Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1800-05-26

INsoLEScE and IMPuDENcE feem TO have got
TO their highef pitch. a f.t Of imported iarea
diaries, urged on by The jacobins of our country
make nothing OF committing the mott heiuous
crimes agaipll the government and letting at
defiance every fep taken to punih them for il.
They make nothing Of pretending 10 the pro
ceedings Of Congrerfs, what is righy or what il
wrong-what IS constitutional or what is uncon-
htutional and, when they are arraigned before
Court Of Juiice TO anfRer for their crimes,
Of debating the method they NUT puriue, a. tho
they were the great Umpires of our nation
Indeed Punilhmeut frems TO urge them on in
Read Of deterring them from their diabolicai
plans. How long Government will permit theie
baie incendiaries, who have robbed Julice Of her
right in their own country, 30 be meddling with
the political concerns Of the nation, is hard 70
conjecture; but 70 long as there is remedy
prctcribed, il is pity il ihould not Be applied
70 this wora of all evils, the interference OF for
eigneTs with cur national concerns. To en-
eourale faeh As are Of good repute to fetle here,
Is certainly laudabie, anu we are happy Ia re
many among us, whole induary and oharAtter
would be an advantage and an honor u any
country. Bot theh 20 encourage Jhe 9f5coBriag
Of every country 10 reGI h-re, to excite orolis
and civil CONNEXIONS, i an evil, when once II
gets footing that ages cannot remedy and
We certainly experience its dire efltts, more and
more every day.
1t fesms that they were aware If this evil, IN
lome iuRAnces, in earlier ages that they were
fenGble that foreign fuence was the lure def.
troger Of all government and order-that it eat
to the very vItaIs Of peace and happiness. IN
the anciept republic Of Athens, under the gov
ernment Of the wife Scion, foreigner was per.
nittcd to reGde, perhaps a, hong as he conducted
himfelf with proprety; but he was entirely
excluded from having any thing 70 do with the
concerns of the nation and law was made,
making It highly penal for foreigner to intrude
himfelf into the anemblieS OF the people of
courfe, while there, he was but a mere cypher.
IA the mo ern republic of America, We fee them
placed here and there in the different afcmbles,
as bitrators Of free people, As if the country
was not able to produce natural born citizens Of
her own, who were capable of concluding her
national concerns, while hor 1es Of them are be-
citing. on all quarters, the bulwark Of our ma
son., the contribution Of America.
When we permit reople Of every nation. whole
opinions diametricaly oPpolite TO each other,
20 have any concetn with the affairs Of the
cOuhtTy5 what can we expect Dut conunuaI
jargon--a confu ed pile Of political opinions,
each ttruggng for pre- emiaence3 What peace
or tranquility i there to be expected IN thisPoi
tnre of Affairs Theie are evils which certainly
await this country; indeed they have already
experienced lis too banefu eFeas and unlels
the government of this country take efficient
neafures 10 exclude the interference Of foreign
ers with her political coacerns, we may expect to
fee he much boafed liberty and independence
Of America trodden under foot BY foreign in.
tru4ers, united With the jacobns If cur own
cnsnuY,