Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser., 1802-12-27
CALLENDER rs. PAINE.

WITH all its energy and seuteneis,
Rigbfs Of Nan" contains much fafc
reaioning. Onc Of Mr.. PAine's favor
lie topics is the rldicule of hereditary
tight But iomc things that lcem abfurd
in theory are often very uleful in practile
Of the lmall portion of repoie that Eu
rope hath ever cnjoyed, great part
may be traced to this fame fooliih doc
trine of tsrsdisary right. 1t has, upon
the whole, produced much more good
thao harm. OF all forms of govern
ment an eie7ivs monarchy, is perhaps,
the mott wre,ched Witncis Poland,
Peyiio, aud the dynallies of Iad9gan Il"
The French rsformers difcovered, fome
years ago, that il was very wrong for
man and his wife TO live together, after
they had become tired OF each other.--
There cannot be a more beautiful theory.
IL was reduced 70 practice and France
already iufiiciently fertile Of proaitut.on
was Immediately filled with ltrumpets,
cuakoIds, baltards, and DIVORCES. Mr..
Pane, with great triumph, enumerates
the humber Of civilwars which have been
produced in England by hereditary
right. Very true But If you mag
have king, the chance is that there
would have been almolt perpetual civil
war il that king was to be chofen by the
people. Laugh as much as you pleaie
a. the conceit OF nations being tranf
ierred like herd OF cattle. But II
king msR be had, let him, by all means,
DC hereditary. Nolhing can be more
fallc OF ihallow than the ridculc which
has IN this iniiance. been attempted BY
Mr.. Pane
The other leg upon which Rig6f, Of
Man may be faid TO itand is equal repre-,
irnfatiaa Upon this fubl-a Mr.. Paine
did moi completely exaiperat- The Brit
iih But, in the preient cafe, The whole
weight Of his authority is TUNED agana
hipislf The federal government has
not hersaiiary king, nor a houfr Of
peers. The representation is about as
equal rs il Can be and yet Mr.. Paine
Iell';as that the friuop!5ef fEtrty euYs ex.
pjrny. We have neither king, nor
peers, nor rotten boroughs. How then
could theie principles be upoa ,heird death
bed and continue 70 for thirteen years
In Engiaod, Mr.. Paine held up Amer-
ca as the pinnacle Of perfection and he
gives as areaion for it, the republican
form of her government. Bur, when
he comes TO this country, the fairy fcenc
vanilhes and republicans are found to
be jul as corrupIible as the relt OF
mankind (! Equal rep.efentaIion is, ia
IIieli, a mott valuable and excellent
thing, and 70 is pure ipring water. But
the one will no more lecure a govern
menl from corruption, than the other
will give, TO him who drinks it. immor.
raj life. The evidence of Mr.. Paine
himlelf, as advanced in this letter,
proves that comfortable part OF the
Rights Jf Mar was piece Of grols de
ception Nor is there any thing in the
peculiar form of the federal govern.
ment thar makes it more liable than
others TO abufes. We have confiitu
,ions of all kinds. That of Virginia
is as democratic as any body can with
il TO be. Yet great part of its reve
nues have been waited in the mot fool.
| iih manner imaginable. Laws have
PaR, or been .fuffered to exit, that are
perfectly deilrudive to the welfare of
the country.
| If Two hundred years ago, the Brit
| ilh houfe of commons had authorized
debtor to ihoot the Sheriff thar attempt
cd to arrelf him ! if, when a mans fer
want IS hanged for crime. they had
burdened the public with the purchaie
OF another if they had faddled mer
chants aud (iorekecpers with an enor
nous tax 70 pay for building an armory,
that was wolfe than uielefs in word
| if parliament had framed fyilem OF
laws for projecting the property of
fraudulent bankrupt, they would only
have done what has been done tince by
The aGcmbly Of Virginia. They would
have buried the axe in the root Of ma
nulaaures and this the rotten borough
parliaTents did not do. They never
paa any law 70 like bcdlam, by.ten
thoHfand degrees, as Madilon's fchsme
of emancipation. or his gift 10 Congrefs
Of the North Wcaern Territory.
Pennfylvana has contribution great.
Iy difFelcnt from that of Virginia and,
'Ireser in particular to the hiaory Of Au.