Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-08-06
sos JssKs' rosrlAan cAzarra.
e fLdiN TRUTH csrsaie.r.
ELN-TsEKs, JoLY 80, 1884.

some periodical writer's Of eftvs have
complained as an hardnlip, growing or, o.
shcir undertaking, that thew arc often Obliged
even asai's their tate ADJ judgement, to trea
on iub,etts not fo much Of their own choice a
ghas they COMIC Cure necefary 70 pl-ai- thei,
readers, and Keep them in ccritant good HURON,
With the writer But you. fir, are nott hap9i-
~ delivered frcn fuch an cr,harrafkas isua-
ron tor your properly 70 wri,- tc,;,scsdr IS nc,
greater thaa the appetite of your readers isgrec-
~ to iS1uow th~n as readily as you Ia,'. pieaie
70 fend them forth. Were not this the CO... it
you'd have been almoa inpoia die, bur thar
toni- Of Your good ytpu5iraur, before this time
w.,nld have fouad it ton painful, any longer 20
lcitrain :!.er .ii;sl,ation at rhe fuccs.lion of
. taH-hoods, nisfatment Of faa.s, and difcolour-
lnc Of traniaesions you have treated them with
tncc you took the name Of pssia 7ru,b. Go on,
III; the liag arena is qoide tss,Yad before you !;
rainh;c at yolr p!eaiare fait-hood aud error
appear 70 be your chpice, and for thoie your re-
publican readers will never eeaEc to vote you
their thanss It il among the pecullarities
ipringns from, your EYy ootieas # Liberty and &.
Esah, that there is not yhc lcat polIi5le rsfcnn
alaacc between the cflssaee:f Of writer and
the name h- rieaics to adIn-. Why MY not
2 rogue take the mama of dri9ides they are
both mrn-thcy haye the fame rights and &C e.
G-~'}y tree Hence too VIC and the names
Ct Iato Mu.ius Srlroia, Numa, Cjccro, among,
ehe ancicnts and S;dncy, fianpden, Locke, z a
hundred others Of the noderns, affixed to pieces
81 composition Which only prcvethar notwith;san-
Dig their A5s,vy q equality in affirming great
names, they are perfect isranssrs to The Fixed
principles Of government, we'll 90 to the fen
riments and characters Q. ta- f1yyss whole names
they hare itoicn.
When we look into newspaper and find
three or four columns week after week, filed
BY pcrfon calling himic!f PLAIN TRUTH =
md letters addr fed, by him to the mott digni-
fed & refpc} able pcrlonages Of the counry,the
xrit imprcillon on the mind Of honeit men is
that tuch awritcr will not mock rs with his ue-y
sans, and, in the face Of the public he psetends
to initrnet, become continued retailer Of lies,
Nandxy and ca!aa,ay. Ills ignature ought TO
hsrs+srv-a 5ts.rxsrcc fur s1'rvgrirys Evcty
body acquainted with rLarcfssys and the yjfafi-
suenfs, habitualiy alociatcd with terms Of COM
p,on ufc will experience the seiag Of luesagsuity,
bordering upon ia1propricty, on feeling an ehay
ON the a,1sf ffddiig. iingned by EucLlp What
ti.n mutt be the [.nlations of an honel public
~ finding zfucceiIion Of /aloo7s with all the cir
cutnhanccs Of a malignant heart pairned upon
them Ny writer who ianpudent.y calls him-
felf PAN Truth =
1t begins to be pretty well nndcgitood that
the prefens dominant party htsraiiy lied them
{slves into power. and you as one of their mott
jealous partizans arc prastiing upon the old
proyerb that svbenevey tsyion tells ss< lie, far
Us immediate ;ntsrra, he Jons Of Ii, /1pa,fr,r
aai fieals nuf fsS,irate and pnbdG sav, mere 70
p,ats7 Tie fri, and 70 the geometrical rrosrefs
of falthood muf be perf-vcrcd in, or the lyitem,
whatever il may be, that is ereSted thereon,
will come 10 an end How for fuch lying fyi-
ten can be carried, where realon is left free TO
com5a, tits now fairly Al expcriaens III Amer
ica. We may. however, fay that il has had
much greater fuccefs, than, by reckoning isris,i
from the nature Of truth and man, we 1hould
have concluded bat this is a queil;on TO be de-
eided like mott others, touching on the diff
serent forms Of government aud their operation
by fat7s and not bv lpseulatiue yeafaaiag. Il is
fcs.ee'y ,cn years face the jSSfs(on taf7ian lct
this lyllem on foot againll the Warrington adj
miniGration, during which time we can trace its
! porrcis the dctai~ evidence OF which you
pay find in the Gazetre pubiiihed by Jeifcrfons'
Interpreter OF the Spanilh language, little be-
fore he reiigned the office of secretary of State
-ia the Aurora. publiGsc1 at Philadelphia =
Greerleals' paper at Newyork- the Chronicle
IN Bottom and ire p,elbeI 6stars rs, wrote by the
sstria. aud republican J.. 1. CaIiander, under the
auipices and encouragement of Jeherion. then
Vice Preident.
! doubs whether your party can boait OF q
;aorS ready AM better diipo.cd faal to iuppor'
thsir h.sg 6etm than youriclt, excspt the aforc-
said J. +. Calender, whom Jefferf,n pronoun,
esd the ad!sst man in his ranks. See their cor.
Jcfpondence.
| have been led TO thefc obfervations and re
aeaions on tie Ly3en, you appear pledgedto fup
port, and on your character as can collect it ou
pfths numerous eaays iisned Plain Truth but
more Especially by "A further pcrulal Of your et-