Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1802-04-05

! It's pTQVt0ent ACTIVITY ana eXSTLlOD are OF mott
! impos j. 20 the people and we have only to
| compare the fate Of our country antecedent 70
its Establishment. with what is has been iince,
to be convinced that the moRpoperative caules
OF public PROPERTY depend upon that general
| government. 1t is not meant, by what has
been fad, ito intimate that the Rate governments
are not extremely uieful in their proper fpheIes
but the Object is TO guard againh the miichiefs
OF exaggerating their importance ia delogation
| from that Of the general government. Every
attempt to do this is, remotely, a tab az the
union Of thefe aates blow to our collective
exiRence as one people--and to all the blellings
which are interviewer with that facred fratei nifty.
| IF it Be true, as Infatuated, that Z our organ.
! izaton is too complicated--too expenfive,' p
let it be implied let this. however, Be done
in luch manner as not to mutiIate, weaken
and eventually deltroy our prefent fyaem, but
in manner to increafs the energy, and infure
| the duration of our national government TIE
/ RecK OF OUR PoLIrIcAL fSALvATfoN
| In this iulinnation, and in the fuggenion that
+" Offices and officers, have been unnecef4rily
multiplied - in the intimation that appropria
tons have not been efficiently fpec,hc, and that
! the fyftem OF accountability 70 a Jingle depart
ment has been diturbed in this and ia other
4 things, too minute % be particularized, we die
cover new proofs Of the diipotition of the preent
execu'ivy, uniualy and indecorouly to arraign
bis predec, hors.
! AS far as the mcfage undertakes to fpecify
any lntance Of the improper completely Of our
organization, namely, in the naance of he
4 judiciary eitabhihmeRt, the late naturalization
has been already indicated.
| AS to The "andze multiplication of Offices
aud officers" it is lubaan tally mifreprefenta
J ton, It would be nothing les than miracle,
/ is in fmall number OF intances, it had not
( happened shat particular Offices and officers
might have been difpeni with. For 10 the
early ed4ys of Of new governmsnt, in making
the various Embellishments relative to the affairs
Of naion, fome INTAKES 10 this TefpeR will
arife, notwithstanding the gfeat-R caution. Ii
mutt happen 70 every government that ID the
hurry Of new plan, foxe agents will occadon
ally be employed who may NOT be absolutely
neceHary, and this, whe there is every inclina
ton TO Gconomy. Similar things may have
happened under orr pat Naturalization. But
any competent judge, who will take the trouble
TO mice into it, will be convinced that there
is no jul caufe for blame in his particular
The proficient has not pointed out the cafes
to which he applies the charge but he has
communicated Information Of lome retrench.
ment which he has made, and probably Intends
that the truth of the acculaton lhall be infer
! red from this.
Three ioHanees are particularly prefanted +;
thefs fhall be briefly examined it will be fesn
that they do not fluffy the imputaton. They
refped certain miniHers at foreign courts, Tome
navy agents at particular ports and iome 10
A e., q e. IL, a
as to the 6rl, il is believed to be pretty
juR idea, that we ought not greatly TO multiply
| diplomatic agencies Three permanentones may
psrhaps, be found fn fficient in the future pro-
grefs Of our affairs for France, SPAN and Err
gland The expedency ofhaving thefe IS recog-
nized by the conduit of our prelent chief mag
| iltrate. But, Others mutt be employed, and
during particular feafous It may be wife to do
it for comfortable length of time. Indeed
| there is Rrong ground for an opinion entertain
| ed by very lenlible men, that there ought to be
permanent minifer at every court with which
| we have extenlive commercial relations.
Two other minilters were employed by both
the former administrations, one with Portugal
the other with Holland and it is afsrted with
out fear of denial, that when this was done by
| the fit PRECEDENT il was with the appreciation
Of Mr.. Jeferfon himfelf. One other minilter
was employed BY the late Preiident a! the Court
Of Berlin.
a commercial treaty with Portugal is admit
| mitted, on all hands, and for obvious realons,
to be particularly deGrable as very inter eaing
| branches of our commerce are carried on in the
| Portuguefe dominons. We till without
any fuch treaty. To lend 10 that court d.
plomatic agent TO endeavor 10 effect one, was
meafure OF evident Proprety TO recall them
before treaty had been effe6ted, mutt be of
Questionable expediency. The views and cir
eumRances Of nations change; and IA oPpor-
may occur, at fome particular conjun6ure, for
! effeaing what was not before peuible, which
may be loR by the want Of q fit agent on the
| fpot to embrace it. But admitting that the ex
| pertinent has now been fufHcisntly tried to jul-
tify its abandonment, Gill il does not follow that
il was unwilr to have continued il as lorg as il
was and as this mnR at eaR RET ii opinion,
the continuance, if upon an erroneous calcula-
ton iE this particular, is no proof Of : dilpo
fition TO multiply Offices or officers" And
thofs whe conGder the nature and extsat ofooE