Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser., 1802-12-13
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M-TxEEs, 9th Dc. 1902.

SIR,
SELFLOVE is not more quick
lighted in apProPria.ing every interea
ing c'rcumhance TO ITS owu advantage,
than it is aftive il repeilng any Incl
dent. however fmall, that may annoy
lis happinels
i'ho this has been taken 10 be uni
verbally true, yet, in high party times,
when We are formed into clans and
contention grows warm, it admits If
ieeming exceptions for jealous party
men think more of thsir leader, in
little things, and matters Of opinion not
Immediately connected with properly,
than they 90 of yhemIelves. l. th-ie
cafes we identify ourielves with the
charaa.r of our chiefJaia or fuffer
ours 70 merge in bis fo far as 10 life
or own ienhbility Now a days, a
gooG retu5iean heels not the charge of
deilm or irreligion brorght againR him
ieit, bar Teients Il even 10 anger when
be fulpcds, is meant again0 his favor
i,s Isferf,n-J Jef-rlon is hi, only organ
of fehi4tion. He is like iores TO our
bodies, or a wounded limb every
thing hat moves feems 10 touch Us in
tho'e tcndeT places. This principle
was mof frikingly verified fome years
ago, when the rtp95lican party in this
country had "a identified themftives and
the American nation with France, then
Iheir dear hller, that on It's beng faid,
IN Congre!s, tti5 7ga5 fbe rrsf Enlightened
fe2be o. sar:b, al! the resu5fcga nrmJeyJ
Toie, witA one voice, aud fzo,e The
.ah-rtion was falle, and an iufult TO the
FienCh b nation, for France was the mot
Illuminated people IN the world, that
no other p-opIe were to 5e &C npared to
them either 10 knowledge or pure re5zb
hcaniiiH, and that We ought Away, to
acknowledge the French TO be our iu
Periors in every rebgthraa virtue.
Upon this Pricipl= Of felf annihilation
before the obiea of ador alton, foi it r.ever
ought 10 be produce. but when man
compares himielf with his Creator, did
the rfPH4ltai parry juQify the condud
OF France towards this ccantry 10 al
the rapioe and depredations of our
property of which variety Of pa ticu
lar inaances might 5e adduced-Thr
whole c0nduf Of Citizen Munroe, dur
iog his million 10 France, demonlirated
THAI he lot fight of his own country by
hi adorzton OF the French-FIe con
hdered that nation as every thing, and
ms native country only fecondaly to
her interea.
The conduit of Jefferfon's friends,
when i was fra reported that be had in
vissd The infAmots Tom Paine to return
and continue his la5ours in this coun
try, ihews 10 what light they confdered
the a6tion, and how much more they
were concerned for his reputation
thar their own oharaaers, 1t has
never been known that any of the rrba6
Aca1 Jf.q are 70 fcrupulous as to reiuie
The merit of vi;tuous action, tho they
were not the authors of il. Their con.
sciences are not didurbed it they can
get The pralie Of an action, tits all they
care Tor and no matter, with them,
who were the real agents.
1t cannot be forgot that mott of the
preient naturalization and the republican
Jsa were oppoled equally 10 The Conli
tuition and 10 l.e administrations under
1t; bur TOW they are very fond of re.
oeiving the prafes that arife from the
beneficial operation Of both. As an
iaitance ofthe lat,er-the fhips defined
ter the protection Of the mediterranean
trade had hardly got under way and
Left our COATS, than the fycophants Of
Jefferfon began 10 give bim and his
anti-commercial aaociates the nhmerit
ed prAiie cf beiag the defenders of
trade, and The friends Of ar American
Navy. tho it was perfectly known to
every body, and they were confcious
of 1t themielves, that every one of them,
and almoa the whole fa Ieproha.ed
every mode of defending our trade and
navigation, that included he ufe OF
thips'; and had cPpoied. to the upmol
of their rcsver. the building navy,
from the laying lie fira keel, 10 launch
ing the lat IMP, under tile late ad-
:nniflra,ion. Where is their modely
ibey Lave good flock cf impudence
leo Of that vrtpe.
Il i The in2u!ar coed fortune Of The
Fr.lert a~:nilia.a'ioc, to reap where