Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-07-02

Il WdJ VIC ICiuit vi SOflNStlC4ls tJdt liz wa
the man bet qualified for the Officer No, if the,
regard truth. Mir. Jeferfon was not chofer
till the democrats in the !egifa,ure Of Virginia
waiting the event ey proonging the FELTON,, after
the completion of ali bufinefs, openly agfytsd, IL
he ilnould not be choien they would jSlsnny
pysaeanes TIE nntieat dominion ihdet~deat Of he
m;ioa. Yes, he was not chofen, til! fome of his
partifansin congfefs, at the time Of ballotisg,
boldly declared, they would rather cauic All in
teregnum, and at once hazard the exfence Of
the contribution, than his election fhould not
be fecured. Then it was that the federalifts,
aitonfl,ed at the audacity Of party, renquih-
ed their voice in the choice of chief mag
iftrate, prefering rather TO commit the contt-
tuition 70 perfons who had been difingui(hed
for their ennity to il, than afford any pre-
. tence, for a feparation Of the union, and the
fudden and immediate detrucfion CT this in
ftrument of their faithful labor.
No fooner was the pcrfon to be prehdent de.
hgnated, than, in the language Of every dcma-
goguc and fycophant, he profefles profound
thankfulneis for the reception of this teitimony
Of confidence, and pronounces that meafure of
grateful fatisfastion derived from the (ufrages
of his fellow citizens (he ought to have faid
the faves Of the fouthern itates) to be full. But
in the midR of fuch an effu6on of gratitude he
acknowledges his incompetence for the Office,
TO which he was promoted. Happy would
it have been for his own, and the reputation Of
America, had this fentiment always influenced
and fecludcd him from public life. The world
would not then have bcheld an infant republic,
running the road Of corruption with more hafty
ftrides, than the oldeR nations nor would it
have feen the foreign hirelings Of Mr.. Jcfsrfon,
vilifying the greateft and beit Of men, the faith
er of his country and himfelf at the tomb of
Warrington infulting his afhes by the hypocriiy
Of mock tears.
Let the candid and impartial inquire, wheth-
er fuch an election difpiays that intriniic worth,
which remains in obfcurity, mlefs fought after,
and preHsd in public notice. So far from it,
shis fcene Of mock patriosifm prefents man,
whole cxitfencc is only COMMENSURATE with the
uncertain favor of the multitude, and Whole ex.
ertions are all conferred in the prefervation Of
this phantom Of night, the BATS CT his fame.
There is nothing Of that independence OF mind,
the effect of uprishtncfs which moves in the
itraight line of duty, whether with againit the
wind of popularity.
Americans who glory in confcious virtue,
ought deeply to reject on the conduct we have
dfcribed. Its consequences may perhaps be
important beyond calculation for it was re-
ferved for Mr.. Jeferfon, frft to let the exam
pie of carving an eleetioa by intrigue. When
faction fhall ripen into civil war. AID .'sis n
-L--.L- r. .r,erH, ana zeal merit be banithed
from public life. if the patriot enquire the ORR
gin of thefe evils, he mutt be directed to his e.
lection an election faid by his friends to be
glorious, probably glorious only for the future
deRruefion of our country HUME.
More Vof~s-I nrhe laft received Charleiton
! Papers we end the following Vossys jutt arriv-
ed and advertifed for fAe at Public Vendue,
viz. 3o7 from Congo, 3s7 from Angola, and
FAB from the Windward coat Total 872 -
Whole purchafers will have weigN- N r.
election of representatives, to congrefs, and cleo
tors of preGdent, hyperion to that of the whole
town Of DunRabe in Middlelex county /!
Negro Rep,yfmafives-ega in.--The Chroni-
e whines about negro being reduced to three
6fths of a man.--Who rs it ler me ak the fenato-
rial fcrbber that has reduced them to this fate
Who are they who have made them brutcs in
nature and yet claim for them an influence which
only belongs, to freemen !-BeGdes by whom
will this unhappy race be relieved by their
own matters, who are rocked by layes, handled
by 1aves, and ierved by Aaves, in proportion as
they maintain an abioute dcfpotifm |? Are thefe
the men who will reitore them from their deg
rada,ion-who will forget their own intreie, and
Audy the happinefs of being they have made
q traSsablc brute Z No-rhis will be effected on
k6y the humanity of New-England men, who
have long oppoied the accurfed traffic in huma..
Aefh, which now covers the iouthern !tates with
indeiible difgrace. But our humane republic
cans with from the numbers and representation
of the negroes themieves to enable their matters
l.T~
ry m-afure which humanity might oppoie to
their dearcr interctf Hypocrify gives the negro
The name Of man, when The wifhes to brand him
with the famp of ilavery. Go on, good friend,
with your fophiitry aud lies ;-the miits Of de-
ception are difperti.g, and You may be driven in