Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser., 1803-01-17

H1Ios .1OfD Dsls coz.
SIR,
IL IS now no longer douh,fu, what
Piit The rfpajlieaa ia will take in
'he aifalr of the Prefident's bringing
into this country a drunken blafphener
OF the chriiiian religion. If Pain has
not been adopted into the Prelident's
council, he is made companion al his
table, familiar Allocate in his private
hours, defender of all his rneafures,
and continues his fellow labonrer in ca
l1mn,ating. WAsHrNcTox and Apams
have before made fome remarks on
he condua OF the tsS,upon their hear
iog i reported thar Jsferfon had inpit
ed tbis tlaptsmer to our flores. II will
not be foIgotten they deni d it with in
iignation and, for once, they realon-
sdjuifly, in the abltraH, upon the Zen
timents of the people, the nature Of
decenoy, propriety and the moral 6theis
in Actions; but JeFsrIon nor poieiIing
feelings corresponding to theie fsnti,
ments, to the decency and propricty Of
the coun,-y, or to the moral fitneis of
things, as they had allu med for him in
the argument. they were led inro a
practical error and they ought, if they
would be conGiient with themfs YES, 10
abandon him forever, But coniiHency
is NJ part of ra0dfrn republication
Upon the ground Of decency, were
there a report that JeGe ION had corref
Ponded with iomi of the mott abandon.
ed p,oaitrtes in Paris. and actually in
viied them TO come 10 the city Of Walh
ington and aHociate in TIE company of
his drawing room, would any BODY have
heisated in laying the thing was impof
iible a Every one, whether friend CT
foe to Jeferfnn, would have declared,
thai debauched as be might be, ye; lie
mutt have. TOO much refpea for the
general deeeney Of the country and the
feeling. Of his female vihranls, to Be
euiky Of. fush an outrage upon their
characters.
If we examine the principle 10 4 cafe
of mere PyePrist, of cordu6, not directly
involving fentlments 70 .hrong as dscen
cy, morality or religion, the relult on
all minds will be the fame Suppole
the cafe Of Pain had not taken place !;
and this am obliged to do. becauls,
Oh The r, lult of that cafe, nothing is 100
wild or incpafiltent wirh,the ordinary
rules and motives OF human action for
Mr.. Jefeifon TO do ! FAY were it now
reported that Jetfsrion intended, daring
tie next feiIion Of Congrels, to aa mote
philclophically than be had ever yer
done; and, 70 ihew how much he.
be above the common rules and maxims
OF civilization, he would invite no body
to his table but the mott dirty Of Eis fpe
cies, cilegarding all grades in fociety,
and that their rags and drunkenntfs, If
they were no. more than what ufually
attended rheir occupations. fhould be no
ettegna:ior TO hts tate or frnfe, who is
there that would think he esu4 be mil
taken in the man, when be iaid, tho the
Prelident might be very much devoted
to liberty ard equality ne4Axthe.efs a.ienie
of brgpriay TO the world, and ofhs own
dignity with that world, NUT make
fuch copdna irnpofble therefore the
report is vile scalumny p This is cafe
that ipffinges no law nor does it con
nea with the great intereas, Of the peo-
pie. IT'S Of liltle confequenre who
dimes with the Prefident, whether i be
Jack fbf Jfav<rger, or .AlIert sbs CtnsVao
They are both citizens and if the
former is not 70 elegantly clad, now, as
the latter, there was time when they
were riVai5 in rags and filth and after
1aek has ftirred np. an infurredion,i he
may find another Jeferfon who viii be
as ready to reward him for it, as the
Psefdent has been TO reward Albert
But-Is the negative of, the foregoing
iuppoGtions argued from feelings more
corgenial to civilized minds, from pin
ciples more univerfal or more dear to
the American people, than thote from
which the E3 realoned and concluded
that it was impotiible for the PFeiident
10 mpae aod bring to this country, at
public expeaie, fnch drunffn bLypberaer
OF the chriifian religion, as Tor Pain ?
And on the fa5bOod Of which report
they profsGsd to be williog to riik their
future adherence to him. =,
TO an!wer this queltion, and to IN
deraand fully the obligations Jcaerion
has violated, the feelings and ientime nts
~, - ,ha,,t.a on,ep,rt