Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-05-28
Portland Gaseffe.
MONDAY, MAY 90, 1904.

York Spectator 1t oud be known that the jubilee
propoed by the lrih runawsy Duane of Mr. LETTER.
tons editors, and the calumniator of W,tbiegos
The citizens of great part of the union, and
OF this city in particular, were called upon lalt
Saturday, to view icene, will venture to fay,
unexamped in the hiltory of the world The
inhabitants Of an extenGve, propulous and en-
lightened nation, fummoned by the proclamation
OF vile out-caft of Europe, to afiemble to cell
citrate an event deemed by the bcf informed of
our counirymen, as the greatelt difgrace that
could politely befall us-to rejoice at the acqui-
fition of an immenfe and uninhabted wider
neis, which will prove the bittereit curfe to the
United States. The mll-itone which hangs
around our necks will fink our government into
that dark abyfs which has fwallowed up our
choiceit bellinss, our national virtue and our
liberty. The impolicy of the addition of Lou
iiiana. to our already too exteniive empire has
been fully demonstrated The incalculable evils
which will flow from it have been fufIieenty
portrayed The impending defolution of the
union, an event fraught with the greareQ milf
fortune to this weitern world, and cirour1-
itance above every thing to be deplored, is view
ed as the inevitable conlcquence of the purchafc.
Many were apprehenGve that this event would
take place TOO foon without this auxiliary cir
cumitance. They coniidered the country as
too large for the operation of republican 60
vernment and taw or fanced they law, anar-
cly and defpotifm rapidly treading each 9TH
erS heels in their advance to overihadow this
land of promiie. Thefe fears and thefe expec-
tations, have long been in the habit of think
ing premature. l have thought them the timid
offspring of too great anxiety for the profperi-
ty of country, whole contribution is unparal-
leled, and whole government has been the envy
of an admiring world. have thought that we
were really" in the full tide of fuccetsful expert
ment"-and that America would thew that
free government might exit in its purity for a
length of time that it was impiety TO mention
the idea of a diholution and, that although
fuch an event might be ponibe, it became eve
ry true friend to his country to difnifs the idea
from his mind, and to encourage, in every breaf,
the mott enthuiiaitic wlhes to the contrary.
But alas thefe fine profpetts are over coudcd
by defpair, and the purchase of Loui6ana has
thwarted all theie hopes. Our national charac-
ter has been facrihced in the acquiGtion hour
rights have been tramped upon by the mott fee
bic of the nations of Europe, and the Golfers Of
the union have been drained to poflefs coun-
try which is worfe than WORTHLESS to US. Our
national debt, which democrats have long been
In the habit Of decrying as the greateit curfe
/. has been immenfev increafed, and this debt has
been funded in method which, when practi
cd by the federaliits was exccra,ed as an in
itrument to thackle the liberties of Americans
Our contribution, the bond of our union, mui
be violated to fulfil a treaty which demands thu
admiilion Of foreigners to the rights of citizens
and which claims the reception of boundef
region of country into the body of the union,
~. thing totally repugnant to its proviions. Thof
E,r1
too much power being given to the retident-
who have, in order to get hemtelvess into
odce, denounced the neceilary energy of gov
ernnent as the height of tyranny and who
to blind the eyes of the people to their nefarou'
defgns, have, under the pretence of becoming
the watchful protectors of liberty, revolutioni-
zed our country, and wheedled themielves in
to power. fay thcie very men, who were ft
very iqueamiih about executive power and exc
cutiye inhucnce-who would not deceive the
fovereign people for the world, have now, be
fore they are fcarcely warm in their ofcia
= robes. with their eyes open, with the cleareit
y denomination of the inconiiitency of their con
duct, and with the {" voice of warning" found
. ing in their ears from their federal opponents,
veited their meek and retiring PRECEDENT with
power perhaps exceeded by the defpotic power
Of Turkiih Sultan. Theie are but a very few
Of the evils which have relulted from this dem
ocratc bleiling. This is the event upon which
d.magogues and jacobins 70 enthusiastically ex
claim Eve will rejoice" this is the ocaiion
the truly iuterelting location, upon which We
are called upon, by the impud;nce of an Irilf
renegade to celebrate jubilee. If it were in
tended to fave over the wound which our ma
tionai honor has received, it would be pardona
BILE coming from from any other fource.-lf in
tended to raife the dropping fpirts Of nation,
weeping for the indiguities which il has receiv-