Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1803-05-23
70 tie Eds9r 9ffbs Ahaalr Of f5e Timer.
EN- Tr1es, April a., 1895.

SIR-WtTH much pleature have
read feveral pieces 10 the " Annals Vt
The Times" calling the attention 4 The
peop'e Of the couoty of York 70 a l4ri-
Gus examination of The conduit Of our
national rulers. Ii ever there were
lime, fr, when this exh'rEation were a
duty on thole who obferve The diic1rd-
ance between the former projections Of
thefe men and their prefent behavior 10
their coritituents, this is the momcrr
and it ought not 10 be loft the ex-
hortation ought to be preae1 home
upon every mind, however inattentive
il may heretofore have been 10 this I'M
portant lubiea lean hardly coahier
any one as having difchaTged the con-
mon dnti=s all good citizs rs are under
20 themf.ives and their country, TIL
they have cauitd 70 pats in review I've.
fore their impartial minds, This coucua
and thoie projections. If th-y fad he
Enlargement / mention, let them en-.
Quire, for il concerns their m0f inPor-
tant political rights, whether it be the
rsfujt Of ignorance, acei5-nt or wick
eanel,.
If your readers hsve deire 10 b.
aided ia this enquiry, and b V rot
time t. 90 back Tor years into the pub
iic paper and documents Of various
kinds, containing the detailed evidence
relating to this general { tjetl, | te1
then 10 perufe aqein arG agan tbs
calm, corr-a hunters Of tie Friend.
HIS general obf5rya i1ns are ID, his
facts att f4bnantitl.y true, and IL p
ferences concluave 20 the POI Is u
reaed.
If the of1cial conduit of public char
acters is 10 be aiken a. the language D
their hearts, an at a lois how Mr..
JeEErfon and bis coaGjutoTs can be *
culpated from tie imPulation q ex
IRENE weakness, or the mot bare iac>d
wickedneis. The Friend, in Two OF
three of his elegant eiTAYs, has touched
upon f.veral inHances Of The conduit Of
standardization which 49, adopted by the
applaul,s of the whole republican par
~, and eviaced a very clear fatisiac
tory manner, their dupiieity and their
bafeneis. / hope he @il purtue the
courie be has begun and iiluttFate their
views and expoie the H1eans thay make
ufe of RI deiude the people.
When Mr.. Jefferion and his party
made thsir appeal to the people. q they
call his ee6tlon, againA the late ad-
miniHi alton, ard hated the particulars
that were Of isaionable, one would have
fuppofed The people, by tuning cut
that administration, tlnGioned the ap-
peal, and &c far condemned, IN the eyes
of The new decentralization, the couduot
arp aled from THAI the laie r, ha-
they cen Gncere in sHeiT appeal, or II
al ref eeted the voice OF tie people, as
they are always ptofraingto 80, would
not, on burning the dooTs e otIce,
have continued, and even a6ed over,
the very things i Y had bfoTe dsnrun-
eed as wrong Under their Predeseiiors-
And nov though The late stmnittra-
ton and their friends, aeerctPreolDded
from iuiiifying her condua notwIh-
Handing iuch a notification j. an i'm
piled csnfure on this fuppoied jddg m n,
vt The new administration, or Their
friends, cannot, upon any principles ot
h. nor or honehy, cePart from this
Judgment 81 The ptops in vindicsrfng
their own s6ions. he lac adminii'
tration and rs friends have uniformly
maintained that The people were wick
sdly imPoied upon and &c uded by Nh.
Jefietion's party and therefore the cleo.
tion of Mr. yeaerf1n Is 10 ole &c judge
the foundnels of iheir oohdn2 BY for
this party, being sgenss in the imPoh-
,ion, are properly precioded from TEX
ing any new grount let their condue
therefore, be tetttd by tbeir declara-
lions, in their opinion, Fashioned by
the people.
FnR-Who has forgot. or who can
forget the ciamor mace by this party
seaina ihe falaries To oAi5ers and The
compenfations 10 The Prehoenr, Vice
Prelidert and members of both hooies
Of Coagreis? How 4;tqueltly, ard
upon all occaions, did they declare in
Congreis and oct, hat they were too
Fsh ty one bird, and fone 10 much
greater proportion p How many times
lid fone Ct Jefrrfon's &C herents move,
N CongFefs, 10 lower their falaries and
compensation. AID hen they failed.
throw the blame Cd the fsdeIasilis. they