Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1803-01-24
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SEPARATION OF MAINE

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Parjsa. Well neighbor Steady, | fee
the f-paration buGneis is begun again
Have you hgned tie fu5leripIion
paper yet'
Farmer. No Sir, I don't feem to like
the notion Of being iet oif-I guefs us
iome fea port plan. Why what good
will it 90 us 70 BE- made a government
by ourfelves
P0,f7r. That cushion | will anfwer
preiently-but il the iiif place with
20 ak you two OF three qnsiiions.-
Pray tell me why you fold that hund
red acre lot the year before lA} 10 MIR.
Thrifty ?
Farmsr. Becaure il lay two niles
from the rea Of my farm, and il was
inconvenient looking after 1.-THE feaces
would get Gown, and csttle ct ii,
aud could never make ir Frodnce
much.
Parfn. But it produces good crops
now and the land f1ems to be COED
how is this, friend
Farmer. Good rearon for it-Mr.
Thrifty lives on il--has houf- on it,
and has it all under bis eve. and he can
dung il and keep the fences Up, and
there is 2 great deal in thar.
Payj5n. That is very truc-Now |
confder the Diliria OF Milne at this
time like yonr hundred acre .o5 before
you fold it. Cor Government is al a
great diilance irom us--Ihe public OH
GERS are al in BOi}on-,his part Of The
Commonwealth IS contitered by the
other onlyas 7cs0d isl mile or two
diitint-they can 90 without US. MI
merous proviiions might b. made by a
General Court amesg Ourfefrss that
would greatly improve Our htuation
and en,ich our Dllritl-but It's with
the weaern part of the Government as
il is with the great body Of a farm, it
takes up the chief time, care and at
tention.
Farmer. Why there is fomething in
that; but then, the General Court at
Bolton can't make laws for Ii mielses
only-we fhall equally enjoy the good
OF them.
Parion. Psrhaps not-ihe Gate Of
iociety is different hare from what it ! 5
there that Is an ldfsttled country, ar
leaf almoa all Of it-ours is a new
country. They are Iich--we are not
for 10 fpsak in the language Of
farmer--f5ere the foil is of one kind and
requires ore kind Of cultivation and
management Lere il is Of another End
and requires a different management.
There is nothinglike living on the land
one's ielf- no hing like having aCeneral
Court in the midi Of us-to te--to fri
aud to rtnio0s our wants. Depend on
il, nothing ihort Of this can ever do 1t
etIeaually.
Farmer. Well believe You are
right or this point but, dear fir, it
will coa fight Of money % make aud
continue Government az our own and
Our taxes are high enough now.
PDis1. As TO the expen1e, We pay
abour a fifth part of the expence Of
fuPporting the Governmen. Of MaG,-
chufetts, and all It's officers If we
were ieparated, we mould want only
TIRE Judges Of the Supreme Court
and now we have forr. Al falaries
except thofe Of the Judges might be
lowered, and then the difference in the
expence would Be very tritling. And
further, you will remember what you
faid of Mr.. Thrifty's dangiag his land !;
if we had Government of our own,
thoulands of thofe dollars that are now
fent to Bottom, would Je fpent among
ourielves-that is, we honid dusg our
own land with it.
Farmer. / mutt Gay this looks fome
thing reafonablc but after all | don't
know
Pa,Ea. Yes, bu, you dc s1ow, that
if your farm is the better for good
fence and careful cultivation, you would
not hsittate, to make the fence and do
your bef, becauie it would cot fome-
thing-no, my good friend, you know
and do bctter than that comes 70. But
l fall tire you'll will make one more