Jenks's Portland gazette., 1802-02-22

3EArr1E.
DOCTOR MOORE, in his travels in Italy,
relates, that the Monks Of tnat country when
they are about to add new faint to their CAL
ender, ,inmmoaed flemn tribunal for the pur-
Poie Of examining the merits and dement's Of the
candidate and that, on one hand, the miracles
and virtues of the caadidste FOR fantlb;P, were
eloquently dilPlayed bv perlon appointed for
that end while, on the other, ard in order 10
gfvs tbe GeV1 fair Play, there was an attorney,
called be depiP5 04vocGts, who denied the merits
OF the candidate, vli6ed his character and en-
dravored 10 prove that his foul bad not really af
cended to heaven, bur was held in the dominion
& under the jurifd6tion Of the Priace Of darknefs
Now this whmical hiRory of monkih fuPer.
Hition has a very uletul mOrai.
The ofice Of allocate 10 bis Internal waiefy
has, by no means, been an excluiive privilege
Of Popilh couqtries. In republican Govern
ments where promotion aud power depend on
the favor Of the people, there has always been a
plenty OF IHcb a6y0cater, who have employed
lhemielves in defaming the moR able and virtu
Gus Statelmen and Rulers. Arilfides, the Gre.
clan General and Statefman, had mott deltrved.
ly obtained the name of the jga His wifdom
heroifm, InHeElble integrity and difintereAed
Patriotifm, had DILUTED glorious fplendor a
round his character, which the blinking oQos Of
that age, could not behold without pain: aud
therefore by inyenting and fpreading artful cal
umnies againa him, they blackened his reputa-
tion and procured his difgrace and banifhnent
Many inltances Of this kind are to be ieen in
the hiaories Of the ancient Republics of Greece,
and Rome.
But in no age or country of the world has
the devil ever had more jealous and faithful ad-
voca.es than in tbiS. The pure character Of
Wilmington has been Rigmatizsd, and there
have been imputed to him the bafelt of motives.
Jay, has been acculed of having been bribed
with Britilh gold and the yea repToaches up
on him have been poured forth, by certain de-
fription Of men, from one end of the States to
to the other. Adams has been upbraided with
the traitorous deGgns Of overturning the Con-
ftitution and introducing monarchy. Picker
ing has been reprefented as an embezzler of
public money. The horrid report has been
fpread over the whsle country, that Wolcott,
aud Dexter were copcerned in burning the pub
lie buildings at tbe city OF Warrington. Men
who have fought and bled to obtain and fecure
our national independence, have been called by
the spprobrious name of tories. The whole
body Of tederalias, though the warm and ftead
fat friends of our republican confitutien OF
Government, TO which, from the beginning,
they have cung, as to the nations ark Of fafety,
have been denounced as anglo monarchi(ts.
The New England yeomasry, whole hands are
hardened with daily labor, and who carry their
wives and daughters abroad and to church on
biili0g, are called ariaocrats, while the fouth.
ern Nabob, that rides in his glded chariot, at
tended with retinue of laves, or lolls on his
couch, furrounded and famed BY half fcore
Of fable vaifals, is, forfooth, precious rapubli-
can, iauneh friend of liberty and equality
While the whole country was in a condition
of unexamPled PROPERTY, the people were made
TO believe that they were oPPrtfsd.
When wheat was ielling for Two dollars a