. We much re
gret our inability to give it to bur readers
this week, on account of its length, but
purpose to give it in our next—We j,re rc.
joiced to see the S ate of New-York c m.
, plelely renovated, and that the Federalists
! who were displaced by an overbearing
1 desperate faction, are reinstated in their of.
i fices.
On Friday last, a man by the namenfE!}.
sha Thomas, was apprehended and carr*d
before Justice Freeman for passing counter,
tie it Bank Bills.—There were found in hi«
possession to the amount of more than fJUr.
teen hundred dollars of nine different Banks
more than half of which were in imitation
of the Bills of the Boston Bank, the rest
were of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank
(Philadelphia)—tha Union Bank (Boston)
the Newburyport, H llsborough, Maine,
Portland, Vermont and New-Brunswick
Banks, but chiefly of the three former, viz.
Farmers, Union and Newburyport. He '■%
committed to the gaol in ih.s town, he sav*
he come from Canada.
The American Duke—of York.
Our jacobins have been very full of their
animadversions upon the Duke of York. If
they were to bring the subject nearer home,
they might find a person, who very much
resembled him in his profuse liberal.tv lo
his friends. Mr. Jefferson and his Cork
(alias Sec. M—n) and Mr. Clark (Codec,
tor at York) have been the means of squan.
dering more money than ever any persons
were suffered to do iu England or any other
country, with impunity.
The democrats wish to make it appear
that they are friendly to commerce, and re
pent of their having advocated the embargo.
Is it possible that they can suppose the peo
pie such dupes as to be deceived by their
vapid professions ? They |*retend all this
before election, and hope to profit by it.
They have been uniformly opposed to com.
merce and those who have engaged in it;
and this for no other reason than because
a majority of the merchants in New Eng
land, are Federal. Recently, however,
they pretend that their great friendship for
commerce, has induced them to set up Mr.
Gray for the office of Lt. Governor, From
this it is evident they think the tefuseoithe
Federal party better than their own. They
would even have tuck'd up John Adams, but
for the disgrace attending it.
The democratic satelites in different part*
of the country all revolve round some larger
planets as a centre, and from this p.anet they
derive their nourishment andgr .w* ; some
times, however, through such a 77. *zy tract
of falsehood, they get bew ildere and over
shoot their oriits. The little suet ■ g in th u
town, together with the V,hei <1 iagogt
papers in the state, all h •> .-oto tr. * Chron
icle and Patriot as sources of Ivf.t ar.c heat.
All eyes direct then rajs
On them, £5* crowds turn rascals as they gaze.
11 Clothe you in sardcloth ; cover you toiih
ashes. ”
The Democrats of this town propore cel
ebrating the 4lh of March, by dascin*.
Are these fellows rejoiced with the prospect
of “ Alliance with France,” or so inlutua
ted as to believe the present, a time for
mirth and rejoicing ? They had better hotel
day and night, for the evils which the 4ih of
March, 1800 has entailed upon the Ameri
can people. This was the day in which tbe
sins ct America were visited, by the com*
menceraent of a plague, worse than any of
Pharaoh's frogs or locusts, viz. the accc*
sion of 1 horn us Jefierson te the presi^B*
cy.
draining.
We never before heard that the “reposi
tory of wit and genius" could be drained. W«
had thought it inexhaustible, until the Ar
gue-us-men declared the contrary. How
ever, tliey have evinced that their repository
whether of wit and genius or of nonsense, i*
effectually drcu.ied. This has bven the case
with common stivers, when they are surchar
ged with polluted substances—A pure
stream of truth may sometimes purge them
' * their dirt, but it will in lime collect agair,
by frequent injections from minor stteams;
and then it requires a ciearer stream from
the fountain (of satiref to carry it off*.
** See, what a cloud is lowering o'er our head*,
dnd threatening every hour to burst upsn us•'
What man, what true American can
view the awful and ilarming situation
in which our once happy republic is sit
uated, without the most heartfelt emo
tion, and keenest Indignation. Are we
also, to be numbered among those tin*
happy nations,who are dragged through
tlte gulph cl tyranny and misery, by th*
hell-hound ot France. Certainly, ap*
pearances indicate—and these appear
ances arc fast multiplying—that this is
the case j and what is worse, those in
whose hands our constitution and the ad
ministration rJ it, fa, are favorable to this
union. If we once get w ithin the grasp
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