Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1802-08-02

S'hS VI - S'Hi ! va y'dnu anc NOrtnCaTO!Ila,
han the bibl itleIf With what faoe then can
Thomas Jeiierfon, or his fycophant Importers
* for that reiped which he and they 10 grois.
ly violated in be perfons of Warrington and
Adams You will recollea that Mr. Isaerfon
read the proof fleets of The P.ojpsR before Us,
and WAS 70 plealed with it, that he could hard.
iy refrain bis Impotence till the editor for.
warded them to him. This had no doubt
OF foon after the publication Of the pamphlet,
but did not know till lately, that he advanced
Calender money to excite and reward him for
thus eliminating the Hero of Mount.Vernon,
and the virtuous Sage Of Quincy. Notwith.
Handing he l. now cloathed with public author.
ity, few perfons will be able, after having read
this infamous caumny, to fupprefs the feelings
OF contempt and indignation that will natural,
ly life in vrtuous minds, toward the man who
can aa 70 bafe and 70 infamous a part to thefe
great and god men.
One the republican papers, fince Calender
has deferted them, confiders him as a Eoundrel
that would dercy fbe reputation Of man or nancy,
and fays, that be Hndeyfand5 tie art Of failing tie
ebaratferJ Of 1Oorthy casa5 and qvants no tutoring
After being convicted in England and expelled
bis native country, for calumny and fedition,
and fter having lerved the republican fa here
and MIR Jeferlcn in particular, fix or feven
years, they need not have taken the trouble 10
tell US that he IS Sepndre, a56er Of cbar0aer5,
&c.-all this we mult have known from the old
Provefb, t6at man J knszvn By TIE company be
has kept.
hope, fir, that Duane, and fome other ou!.
landiih JfoundreL and fathers of the cksr0aeyt ef
eOorfIy ritizeos, with whom Mr.. Jeferfon has
had pretty clole connexion, will vet, ike their
brother Calender, repent Of their ways and
turn pubic aCcufers then our fellow citizens
Of Maine, will fee the true genuine charaqer Of
the man who has been imPoied upon Us for
Preiident-of whom, as faii in my 6rlt let
ter, the people are altogether ignorant
Upon the temper and difpoGtion Of the Et7, /
will only ado, that from the ouhs cf feveral
who are now among their leaders as we'll as
from others, have heard it contended that
JjyIpicion and .isaauG towards all contributed
authorities were duties, and the practice in
conformity thereto, rofe in the fcale Of virtue in
proportion to The purity, integrity and upright
nets their public truas were ditch argcd or in
o.her words, as there was no evidence Of milf
oondu6, there would be, il The mind, of good
repabhean5, the fronger ground for fufpicion
and jealouiy To this pitch of wicke jhefs lad
the Jea arrived before the election Of Jef4rlon
at what would they have fuck, 10 carry their
point? 1 know not the orator alluded TO by
Chauncy; but the fridures made on his per
torrance in he Chronicle leave no doubt in nv
mind, but he is man OF talents and worth
To be cenfured, in that paper, for the cauie and
IN the manner he has been, | cannot but look
upon as a very high enco MUM, and evidential
OF the orators being faithful preacher, and
true friend TO his country. BY The Itriaures,
it feems, that fome hing was ftid againlt athe-
ifm--a delicate fubjett indeed, in Preisnce OF
modern republicans TIE vulgar proverb is
no more frequently verified in the ordinary and
trfng affairs of common life, than in the more
ferrous traniattions of men" TIE bird thai
fatterJ II certainly arundel" Nothing feems 10
nettle and diure the je6 more efeetually than
for word to be dropped, in their company, a.
gsinit atheifm or irreligion !; every one pieient
Looks wild and fwears be is pointed at except
where their devotion to their leader caufes
momeneAry forgetfulnels of shemfelves, and
creates a bet er grounded iuipicion, from the
notoriety OF his character, that the coat better
iuits the Prelident Of the United States. But
whatever may I've the caufe, it is Gngulsr tact,
and pregnant with Rrong fufpicons, ;hlt there
IS comfortable affinity between the principles Of
the f7 and athsiin, when we 70 often find that
the Clergy, by preaching againlt that I'm and
general irreligi1n, never fail OF becoming the
iubjeets of their keenef rclentmtnt. 1t is iad
this firt ct the Attorney General Of the UNI
ted States aganlt them, and was the c4uie OF
his venting his relen'ment at them 10 bis tenth
letter under the character Of Farmer.
That many OF the leaders, in the ruling par
~, at this time, are inhiels, more or kts,
think Cannot be doubted by thoie who are &C.
quainted with them, and for the lat twenty
years have noted the court. of thsir fujies,
their turn Of thinking, their conversations on
religious fobjeas, their opinions touching the
founder and hrR preachers OF Chriaanity, It's
ordinances and modes of worthiP. The newt
papers too which they have patronzed, will
not Be omitted in this eRmatc; thefs afford
fone evidence agamt thsm. There are fever