Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1803-11-12

faction would appear in our country
and iucceed TO its government, in oppoG-
ton 70 the tried patriot(m, correa princi-
pies, and approved wildom Of Warrington
and Adams had we been told that thefe
men, as reward for their eminent iervi-
ces TO their country, would be branded
with the cPpTobrious epithets Of 'hoary-
headed traitor legalizer Of corruption,'
&c. and that they would be acculed of be-
ing bottle TO the liberties of that country
for Whole interelS they had exerted their
bea talents had we been told, in 1902,
that before the expiration of Ten years,
the then enemies Of the federal conlfitu-
ton, would fuccecd TO Eggplant its friends;
that by aattery and hypooritical projections
the more eaiily 10 accomplish the work Of
delrufion, they would gain the afcend-
ency of power, that they would adminC.
fer the government under this very con-
(titution, and be fuifered to waite its en-
ergy and dellroy lis vital principle by the
facilitating effects of democratic improve
ment, we hould have been flow to believe
we hould have faids the people of this
country are too enlightened, they are TOO
virtuous to fufer thefe things But there
is definy which ihapes our end We
truf that the protecting arm of provi-
dence is not vet withdrawn that the
power which has Prefcrved us in the hour
Of danger, will again be exerted, to pluck
Us as brands from the burning
That Sempronius, the Roman fcnator,
was democrat, is certain: Indeed no.
thing more concluGve on the fubie6t can
be wilhed, than, his reply to ,Syphax, on
bis expecting fear that Cato would DIFF
cover their frauds, unle(s they were COW
cred thick with art -
"Lel rae alone, good Syphax, Iii conceal
My thoughts in PATTON, Ctis the iurea way)
III below out for Rome, and FOR my country, +.
And mouth at Cpfar I'll fhake the lenate
Your cold hypocrly's ,ha!e device, .;
trick Wcu d n thou be thought in earnen !
Gothic thy feiend zeal in rage, in fire, in iury!"
T., This, too, is the language of our mod
EN- demagogueS they below OUT for lib
crty, equality, and the like; they fand
forth the intrepid champions of the feopie's
rigbfs--and, yelling their detefable de-
iigns: under the garb of patriotic zeal,
! they rife to power on the ihoulders of their
mifgujded followers but when the hour
Of detection fhail come, when the hearts
Of the honclt but m(guided victims Of
their craft lhall fl,rinl1 from executing the
tacreiigious deeds which ihall be propofed
tothem then will tl1efe dihntereasd batri-
cts calt them off, and with Sempronius
eXctalm- r. ."t' n
Know. villains, when fneh paItry naves prelume
To mix in treafon, If the plot fuccced5
They're thrown neglected by: But if ii fails,
lhey'e iure to die ike dogs as you n,siI do. r
Here, take thrfe fataious u,onaers, drag EN- forth
TO fudden DEATH. .-i s:-..r
r. Whether MFR. Callatin (SemproniuS
like) deferted herpeople, whom he had
deluded into the wetern iniurrection,
when he found they were like to failin the
execution Of their plans-let the impartial
pen OF hifory record. -Cbarh. Coar.
..e>~ .- II,
In the National intelligence, the Pref
dents paper, under "a defence of repub-
lican governments : letter the ilxth,' is
the following paragraph -
8 1t is the policy and practice Of monar-
cbiss and arj2orracie5 to conceal the inifia-
fioa Of the public acts, ard in mott cafes
the grounds on which theya taken On
the contrary it is the policy and practice OF
republican govsrnmeat to esbDfs their proceed
iags in all their fqges, and only in a''te~
initances and for a fhort time to conceal