Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1802-12-06
For t5is 5a5rtts.

To 81 WeHeD:6sr effbe Copsy grTo,k,"
| SIR
read with no little aRoniihment, A
| production 10 Icnks' Portland q aze,te Of the
| lgh October, under your ignArure As the
piece appeared dtGGned % u4kr ar undue
| imprefion on tie o. Is Of thOie " freehold.
| ers," 70 whom il was addreIed take the lib
| crty, a one If them, 70 point out lome Of its
noenhaencit., and to detea II poih5,e fome
| of many INTERPRETATIONS. II, MIR. Well
wiiher. yeu wee EBccre 10 your wifhes I'd re-
! neFs harmony 70 this d,0raGted county, would
Il not have been better 10 have hsred the
whole truth ana nothing bul the truth, With
candor and mpsrtiali:y, and withou, loole
and indefinite lninnaiions What lha;l here
attempt 70 p, owe, iir, a. thar your l4tement
- at, iaserTe9-7d, Partial
| + IS msvreS7- Certain eentlnen 10 lori
and KiHcy. beng dillAushcd, cauled 10 be
| prepared petitions 20 tie General Court" sc.
| Good MIR w whe { IS your evidence OF this Z
X would require fomcthine more than your
! mere fugpet'on TO mslSe the frecholders of
this County believe, that petitions of a certain
dticripyion were tent them 70 aG upon and
thar they complied, withou; coHldering what
/ they were about. The Inhabitants of tixtten
towns IN the county, have been impoied on by
certain gentlemen in TsrE and Kititry." A
fine compliment, truly, 70 The good ienle Of
the county Of York Il Teens too, that "a hefr
petitions were fent 10 lome towns without
giving notice 10 others" TAis claule lctms
Iitle uninteIigble. Itwculd not Dc lubie9
of complaint that the above 4" erntlemen" did
49, e. ~
they give notice 20 airy. 1t mutt be your
r,raning, that the towns TO which the petit
tions were lcnt, ought to have notified the
other towns what they were about 10 do, in
ample form. Whether this. II true, be iu5-
ilanlial reslon for ceslnre, | leave for the
candid 10 Judge. All this, however, would
have been exonleab,e, tho incorrect and with.
cut any thing tc fuPport il, were i not for
the following lcntences--' Mon ofthc towns
! TO whom the petitions were lent, either with
or without notice III their warrants, adopted
the petitions TENT them-in fome. IL not moi
intiances, the meetings were very thin" -
This fatement fir, il totally uniounded Mott
OF the towns with or without notice Fifteen
towns peti,oned in tho fra iaitanoe, every
one OF which, except Lebanon, had notice in
their warrants, That town however, acted
on the fubje6t in 0bea melting, aad tho repeat
edY called upon 10 thew cAuis againll the pc
iitions, have not thought fl, either eoget7iVsty
or iaaiviarally, to make Jingle objection. The
meetings ware not biu-they were IHH Ger
tiicates have been feat to the General Court
from tho Sellamen of moll of the peitioning
towns, eating not Only the fullncls Of the meet
ing but the fulnels Of the v9e Not Jingle
'nitance has been produced of unfairneis in
obtaining vote to petition, tho unweared
pains have been taken.
! will not Prefume to impute TO you wilfu
INTERPRETATIONS 10 this extr40rIigayy Part Of
y0Hr Fzirzpsai-A want Of Information is e.
~ of refuge" to which you may refort for
protettion--C5Uity which hupcth all things"
may admit conlruftion, which j.fies ought
to rspel.
10 your fra paragraph, you FAY the quef-
ton Is not yet decided" Did you expect by
this, MIR. w. to induce belief that . leAjiss