Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1803-11-07

L0HJ1dhHa lfelfY, Y 6.--In the preced-
ing pGge we havesPiyen the treaty ceting
Louihaha 10 this country. II. has been
ratified by the Senate, but We have not
deen.a iyllsble of its difculIson before that
body. But there is We, a tribunal before
whichgit will be dilcuaed-we mean that
OF the public. The following obfervations
on the Iubjed are from the Ne2gsngia1,d
Reprrfoyy, .publifhed at N-wburyport- AS
they appear dictated by fpirit OF candor
aud Independence, We are happy in laying
them before cur readers.
F,em ile Ns4v England Rcpat@y
Ratification IF lie hsaty.--To this folemn aa'
which we acknowledge a the language of our OF
ponents, i. the mot imp otant which has ,ranfprsd
fnce The ea4bliih-ncnt Of our government, We beg
leave, once more, TO area the attention of our
Rcadsrs.
We (ha fubmit few reflections on this inter
ehing lubjed, in the ch&ratier of eitizsm IF Nsav
Englaad; for to Us this violent though doubtlefs
ptemeditatsd policy threatens, maj, infuies. the
snoa leriols consequences.
LET rs revert to ,hofe days when the prefent
form Of government, was propoled to the teverAl
conventions Of the Iadepsnl.at Slater. a THAT
line, as at every fuofequent period, there was a
certsn interference in The views and interes OF the
Northern and Southern States. It was great
otjet of the federal conpaSf to reconcile as far as
poiIible, thof- rriHg intereits, and rot only to
Embrace the rights OF all, but to iecuie the repec
tive 6hpencc Of The north and oulh on an eqaita
bic and pei manent saiis.
The population of the northern Rates being
much greater ia prop rlion to thar extent than
that Of the Southern, representation on uniform
fyaen deemed by the latter as throwing too
much inference mo the northern lcale. To rene
dy Ills evil, The Rates where the tenure of aaves
was con!ite ed legal, wee allowed reprelenta
ton in Coagrets for the blacks, as live to three
BY this deviation from the principles Of iePnb!i-
! can governn,enr that balance Of influence was
c,iyej to be adiuited, w'ich depended on the To-
cal dtaaton, The population the extent. and com
1.iercial intereas OF che REFLECTIVE States On the
prefervation ofthis equaebriur depended the hap
pineE which our form of governments WAS saieala-
TED impartaily to below.
Lc5G NEW ENGLAND, az TIE Co9TgS.
In It's courfe of years diieoliiion unfAvorable
TO the independence of this Eorthern States has
Been evidently iccreaIing in The national Legislature
The power of inltrage has at length become entire
Iy in favor of enc pair, and to complete the fatal
attack or he liberties OF New England, territory
81 indefinite limits, perhaps equatg the p'eient
domnioes of the United States, contiguous 70 the
h.aV ia "A
ened by local coniider atoms the representation OF
this country will coincide with the mealures dida
ed by the in,ere[t Of its neighbours, and New En-
Gland, humbleJ, over cached and mpotent, will
be bur pos ct eretersa sb in the national Councils
her remonatances f" hollow murmur from the
tomb"
Where IS the relation now, which fulfilled be-
tween The aates 1t is dsaroyed; and the treaty
be carried into effca il IS iIrecoverably loh. That
noble di.in,e eedneis of this part of the com mu.
nity which would have eserted every nerve, TO
prsierve the right of the fouhweisern inhabitants
by guaranteeing 10 them the uninterrupted navi
ca,ioo of the MiGR;ppi is repaid By an iohaious,
slough fpecous irAtagcna, whish isto hlence aud
d:,raje us forever.
The mode of reprelsnsasion foE the iouthesn
na,cs 10 which their filters in the north aiitnsed,
was adopted for the foe purPofc as we obg-rved OF
giving them due influence in the Union. Had
Mr. Adams and The SENATE in ninety eight been
dipolsd, and found it practicable to ca Oh af- No
va Scotia, New Bruniwick and Labrador, had
they divided them into States, and thus brought
ON the floor of CoogreG, aweigbt of iuHrsge e
dual 10 The whole of the louthern laes, With rival
;nterefs might nor, wcud, jualy be fAid, The
BATS on which the contribution was ratified vas de