Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-10-26

tdu3nt you 10 fuppTeis the remotelt intIuuaIion
OF that fort Indeed, TO what caufe, but a
blind confidence, in your talent for difguitng
your meaning, or TO an indifcretion that pro-
ceeds from imbscility of mind, can we alcrite
the inconhltency Of declaring in the fame page,
that we are all repubicans and federaIilt.; di
vided only by uneiIeptial differences breih en-
OF the fame principle, called BY different names
yetthat your oPPolers had been guilty Of intol-
erance as defpotic as It was wicked.
The next paadge in the addrels, allad:ng 10
The revolution 10 France, fubie6 thar awakens
all the isnhbility of the republican, exhibits The
tTeiident OF the United States on the wings Of
eloquence and metaphor. During the tbroes
and convul6ons of the ancient world during
the Ggoni&ing lpe6nI of i1fa,iated man, feekinr
through blood and laughter bis long loa lib
erty, it was NOT wonderful that the agitation Of
the hllocpJ fhould reach even this d.aant and
peaceful ihore-that this hould b. mb;e felt
and feared by iome and lels by others-and
LIQUID divide opinions as TO meAfu es Of fate.
ty." Merciful genius of letters and phlofo
ply Is this the language OF the learned Teif.r,
ionf Surely The mountain in labor ought atleaa
to produce mouie. In The az lice we are preien-
ted with the ancient world pregnant witt lber.
~, and IN the tbrosJ and panes OF labor-in be
fecond, we fee man infatuated and aronizirg
with the ipaims of deiirinm and nuadeG-in th9
third, this agonizing man is wading in blood. in
iearch OF ms lfi hbrty (which was iua befot Z
Grid giving Psngs TO a worldJ-i the fourth,
this agony ct pregnant world, and pfuria,ed
man, have RATED pillows" that have reached
America bot at Taft, all this qgoay and 6ary.
and GgaaaJa Of Jillo4Us, iIa= il the fnple e(,
fef Ct : b.ing more felt and feared BY iome
and leis BY Others"
A6quandO dOrmitar Homerus"
g Even Hem, Jsruaa,. a.fps.'
Whatever doubts men may have entertained
OF The inundnefs Of your political ereei, it is
Prriumed no man in future viii deny you the
palm of supremacy ia the art OF fatisg and
confounding metaphors
Alter this deiirious excurGon into the regions
Of metaphor and delctip,ion, The addrefs pre-
ha5ltS " But every d ference OF oPmou II
not difference Of principle. We have called BY
different names brethren of the fame principle.
We are all republicans--we are all federalilts."
Pay, iir, contraa thefe declarations with your
aG-rtioas in the anfwtr 10 the New Haven mer-
chants. You there tell IT,, I" When il is confd
deFed that duri the late admint}' alton, ;hofe
who were not Of particular ys5 Of politics
were excluded from all office wheo by itea
dy purluit OF this meafure, nearly the qobo!e Of
fcss al the United States were monopolized by
that fsl when the public ientiment at length
declared itielf and bnrlt opsn the doors Of hon
oar and confidence to thof- VII e opinion
they more approved, was it TO be imagined tina;
this monopoly of Office was ltill to be continued
in the hands of The minority.
would not dwell on your inaccuracies and
perVerfons Of language, had not your friends
uniformly Represented you as amodel Of co rect
fcience, and a matter of ayle.-More dilcerning
Scholars know that your writings are remarka-
bic for incorrect language. In the preceding
paragraph, the words qub0h o6FcsJ are neither
grammar nor ienfe-and the word they Whole
opinions tbsy more approved has no antecedent
there Is nothing expreded 20 which il can re-
late.
But the two paaages under confederation con
tain a mott drea and explicit contradiction
In one we are told that our citizens are nst
divided in tyinabk--but only in name. In
the other, we are told that our citizens are di
vided into leas (which are always divided in
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time, and one of them had monopolizel the of
| fees Of government.
Your good genius, if you ever had one, GER
tainly abandoned you, when you wrote The an
fwer to the New Haven remembrance. You
mutt have written it without conlulting the in
augrral addrefs, and when you had forgotten
It's contents. The addrels breathes harmony
and concliation-it is predicated on the idea
of flight divifions between the citizens OF the
United States, which your mild and republican
Administration was TO heal. The an(wer 10 the
remembrance, on the other hand, avows the ex-
ltence of parties, of long duration, aud OF in,
veterate hoffiIity Of opinions and The exiience
of fach parties is offered as publication o.!
your removals from Office and new sppoiol-
ments, where no other PolIi5le rea(on could be
aligned.
Indeed, Sir, when men depart from the PLAIN
frait path Of iulfice into the crooked, blind
ways of intrigue aud party policy, and inaead
Of aiming,with Jingle eye, at the public good
confult their own private views, and rhofe Of
their friends, il is hardly pofIible for them not
II IL 1,cra H.