Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-11-30

THE lecond oblervation | have to make on
the principles avowed in your anfwer, is, that
the charge allejged Again0 your predecedor, Of
excluding from all office thoie who were not OF
particular le9, is not well founded You
have reRrided your aetufation to the late ad
miay2rGtiOa,by which mul be undertood the al
minjlrssion Of Mr.. A dams for with retped
TO Gen. Warrington, you know the charge can
not be fupPorted; nor is it Rri6tly true, in re.
gard to Mr. Adams. But as far as the expert
ment was made, bo.h your PredeceiIors found
abundant realon 10 queaUn the fafety Of aP-
pointing the oppofers Of their administrations to
refponGble Offices, Especially whe'e large lums
OF money were TO be nruhed 10 their care.
Ii Will be recolleded that Gen. Warrington,
begun his administration upon the NOT ooncil.
iatory principles. IN Distributing lhe Offices a.
mong parties, a, far as they then eziitei, he
held 4 mot impartial hand. What vas the
confequence He wa oppoled and betrayed by
the very men whom lie had invited 70 his
councils. 1t is truth not to be dfguiied, that
you, 0r, when Secretary Of State, were At he
head ct party incefantly throwing obifac'es
IN he way OF bis admniItrauon-ans have
before remn ked. that when you Traie he man,
admiaFratfoa 1t IS ALTO well known thar you
countenanced a newlpaPer, whieh was pubrilhed
TOR The purpofe OF inveghing againlt the meat
ures OF Gen Warrington.
When GU reigred, your Place was nile by
Mr.. Randolph, man Of The f4mr ka WhaC
was the ooniequence? Let the anfwsr be found
in the " precious corfeaions " WHICH betray he
iecrets Of governfaent to io' eien and Gdious
minifer-in the hiaory Oft -four merchants
and in bis default Of relunding money 10 the
United States, to the amount Of fifty or fixty
thoufand dollars, for which fuit j., or was
lately dePesJing, with little probability If re
covering the money.
The hifory of Gen. Lamb, Colleaor Of the
port Of New York, another Of the iame polit-
cal iea with yourfelf, who alo was found de,in
qusnt 10 the amount of fifty thoulard dollars
or more part of which an roId viii Be lot ]
afforded another melancholy intance row liz
tie confidence could be pared IN yoIr fR.
Another officer Of the revenue ID Bottom, BY
the name Of Jarvis of the fame republican jt3
was guilty Of a Gmilar breach of trnlt if | mf
take not, to the amount Of thirty tlIouC.nd do,-
lars
Mr.. Monroe, minifer to Frlnce, another Of
this favoriJe zen, who violated II niru6tion'
adds another example TO the liz OF i4ithleis pub
lie fervants.
IF, after all thefe inaances OF breach Of con
6dencs in the fR, which boaRed of IFS exciu
five tile 10 repubicanifm; Cen. Warrington,
| and Mr.. Adams, began 70 question the latety
Of appointing pretended republicans to office, can
any lober citizen blame their d u9ts Some
honef men Of the party obtained Offices AMI
! continued to enjoy them unmulea-d.- Some
Of your party received appointments from Mr..
| Adams, Especially military and naval officers.
| And can you, Sir, overlook the nomination of
| Mr.. Gerry, to BE one Of cur ENJOYS 70 FraDce
For the honor Of my country, deg AIDED and in-
lulted through his mean f-ryilty, and for he
honor Of hon9a Mr.. Adams, with il had not
been in my rower TO add that appointment to
the numerous other proofs Of the un6tnels OF
| yeur polit cal Jta for offices Of confidence Il
i not therefore true that your friends have been
all excluded from offices and as far as the prin-
cple Of extlulion was extended by your prede
cehoIs, il mua be afcribed to well founded Cuf
Picious Of their fidelity. No man, | believe,
was ever prscluded from office foley on the
ground Of his speculative opinions.
But the adertion, that by the Gea5y pur-
iuits OF meaiures [exclullon nearly all the eli
ces were monopolized by one fe6t,' requires
great notifications to Be Untitled to the char
a6ter of corr ednefs. You will pleafe to contider
Sir, that the PrsfHt parties, if they bad not their
origin, received their principle increafe and their
peculiar eharaaer, long after the date of moi
Of the appointments to civil Offices. There was
an ani-federal party exiting at the time de
government was framed and at the time it was
put in operation; and the leaders in oppoition
then, were The germs of the Prelent pa 1y, as
! they are now the leaders.
BuI Gen Wilmington came into Office by a
unanimous vote of both parties and The po-
litcal events which gave new character and
direction to opPoGtion, took place N 1893, and
the Gnbfeq1ent years It may be f,fe.y eitima
| ted that one third or one half Of your jsa has
been a clear augmentation to your Rrength
| fioCe the year 1893, Now it is ar unquetoa.
able truth that on the hrR organizations of the
government, the anti federal party received
their dle proportion Of Offices, taxing INFO e.t-