Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1802-09-06

war colt f-verkl millions ct dollars. Inc wei
tern exped ton colt 100000 dollars, or Tome
fuch fome and the hot water inlurreefion or
Northampton, SO. coo. The French and Brtilh
pracies deprived this country Of many millions
Of mpoa, that would otherwifs have poured
into the federal treaiury.
Tqosloesyears Of peace I Smith might as well
have fsid that we had twelve years OF
inceaAnt rain. or twelve years Of thunder
and lightning, or twelve years of IN earth
quake This Jingle impofure, this audacIous,
this more than common falsehood, NUT, of
itielf, be efficient, with every man of cardor,
10 afce'tam the genuine character Of the Ma
tional lniell;gencer, that fayorIte organ OF Pre-
iIdental imponure.
F,at7 Secend This writer has grofsly con
rrad6fed himelf. In his paragraph, Citizen
Stub born Fad' tell, US, thar the national debt
has been diuiniihed by the FUN oftwo millions
two hundred and iixty thouIand dollars But
in this concluiion, the Reduction is mounted
up to nearly three millions when, by his own
account, there is deficiency Of TAO. 600 dollars
Wherever Samuel Smith cas prove that f4osnty
s7vo and an b0f make NEARLY tbnty, hen, and
not till then. fhall we believe that he is an
editor of independence and veracity.
Faa 7kird.-If Nj. Jefferion has paid of
two or lhre- millions Of dollar, Of public debt,
he did e. with he money which tie brsceding
a4yuiniqration had coAt9ed IN TIE nca'Wy To #
cribe The merit Of this difcharge TO rim is iuf
as it we're 20 confound Napier, who dfcoverea
Logarthms, cr Columbus who dicoyered
America, with the malhematcian, or the
mariner, who at this day makes ufe Of their
dtcoveries If hd+ms had not f4ved thar
money, J Fer'on could not have paid i off,
Men Of Vrginia You have been too much
accuRoued TO hear only one iije of queaon.
we not launching TO wholefale defence
IT John Adams nor pei neil reprobation of
Ietferlon. We barely tell you truths which to
receive credit require only 10 tie peated. II
was not the wife and frugal meafures of Ieffer-
ion which pat il in his power to diicharge this
debt The taxes and The loan Of five illons,
had fiIled the treaiury.
Fac Foaub-As to the repeal of ali oaiou5
internal faxaii0n, the Camp duty and excite
were bad enough. We are extremely glad
that they have been repealed. But as for the
repeal ct great part OF a million Of doilars Of
taxes Mr.. JEFF on ihould have rounded the
iyltem by repeating the national debt TO which
his Brittlh convention his ADDED the petty sum
Of fix hundred 'houf4nd pounds aerliog.
How is the PRINCIPAL Of the pubic debt to be
diichargei, when yon have repe lied thoie very
taxes which were found necelTary for paying
the fater:F OF It? No wilderness of woods can
drown the voice OF This direct appeal TO com
mon ienie. Smith fAys that, in twelve years
OF peace, only fifteen hundred thoufand dollars
OF debt was pad off If thete had really
been years OF peace, as mott aiiu edly they
were not, then 1t would have been iua 70 much
the worie for Smiths arguments IF twsve
years of peace, and Of taxes, which were con
itao'ly growing more heavy. if All ihefe could
Giicharge only ftfeta baudrsd tbolI7nd doYars,
can any body believe that the remainder that
ieventy eight millions were ever to be cleared
off; or tia, three millions could be difcharged
BY the wifdom and economy of Jingle year
The thing is abfurd.
We are furprized that the Rockholders
do not take NOTICE of this repeal; and a.
dops iome efettive meafiires TO check its con
fequences. The firG and mott obvious mea
iure would be TO found Jfajona6k alarm TO tbe
Pt;Pe We NJ fanguine admirers of the
national debt OF the manner in which it was
contrseted, o. cf thofe heroes of Cock iobbing
who eraiped the greater part of it. Bot per
maps II IS better that we ihousd continue to pay
the intereit OF a bloated fwindled debt, than Ia
break up the federal government, and then be
gin TO break each others heads. Ii the fubjec
could be correctly explained 10 the country,
there Is among Os body Of citizens abundant
ly powerful for Tending Mr. Jeferfon home to
forge nails, and to fow turnips, at Mont cello
It is not here f,id that fuch meafure fhou,d
be embraced. We only fay that it may politely
hAPPsn and that if we can be farc Of finding
better man 10 fill bis place, it ought 10 hap
pen. We only lay, that no part Of his good
fame Can be reaionably founded upon this
indiicriminate repeal of taxes and this at the
momenr when he has been iuft adding tx hand
red thoufand pounds Rerling to the public debt
Two million fix hundred add fixty fix thouiand
dollars mutt be discharges, Immediately, by
lhres annual inaalmsn ts. THIS will afford a
comprehensive field for the confumption OF Re
publican laUizgs; although fome of the internal
taxes had Till been exaeted