Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1802-1803, 1803-02-21

AANN a az ta+4l@ A- l@AA % EftA@1L
# religion. aal Of eourle the f.ekiog
~a1 lI5p3-ing # able tel-h-rs Of III
leuru'nItiOn..
GaIachaf-us formerly chsrilheI with
us i.a cares lief. lourd4tians Of her
g.o-y. Learned mini1ers were Brought
over with her 6rl founders, and a col
l,ss and lchJols foon provided; auI her
eoahi,uiion AMI avs DO 10, now toler
Ate our utter negle2. She has endow-
ed for u5 a college and academ e., and
iAc tends many miiI0oaries and books
inro eur Je.titute parts. VIII Maine 10
lti.l better hope il viii, as 70 many
events have arilen IN our tines 10 thew
TIE Jolly Of building government on air.
WA,n Rhodeillnd went OUT from MAJ
iachuigtts, ihe would have no laws for
tuch pnrpoles he thought fh= lad TOO
much Of the lpi.;t, to need any means
Of ilirua'on. What was the conf
queace Of this error? IN IN. lapf- Of
two or three generations, their Lords
DAY became Virginian. To FAY nothing
ct The maritime toWrs, which conaant.
In exchanging their inhabitant. with
the reR ot tie colonies, and receiving
emigfations from olher countries, BE-
came like others; but in the mott int
rior parts, where w NUT always look
for lhe mot ancient inhabitants of eve
~ eounTy,you might fee horl.. racing,
cock fighting, nan-6ghting anu every
egcels and iIot, On the Lords day, a
morg the young and idle-the avari
ciops at work--lnd once ia great
way, N old meeting houfe, equal to
common barn where few old people
Rill met to tel their dreams and fan.
cies. Scarce one ofthele people could
read; and they were generally as poor
and vicious as ignorant.
Z. Next to tie public inaruftion IS
the a5minifraIion Of julice. | fay
next, b-caufe government in the for
mer, appears as father who leads his
ehildren to Piety and virtue, and forms
them for a uGeful and cheerful obedi.
encs, which is certainly to do more
than the agent who only punilhes the
delinquent, watching only for evil in.
head Of producing poilive good
Thele courts have bsen foppeJ in Maj.
lachufetts; they have been only threat.
ened in Maine but there is a fear,
that men telling and living by plumber
and training up ! brood without Gchools
o. iober religious inirudion, through
the midR Of our country, may greatly
mar our beauty if NOT difurb our repoGe.
| will fay nothing Of the agrarian
projects and frauds ii Vermont or
Vermont made one tax, all on land, and
equally on every acre in the whole terrific
ry; icven eigths probably owned out Of the
State 70 pay All their debt, or in other words
cal il an there paper money. We may guels
al th1 GCiign Of It's projectors, from The valf ef
sieGt. althotJthe majority, nothing dihonea,
might al FRI appear Their paper, which was
IN Gttle credits account oftheir ufurpa;ion. &
lying out Of the confederacy Of the S. stes. had
remained dead on heir hands, was bv This tax
at RATED 10 half the value OF Givtr and gold.
Btfdes il gave them the opportunity Of bid
ding of, mott Of the nonrcGdent lands for
nothing but the tax Advertised only among
thenlelves, iredeemible after fix months
Andtk sleisnds we're TO be fold for mere lono.
by every body, every where and no wonder
needy EN- grants fooked that wav Beiides.
taxes we're made light their public debts
had been all paid Il one Aroke and that
itruke had enriched ;hen. And now. havine
been refuge for debtors, during the war,
thss refuge was prolonged by sender acf.
Beiides tholc caules Of population, they were
much handler TO the more agricultural parts
OF New England, than our wi,derntfs lands
And where their neighbors and relation,
were gone. il was natural for other emierants
70 follow and the cream flowed on. until
on the rich plains Of the Connecticut i
reached the Canada line, which comes far
down that river. This ltream is now turning
into Maine. The prejudces which sxiled
sgsnf our foil on account Of rugged coaR
fttted irft Tor the iih and lumber trade and
navigation, are dilipated ;-and nobody Is
aihamed Of the county becaufe it is a part
Of MaflsJgfhI A part, which in a few
years, would have the feat Of government one