Jenks' Portland gazette. and Maine advertiser., 1803-09-19
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IHE friends to the following petition,
now in circulation thro' Prince Georges
county, Maryland, for the fgnatureS of
the citizens, Gncerely hope there is no in
decoeum in thus giving it publicity before
it is Preientsd to Congrel5.
7o Re Honarajs he SENATE and Houc orPesrelnfati.s
9'Le Ulifed gtate:, in Co4grsG eg:m5tA,
The petition 81 the inhabiYnts Of Prince
Georges coun-y, and fate Of Maryland,
humbly ihewell, that your petitioners,
feeling the right offreemen to he exerci(e
of opinion, and the conltitutionai privi-
lege Of Americans to remonnrate to their
rulers cannot forbear at this time to, ex-.
Prefs their great fenGbility and alarm at
he very improper. interference of many
foreigners who have come among US, both
in our political and religious infitutions.
The hjltory Of Europe for the lat fifteen
years is an awful admonition to American
innocence, and warns is to Be faithful to
ourleiyes. While we make cur grateful
acknowledgements 10 'Omhipotence for
the fngular exemption Of this country
from the mileries Of Europe, and contem-
plate our unexamPIed prolperity, the re-
feeling mind retraces with horror the
bloody footfePs of men who have uicra-
ted to this once happy land, diGeminating
the very principles which have produced
tho1e mntrieS. We have Geen the unwea-
ried exertions Of fuch foreigners 70 ar
range our people into parties, and inAame
the public mind, BY means Of newspapers.
We fee the prefes generally in fuch hands.
We have feen the. American nation inGult-
ed by indecent petitions at the very laf
lelIion of Congrel5. We have leen their
attempts to degrade our executive by die
tatorial memorials on the fubjea Of Office.
We have feen. the whole mercantile clafs
Of our citizens branded with infamy. We
have leen with comfortable alarm their
5eigns to overturn the fy(tem Of iuriIpru-
dence in Z filter fate. /. We have feen with
indignation and recruitment their daring
threats Publilhed in the Aurora paper, to
deter free Americans from the exerciie Of
the right Of fufrage at a public election,
and we fee with inexpre6ible regret that
fuch men have wormed themfelveS into a
participation in office. The patient fuf-
ferance of native citizens under fuch a
train Of indignity and ulurpation, your
honors viii believe. is frong evidence Of
our forbearance and love of order. In
the fame fpirit Of humility we DOW ak
from our government the conftitutionaI
remedy againf fuch enormities. Your
petitioners fincerely with their complaints
could ltop here But Whit the conduct
Of fuch foreigners, in thefe particulars
only, might be accounted for in their &C
knowledged confempt-their known ha-
tired for native Americans, and their de-
fire TO acquire wealth and influence, their
attacks ALTO upon the Chrifian religion,
gives il like the parts Of great machine
put together, the form and ihapc of a
lyifem. Such fyltem exilted in milera-
bic France, and could not be dinolved but
with the blood of millions of men,. We
hold thele truths 10 be inconrovertible,
founded in natural reaion and the fad ex-
periencc of ancient. and modern times -
That the United States ought 70 be gov
erned exclufvely by native citizens, and