Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-02-10
.lfeNane0us articles.
GOVERNOR M'KEAN.

~ OV. M'Kean's Incorporate abufe is pro-
" ducing its natural effea, difunon and tur-
6uence in the Legislature, and enmity between
f.. the citizens. After branding $4,000 free eleet
ors with every fcuriilous epithet his irrtated
fancy could invent, he has no claim to conf
-dence, dignity or refpea-I'he Senate of this
State have properly rsfented his abufc and are
determined to mete to the Governor the meat
ure he has meted TO them The following is
their anfwer to his Speech at the opening of the
felton, -
"SR,
"THE -fentiments you announce, and tie
motives which you proiefs in relation to The high
and refponhDie fruit committed to your admin
ifration, are fach as have afforded fatisfaetion,
and claimed the refpea Of the Senate of Penn
fylvania.
"With principles thus correct, and views
thus lauda5le, we had momen,ary hope that
a corresponding conduct would have followed
and that by manly and noble policy, the
fprit of party and political difcontent which
now divides our fate and threatens its peace,
would have been removed, and tranquility a.
gain relored. Under thefe impreflions, and
with difpoiitions to relinquiih perfonal conf
derations when the public good required, we
were wiling TO forgive and if pofible to forget
the language ufed by you in your anfwers to
fundry addrefes on your election as Chief Mag.
ifracy-You there beltow on thofe who oppol-
ed your lection the mott approbious epithets,
and afcribe to them the mon wicked deligns.
We Gncercly lament, that thu fame fpirit which
dictates tllefe aniwers has marked your official
conduit. A great number ofrelpeaatlc char.
aeters have been rc-.oved from ofice againlf
whom no other blame re It's than the exercife of
their rights, as frecmen, in oppottion to your
wifhes amopgf ihefe are number of the
mott meritorous officers and folders engaged
in the eaablilhment of our independence =
They were feletted by our patriotic prediction
as defsrving their eountry's favour and graft
tude. The fmall rewards beloved have, for
the exercife of right, which their lives were
rifked to fecure, been by Jingle breath deltroy-
ed.
Affecting as thcfe considerations are, the
operation which fyaem of this kind mutt have
on the principles of our republican government,
has produced Gill greater concern. Our Con.
Ritution fecures the right of outrage; and it
will be TO no purpofe that our Laws are framed
TO guard againh undue influence in our elea.
ions, if fear on the one hand, or hope of reward
on the other, be fuffered to govern in the exer.
cife of this right. Ifoppolition 10 fnccefsful
candidate be conidercd a iufiicicnt ground for
the removal of an officer, and zealin his favour
regarded as the chief qualification in a flccef-
Tor, there is much reafon to believe that this
evil exits. ~ -.
"Whilf our oaths, our honor and our inter-
EFT impofe on us the facred duty of cooperating
in all mea(ures tending to the in,ereft and hap
pinefs of our continents, they alto impe us to
bear this public telfimony of our difapprobation
of meaiure which in its consequences will b.
deGructive and ruinous to republican princi.
PIES"