Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-06-02

AuPPo'S, 'uSHt tllSlG 70 Oe any hanging TOT r.
belon. They do not therefore reply within
tbefe four years, but they admin four years
more they will not only admit, but they will
contend and 70 BY degrees we ihall be cheated
of what we took TO be arong ground, tina; they
were aiming at the contribution, and be reduced
by their efErontery TO mere denial of the ex-
Pediency of deftroying it. And if they can "a
miliarize Ibis quetion to the public eye and ear,
the buiinets Ike that Of religion, is half done
for what we have once proRituted we no longer
relpe6.
There is in what IS called the new philofophy
a moG mean, unworthy and ignorant procedure.
1t admits man to be imperfect, and that all
which lie can do is imperfect yet it affects to
icorh the bea he can do, and advocate fome
hidden good. 1t admits our nature, and ridi-
cules US for not beiBg above H. 1t confehes
the want OF help and means, and it rejects all
that is offered or can be deviled. Thefe phi
lofoPhers in times which they pretend TO defpile,
would have dslerved, and would have been
treated with contempt.
Mr. Jefferion, in his letter TO MAzzsi, which
cannot be too much read and meditated on fully
declares in 1896 that 1--WE SHALL BREAK
THESE LlLLIPUTIAN TIES" meaning
beyond all controversy. and as fad before,
without denial THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES. Now this nobody
PTetendS 70 deny -ls there not foms other name
BY which Mr.. Jeffeifon ought 70 be known, be
iides patriot and philosopher , Is there not
Tome other deltiny more p oPer for him than TO
be Preiident Of he States : May he not very
we'll dePrecare the Brflb form ef gsv-yE
N ~ ?"-Surely this is the tine when we Ee
fbA II
Hoi, whether you take it for icripture or Wit
As well might wolf have charge of lamb as
Mr.. JeHerion have any fhare 10 the government
after iuch declaration. Certainly intead OF
1t he ought to be bound TO keep the peace.
But for the fake # a a arer { inception OF The
thing, let US fuppofe him Preioent with iuch
principles, and with followers N abundance to
provide for. Governor NJ Kean might be
brought =, a cafe IN point, who dilplaced all
the Old officers A. we arc informe 4, though ap-
pointed b. Gov. Mifln who was fuppofed to
ne no better atfeaed To the general government
than himlef, aud put in his own followers. 1t
is remarkable that thee prntipI.s, when ia
P wer, are very violent and a uive, as well
they may he, intending not 70 iupport but 10
deitroy, though they are more deceilful than a
lying prophet Before. We may fuppole then
that 10 Purluance Of the plan 70 break the ILL.,
rPutlsn tie, thoie Who at prelent guard them
Al the different aveeue' by which they may be
ahdildbl- wall be dfniaed, and Especially when
this will be followed by the double advantage
q iuPp YIN their places with needy di(ciples
and fellow lahourers in the fame pions de6gn.
What ihocSi0g conltq would follow from
having the whole government administered BY
men who were bent upon dearoyjng the con
'htuuon out q which il grows We ihould be IN
a Itate OF anarchy in one moment. The cafe
could not exit without horrible civil war
Conhjence would be at an end, and the purea
integrity would be ferociouny infuted. All
ties would he difolved, and even the late con
diIon OF France might be enviaoe 10 US. Are
IN ie dreams ?-Rehea properly on cAufe and
effect, and you will not be of that opinion.
And how would ltand our foreign relations !?
Recur e the Mazzei- letter.--At prelent we are
on very good terms with GreaJ-BritAin md the
confe 'erajes, and we are likely TO be on the fame
with France. Our energy and loyalty have
made US reiPeStabte enough to be OF footing
with Other nations. But lhould we forfeit thefe,
their efetf muh ALTO ceale Ii IS terrible 70
think Of the confeq.ence Of recalling miniRers
IN weak and turbulent times, and Of foreign
applications 10 the government of a diaraefed
people. -SuPPole infurredion or invafion when
funds are ruined, credit gone, and union rem.
dsred irretrevable. Not merely the contedera-
ton would be reltored, but even that would
not hold together moment; we ihould relapfe
further TO the governments of Jingle Rates, and
Potholy even this lat anchor would NOT bring
Us Up. Il theie too lhOuld give way, we lhouId
revert 70 jacobin iocieties and committees of
correspondence, and from thief. with the ex.
ample OF France there is bat very thort (tep,
or rather nooe at all, to the guillotne. The(e
are not fictitious dangers. They are but plain,
eaiy' and natural consequences of one wrong ttep
which, God b praiied, we have not yet taken.
With all this againa Mr.. ;ferfon, what is
there n his favour ?-There has b, en- nothing
laId which amounts 10 The leal neonf1tr of hau.