Jenks' Portland gazette. Maine advertiser., 1803-01-03

/ 4'ldSit INhleis anI lL4 OuSil uHuS. It's
oonreAioE with its parent, it may titly
be compafed TO froward child. But
If the part TO be feparaied is 70 iituaied
and has arrived to fueh maturity Of
years, handing and dlicretion,
that il becomes matter Of great won
dermtnt, that il fhould have remained
70 long without flruP Cling fer indepen-
dency. the cafe is far olhe,wife- no
man in his fober fenfes would then op-
pofe iep4raiion after finding that de.
liberate and jddicious efforts were max
ing to accomplih it. This al'ution TO
the parent and child was frequently
and not improperly ufed in the late
conteft with the mother country Tor
| freedom and independency. BY Anne
ricans il was contended thar we had
arrived to years cf dilcreiion and ability
TO manage our own concerns and that
we needed NOT, any longer, the lettering
aid Of a parent ani the even, has am
ply manifeitcd the truth cf the petition.
The ereaiag Of Maine into an inde
pendent fate, has been matter offpe
| culation, with politicians of different
actes in the union, for many years paR.
They have calculated upen fuch an
event TO take place long before this re
rod. When the ltates Of Kentucky and
Tennefee were formed. it was matter
of much iurpriie with fouthern men
how it happened that no lieps were ia
ken or Propofed TO accomplish iimilar
event in Maine. Some attributed our
| fuPinenefs to natural phlegmatic in
ertneis, inppoied by them to be inherent
in northern contributors. Ii they
might be believed, the inhabitants OF
the north, in compariloa with thoie Of
the fou,h, are extremely deaitule of
genius, of fancy, taee, judgment and
| Of ability to forelec. and enterprize and
activity TO embrace mealures calcula
ted for the promotion OF their own in
teref-
The fra Genius was taken in 1900.
II was then afceriain thdt Kentucky
had tut about two thirds the number Of
inhabitants contained, at that time, in
Maine Yet Keetucky was, immedi
ateIy after, erected into leparate ita,e.
Kentucky has now been admitted into
the urion for mo'e than ten years
Maine continues yet to be mere colo
ny of Mafachufeits. II is not Ken.
tucky only which has aIilen to indepen
dency, and alIumed the reins OF GOV
ernmrnt for herfelf, and rank with
the other Rates Of the union bur two
others, llill more uncomfortable, have
formed thenfelves into an Independent
cy, and are equal IN rank and influence
in many cafes, TO the largeit and oldelt
Gates in the union--And yet Maine llill
| Plumbers.
But it is faid land with much pro
priety) tha; property and wildom are
to be taken into the fcale of coniidefa-
ton upon :his fubjea, as well as mum
| bers. If we have not wealth 70 fup-
port government, and wiidom 10 ma
mage IL, no one can deny but il would
be madnefs and folly IN the extreme &c
with for indepeudency. That We are
Pofhbly able 10 fopport and manage a
government, 10 body will pretend to
deny. The only 9neliion is how vel!
we are able TO DO it in ccmparilon with
other fates. In order 70 sn:wer this
quedion we mua conGd(r,frf The abili-
ty of iome of the o;her lt~tes Of the
union, and then make the compariioG
with Maine.
There have been three fa,es formed
Gnce the year I79e.. The fra was
Kentucky the iecond Tennelee and
the third taken off of the territory
northwea Of the river Ohio, commonly
called the Northweltern Territory
AN which arc inland fates, not within
five hundred miles of any fea po;t.
1t is undoubtedly true that a com
mercial country has a Pre- eminent ad
vantage over an inland county, as il
refFees an opportunity for the acquifi
ton of wealth An inland llate, hav-
ing no part Of it within FIVE hundred
miles of fea port, muft forever re-
main fecludeo from a commercial in
tercourfe with any other part of the
world. Such Rate can contain more
but farmers, mechanics and profeilional
men, and few bartering traders, who
are not often famous for making any
great addition to the general Rock OF
wealth in country. The mech anics
and farmers fuPply each other, and alto
the profeiiional men, with necenaries