The gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1798-1799, 1798-07-16


until they found by the CONDUCT of Blu: goyne,
We might be able to do without them, and they
might loie the benefit Of our fuccefs. No efec
tual aid, however, excepting BY diverGon was
afterwards afforded Us for feveral years, except
towards the concluGon Of the war, in the cap
ture Ct CORVALLIS. Jealous of our growing out
Of thetr tuteage, in The treaty Of peace hey en-
deavored to corfne our limits and to give our
wIlderncis and ftheries TO rival king. Their
agents afterwards were in0ruaed to divide and
dePreis US and had not hey been fully occu
ped with the approaches Of their revolution and
had not good Angel held the winds Of d1cc-d
which the French would have blown among up
Us, We never III uld have fonnd an opportunity
70 eitabhih our Preient contribution which, by
unrIng all our trergth, gives US power to flp-
port OR independence. An opportunity which
no other nation has ever had, to dlcuf, and
adopt, IN peace, without fraud or a Jingle wea-
Pon OF torce, uch a government as their united
wilIcm cou,d devif: from the experience of al
the world.-In the frecR ancient States an ind.
viduol Of en- dictated the conaitution. And
tn fe lately formed by France, for herf-lf or f1r
her neighbors, have all been enforced By mobs
or armies. But for the fake OF keeping il favor
with the French, our poIiti-ians have 70 long
concealed all complaints, and have e. often fiat
terei French vanity, that We owed every thing
e their diiinterelted love, tuat they began to
think were all 70 Gmple as o believe i.
And they have 4 ltrered Us in turn, that they
wsre ONLY learning liberty IN our GchooE And
{ me noble heGinn ngs hey had made in their
hr.t ehAys, ed our rride 10 acknow.e &c theft
pupils, and ing fnd.y to ex enuate and offend
Ihei- following enntmt;es. TIE fubtle leaders
OF their iecond revolution u fought and pro
claimed 4 war with Germany, IA t IN the pr
ion q the people, thoy might have an ~pportu
nl'y to make the king fu fc7-d, TO Ike away
has remaining authority, which was ielt wi h
hum as thrift magiltrate and ALTO to dca.oy The
brave 1hen who had thus far reIu eI the
king, ana Who Ito-d III the cf ,her am
b:tian. B this ocly prep .r-d tie wy fer
another faction, m r. Ca-nr, 10 lie IN taeir
ram, to throw off III a%raint OF law. of hu nan
~, an "a Cod; and to n cola m he nroi-1 of
unlvefl4i rev, luton, or rather I'M rial MI
quet aad delolatcn AMI in pu ut Of rhs
purple to provoke a WIZ on Hollan and En-
gIand. In th, 1e times il was, pre- umrg Oh
our blind devotion u Their views he her goo
or bal, and he fAUe Blind haired towar. s
England, they dlpatched Gsn=t to lead US INTO,
and thin govern M, thou, ~ this long ntea
The approach o. tbs mn OF VIZ, was viewed
with great anv'ety, as cur unarmed ihips were
in all the feas and our long coaG info tad
expo ed TO die Britiih hip If war while thofe
Of France were, AS they vet are, nut INTO their
own ports BY thei en- mics
TIE grel:e.t advantage that hal been expsc-
ted from our niepend nc, was an exemption
from thof, broils of Europe, which had ke2t
u IN their wars nearly half tn. i'm. f>r a cen
fury, and which may 90 on TO rae for centu-
RE, 10 com. AMI az they h AZ 6rt proc med
war-a var oHeniivc II its pri, cpe, W were
not bound to a.iR them in il, IN an meaflrc
and Il we wee, teif preierv ti1n being the 6rt
law Of natu and Of nations, we c0u lot be
bound in fuch ca(-, to ruth into otr,an rain,
with the lmall mems we h Ia Oil help NJ the v.
Ih-y wanted rot men but only proviiOn, to
maintain the multtud h-v had and with
out the neutral flag Of peace. We could not
have ient thcle T. them, nor could We have
paid them our deb, not yet due, by anticipation
as we have done.
At that critical moment If our country's
danger, Warrington pr claimed our exiting
neutrality, that We might he better u0d rR nd
and maintain t. Genet, therefore, concealed
MS war inArua ons-diIcnbhd bis Of; ms
but went on iIuinJ nm lIionS 10 arm our
ihiP' as Pr;9at ers, and enlfng troops among
our people. When opp fed in thele meafureg,
as inevitably leading to war, be threatened the
government to appeal to The peop'e, !. e. to AZ
:cmPt to take the government wholly UPON him
fclt. Il was nov found that the Amerioan peo.
pc had lome American fentiment and charac.
TT; that they we're not all the fond dupes of
French intrigue. But powerful party was
f,rmed by this m'nlter's reViPaPers ana clubs,
TO divide and weaken, if not to govern TIE
CO ntry. With this party, he and his fnccer
lors have Till been playing to fubIue our gov
nj ~ a., IL.