Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-06-04

When you fee four Of the principal officers
of the general government in this fate, by pro-
clanation calling mock general .afiemby and
therein and thereby CALM forth part of the
militia OF the tate to defend this their ailsmbly,
with mock governor and lieutenant governor
at their head marching with military parade,
in defiance and contempt of our own Legitimate
aiiembly, in their view meeting together to hear
all the officers of the fate government, from
the governor down to the lowet t,thing-man,
vificd and publiekly ridiculed, trampled upon
and traduced by one of theie four officers in
open day, all our laws, both civil, military
and eccleGattical condemned, and ielpifcd ana
declared of no binding forcr.--Speaking of all
our councillors as vile and deligning characters !;
all our judges of the hyperion, county and pro-
bate courts, and juitices, as under the influence
and direction of tholc wicked councillors, no,
guided by their oafh5 or the laws of the land. I
fay when you fee theie things, will you not top
and confder and ak yourlelves what meaneth
fuch proceedings 10 that end and aim are
luch tranfadions pointed Who is the direc-
tor What is his view?
No man will believe thefe four officers have
done this Of their own heads; without advice,
direction and orders. No man viii believe
they have had no encouragement or fupport
but what they have obtained from their two flu
| pid mock governors and the motley crew who
followed them. Be not deceived, paufe for a
| while and reflect ! think before tbs too late |!
the time is fat approaching when you will won
der, why you did no, aron,s
The characters of the northern and fou:hcrn
people are vaitiy different, as much 70 as that
of any two nations in Europe the manner of
dividing the lands from the beginning among
the fettlers, was totally diilimilar, and Of courfe
the feelings and habits mutt be different this
has appeared from the beginning of our con-
| neetion. That country was at flrit divided af-
ter the manner of Europe under fcudal infu-
ence- "A rich planter is yeited with right to
plot OF ten or twenty miles iquare, and all the
inhabitants thereon, are his laves or tenants.
In Ncw-Eng'apd very few have farm exceed
ing one or two hundred acres, and this the pro-
p'ietor cultlvatcs with his own hands and thofc
of his children Can the former clafs be friends
to equality, and the latter at enmity with il
No, this never viii be, until the order
of nature is reverted hence the Virginian
from the beginning has hated and defpiied
the Northern CHI. raeter, as much as the Turk
does the Greek. This appeared foon after the
connection. Their attack upon, Silas Deane,
treading him under foot until they drove him
to defparation-their treatment of gen. Ward,
gen. Spencer and others-their late attack on
Mr.. Adams, Mr.. Eiworth, and now of Mr..
Burr, and Mr.. Phelps fhews this for it makes
no difference, whether the man is federal or
democratic, the dueition is, does he belong to
the north and is he prominent character
They will agree that fo,ne old worn out man
like governor Clinton and Samuel Bihop, efa
may have an office, for he can be in no mans
way, and this ferves to keep the north faveet.
This fhewed itfelf in the army, as we'll as in civ.
il life Ia brave young officer in regiment raif-
ed by this fate, who fersed with great reputa-
ton, was promoted by rotation ina fouthern
regiment, the under officers received him with
cold and contemptuous .corn, and faid "thall we
be commanded by dad yankee mechanic
No we deipife it." A duel was foon planned
as proper mean to rid rhemfelves of fuch an
incumbrance. The young man bad fp,rt but
no friends with him. All we know of his UNI
fortunate fate is, he there ended his days and
his children were fathcrlefs, whether fairly CT
not cannot be told. ..s i. ~ ..s
The treatment received by a gentleman from
Mahachuietts, in debate on the Georgia bill in
the houfe of Representatives the winter paif, is
enough to aroufe the fpirit of our countrymen.
Although this gentleman is unknown to me
and his politics differ from mine, yet Irefent
the affront as offered 10 man who is my coun-
tryman, and had right by law. to offer his
fentiments, though they fhould differ from thofc
of our fovereign matters.
Lewis the 18th of France Attended the throne
near the clofe Of the 18th century, when
France was divided into fmall duks doms, prn-
cipalities and petty fovereignties, not unlike
our ftatc governments in America -Thefe fer
we'd as checks to the growing power of the
crown, and barriers to the liberties of the peo-
pie. He foon found means to remove thefe
feeble obitacles to his ambition. BY force he
joined the duchy of Burgundy and of Artois
to the crown, he obtained Provence by fort