Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-02-02
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1901.


the moa part, men Of little perlonal character,
and deerving Of little confederation. AT length,
however, from the alliance at numerous men Of
ds,psrdfs (orfaasS, Of corrupted usorah aEeFs. es
perados, sSfat,iafed patriots, rfsgees from Euro
pean jnllioc together with many well meaning
but miRaken and deluded petfuns, they have
incieaied to formidable and regularly organ
ixed phalanx. All thefe are induariouly
trained and drilled to t~,ir exeIciie by smbi-
tious demagogues who Win for nothing e much
as a rsvaiHfisn, from the hope Of acquiring A
copfequence Of which they can have no eApee-
tstion from their Virtues or their talents.
Such is the fatiinn, againa which the good
and The wife have now TO contend: a noxious,
poifonons weed, which, like the gourd Of Jonah,
has prung up and gaine@ its maturity during
the night Of neglea, foitSred by ,he fwouring
darkness Of obieuiity and contempt, I'll its
ipreading branches have become co extenGve
With the nation, threatening to lnorher the
growth Of our morals, religion, liberty and ma.
tional digcity.
Theie are the fruits Of laxsefs and letharey
in the friends of good government and necei-
fairy fubordinaticn. Il IS now high time to
awake from this torpid indifference. ACTIVE
VIGILANCE, and not forbearance, IS the
virtue which our country demands. 1t is no "
two late 70 difpiie what we have been aceuf
toned To view With a rnixjue of eontemp',
difgul and pity.--Ths ferpent. generated in the
llime and filth Of Tacobisisa, has grown up 70 A
P,fkian raoEger, which NUT be attacked and
fub iuej, although his breath bear peitilenee,
and his fpumes potion, 70 hofe who approach
him.
In lard Of univerfi fudrages. ike ours, it
IS not The condutt OF one or two individuals
that we have mot to dread II is the general
afcendency Of the worthless, the oilhonsR. the
rapaeious lhe vile, the msrcilsfs and the ungod-
~, which forms yhe principal ground Of aLrrn.
| Thcl- are the men who have incehanty nalig
ned the officers ri eur gaveFnmeut collectively
and Individually, cur cout, at icltice, our laws,
our clergy and Gus fminaies OF learning -
'Thefe are the men who called WAsHlwcrox a
rgw dcrcr and thelc arc he men TO whom mr..
Burr and Mr. Tlfsry,E ave indebted for the two
| higheG Offices in tlrc nation. From luch men
we have every thing to fear. They already
| proclaim, in their appropriate iargon, that the
I" reign Of terror has Ceaied, and that the ri
! umpho Of dsmocratcal and republican principles.
over tyranncal Sriitccracy, Is commencing /;
in plain Engliih that the rabble has broken
over ali reitraint and are iua preparing to i'm.
| brus their hands in the blood OF thole, who may
arS mpt to fay their prngrels. II is fallacious,
| therefore, "a imagine that We hall experience
| only change Of men. Men If wiidom and
honeRy, who know tbat IL: government has
| been adm,niaered with fidelity, and the laws
executed with iuitce, who alto know The fedi-
| tions and Intersections which iuch meafures
A a. i -
es of the triumphant party, NUT Zee that lome
| thing very different from ths equitable admin
iIlration of our prgiat contribution it is to be
erpeded.
Ia a confederation efficiently deplorahle,
| in chriaian country, that reputed initel,
an open rcofFer at the peron aud character of
the Saviour, and reru,sd lharper, fpecultor
and libertiue, fhonld De elevated TO the hig Ell
| cations IN The government and foy the very
reafon too, that they are thus reputed. But
whatever may be The character and views Of the
Preident AID Vice Preiident sleei, their admin.
| ifratou viii certainly be dangerous to the
peace and contribution Of This country not
merely, and perhaps not principally, from their
official mealures, bot fiom the additional iHAu-
ence which il viii give 10 the ignorant and the
wicked.
Every man OF reading knows. that our con-
Ritulon, in is prelent form and under its pre-
ieut equitable administration fecures to The iub.
iea comfortably greater hare Of freedom
than has ever yer, in any extenGve country,
been found TO conflt with real liberty or per.
manent fecurity. Every iuch man fees with
alarm, that we are now in the high road which
has uniformly led 10 depotiim, through the
dark valley OF anarchy. Any additional weight,
therefore, in the popular lcale, mutt be fatal.
81 quidqusR mutsre wells, unoque fOb leu,
Stat genus humanum II
Make any change, Of this nature, aud we are
cruihed together. Such has already become
the audacity of the faction that they glamour,
publicly, Of a recou'fe to the bayooet
AS we now proceed, we are rapidly tracing
Tie Gems ~ Franrn and have already arrived,