Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-07-16

1gxin, from the fame document i.e learn that
The f.eer OF AiArytAnd lead reprelen dshA-
s'''1''' : +; v,.,... {
Of Caro- ,ns,ss "a 40
-. q Georgia. g.
This affords incohteaitle pref that the FIVE
Rates above enumerated, are allowed above sae
ssiv6 m1re representatives to congrefs in p,gpw-
sga u Nxie aani5,,ss 'sxn,eu, than is allowed to
hlaHachnfetts-that a Vwgmis PLANTER eyib fpe
hundred Ravrf has three hundred votes more
than his Own, while the freeman ofMaGachuie,fs,
whatever may be his property, has only Engls
%fe. This IS allowed by the contribution, and,
had Vogiaia ufed power it'll the fame moder-
alton winch distingui.hed the policy Of MeEs-
ebxyftfs when fIie took the lead in our national
councils, the real friends of equal rights and
equal approximation, even at this day, you'd
:, have fabmitted to the inequality without an at
tempt 70 alter the eon:situ ion. So ineilimably
dear to them was this invaluable inttrument,
shat they fubmittad to an abridgment of their
rights in favor Of the merchandzcrs in human
blood, rather than eitablih precedent for al
teration or amendment, and they confcnred to a
provifion which gave 10 the fouthern fates 70
manifSf fuperiority in order to infure the eff
tsbliihmcnt of the contribution itlclf. The events
Of the Taft three years will, thew what advanra-
ges have been taken of our conci iating difpo-
&tion We have viewed contribution, once
tle glory and boat of Americans, trampled in
hc dult, and thofe provGons which fecure a
peoples dearcf rights, invaded by the m;niops
IF lsvery, and threatened with to.al annihila-
zion. We have viewed judiciary threatened
with abfolute iubjetton to delpotic power, and
privation os that independence which alone
Gan lecure the rights of life, liberty and prop
erty. We havs Gxn full treafury rAifed up n
the Injuries Of life by wife policy, which pro-
teGed induffry and encouraged enterprize-tue
s04v fee it, exhautted Of its riches, and its de-
foe driven to the hard necsiiity OF taking
bread from the mouth of labor"
But what language can delineate the true
fatures. of this degrading contrae. We are
compelled to witnefs the rapid hrides Of Virgi-
nia to abfolute dominion over the union. We
are compelled to acknowledge the diigraceful
truth, that our country is ,upder the controuI 0.
party, who, wh.le they clamor Hbe,.y, equity,
and the right of man,, their whole lives exhibit
the violation Of every facred principle, religious,
moral and political. Hypocriticai diiieu1olers,
perfeyering in the protection Of republican prin-
ciples, while ,hev hold their fellow men in the
CALLING chains Of layery
While they call 1.-The country "an afylum;
Of opprelci humanity;" they uic human Beings
As the yeomanry Of New. England ufs their oxea
and when they commit lyman 6ufc6oy the crime
i commuted by the paymen, otsa pa'try tine / J.
Thus sheIe faAs profsgors Of repaaiicarifi' have
eftablifhcd an ariifocrscy Of wealth, which bids
bold defiance to religious obligation, annIbilases
every moral principle, and every iaciai TIE, while
= professionally, opposition, aavery and muir
{ der. :s, ss +. = Ss5a,
Educated in amples of tyranny, and taught
eppresion, they would ettabii.hy and they have
too fuccefsfully attempted to extend, their pow
q beyond their own fate, and having already 10
much more than their flare in the goyernmenr.
are ftill making rapid advances towards COM
n.eletc fuprenracy. In this political htuaion, n
lence would be meanneis; inaesion would be
crime yette heeternal diigrsce of our coun-
: nv, we. 6nl many, even ir our own Nate, who
would bend their necks to rbe yoke Of Virginia !;
who while. they hypocrticaliy boat OF indie
pen lence, would eheerfuy content that the
hou,d reign over us; and itrangc as IT may ap-
near, il is ipcontroverribly true, that Virginia has
many Qasws among the .fyeemrn OF Maiiachuietts
Imprefed with theft momentoas truths, and
.infpirsd by the grca, object of till preicrving
an union of the eates upon found and JUN
principles, the true advocates of equal rights &
equal representation, introduced IN onr ttate
lsgflature, at their laftdeiion, and at length care
ried in fpite OF the influence Of layery,r mo-