The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-10-22
FOR THE GAZETTE.
II fbs Eiea9rs Of The third EgRsrn DIE
triF.
EErLow CITIZENS,


70 The people, and The fpring from which the
good or bad adminiitration Of government mnR
flow, it is matter of atonihmeat that we pay
TO little attention 70 fubiea of 60 great con-
1equence. We with whom the name Of liberty
is p facied-we who are f. Jealous Of our privi-
leges--we who glory in the attribute of FOYER
signty-we who have fled our richeR blood TO
chabiiih it--Ws are the peaple who wave the
exsrcile of the all important right Of outrage as
a matter of ind ference, or a tak--ap ignoble
dzudgery, worthy only the intrigui- activity
otthe Tedious Partizan Happy in an excel
lent confti d, ion Of government, and hitherto,
fortunate IN it's administration, we have repoied
under its iRhuance--we have eft mated its IN
common bleilings as common things. Habitua-
ted to tranquility we have become fecure--we
have forgotten the obligations owe to our
/ felves and fociety--we have forgotten, alas
that it is our duty 10 exercifc our right Of cleo
tion.
But It is time to aroufe from our Numbers
cdr country is in danger, and the intriguing,
the afve, the Tedious partizan, tie TacoBin, is
4 till in the miiR of US. Attic few in number,
indeed, and of no it-ength when compared with
the true friends Of govercmont; yet, if we
awaken not to our duty as citzens-if we i'm
prove not our right Of fafrage IF we prefer the
call OF private buiinefs Incidence to the call of
our country on the approaching election Of fed
oral representative, we lhall have reaion, when
too LATE, TO repent our folly.
prelume, fellow citizens, fome Of you are
informed that plan rs in operation in feveral
parts of our dltri6 to efel the election of the
Rev. Mr.. Fairfield of Pepperelliborough, as de-
legate to Congrefs, in room cf Mr. Thatcher.
A plan, the iuccsls Of which its projectors well
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suaiiied voters in the dfria, and the too
great con6d- ice in which they ref Of Mr..
I'hatcher's election without their individual
voice in his flpport. The objea of this addrefs
is to Gimulste your attendance on tie meetings,
by convincing YOU that il is Of the lat imPor-
tance this plan fh0ul1 be frulrzted.
| have 10 expectation Of preventing Mr..
Fair6eld's election by alperGng his character,
or of procuring that Of Mr.. Thatcher by
eulogy. Men only can reprefent the inierefs
and feelings Of men /; and a candidate without
fome expofable fault or imperfeetion, would be
fonsthing her than man. The political and
private charaaer Of Mr.. Thatcher are, and long
have been, too we'll Known to require any illnf-
tration Of mine. With the private character of
Mr. FAIRFIELD am in Tome meafure acquainted.
It IS that Of learned and worthy man, Untitled
to both my refpea and eleenl. Il is faid by
fome thar he is a iacobn-by others that he is
fe ieralia. His politics and qualifications
not certainly known to bur very few in the DIFF
trict | nyielf am ignorant Of then.-If, how
ever, we may Judge from an age between iixtY
and feventy, deailute Of the leaf experience in
public buinefs, we may with much proPriety
conclude that he neither is nor ever can be &C
cording TO the conr!e of nature very well quail
6.d for member of Congres. But his po-
Iitical eysed Is at this time the main conildera-
ton. This, If we mar realon from the known
character Of bis Importers, can be nothing ihort
of a moa glowing tiGue Of French hereby.
But, my fellow citizens, the great quefion
before the dhrid IS, not which of the two pro-
pofed candidates vii. bet repreient Us bur
whether any change whatever, IS expedlent ua-
der exiting circumstances
IL IS swfaa not 70 be controverted, though
hitherto not manifea in the exteAt it ought TO
be, thar very large majority of this dilfrid
approve, in the maa unqualified manner, the
meafures adopted by the Executive in regard to
orr foreign relations. 1t is ALTO not only as
true, but universally known, that Mr.. Thatcher
has, with the utrnol ACTIVITY and frmnsfs, fup.
ported the ef.ctuation of the fame fyfem Of
policy in Congress. He has therefore, Untitled
himfelf, and (if we are confident with our
fslves) mutt neceGarily poAefs in the higheR
degree, our appreciation and confidence. But,
as yet, we have had no public opportunity as a
diari4, of tefifying to him and the world cur
ftisfadion in his conduit. 1t by his re-elec
tion only that we can drea to him the plaudit,
TbOu bejq dsjsrVed 4yca efsJy f2uaf'y''-Iris BY
this method alone thar we can evidence an uni
formity and conRancy Of charader--a character
that, while il untrammcls the representative,
animates him with boldneis in dilcharge Of his
duty, and 2imulates him to merit the repetition
ef our ilrffrsges In fine a chara6ter equally re