Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-11-05

hirs:on and Adams OF tie l@aurels ola well car
ned fame, to cncircle his temples. Ihe arts Of
rhe deragogues with not avail him. His char
aGter viii be iuhly efimared. He viii itand a.
.pong the multitude of national deceivers.
The PRECEDENT DIES not forget to declare
he amount of the national debt, he has eau.
fed to be paid, He even repeats tie amount
of ditcharses Of rhe !a6 year lhppoGne that
the furn Of payment of the debt FOX two years
would be mere agreeable to the comm auity,
than ar, uaembeliif.ed account of one !; OF
preiumiug the people from weakness of rec
objection r,ight be ignorant of the payment
Of the proceeding year, .unlefs they were a.
gain informed of it. Whether thete reaiops
may be aligned as motive. for his conduct,
this at lcatt is evident, that his darlittg popu-
larity is the governing principle OF all his ac-
|tions. Seldom has he done any thing, in which
this trait in his charaeter is not prominently con-
lpicuous. FIX p2op,c arenex. informed )" that
they ought to merit the character Of a iuit nation
and maintain dat OF an Independent oae, prefer
ing every consequence to initle ard Ia bituai
wrong.' The icntimen, in the tirft par Of the
%ien,encc is correct thar, contained IN the AZ,
would have been more the language Of a man,
CONTIGUOUS Of the arengtb and affection Of tho!c
whom he governed, had it nor been qualified
by the term haTtnak On Z fight view i ap-
pears ipecious, yet it will admit of a c~ohltruc-
ton. which will reconcile the actions aud opin-
ions Of the PRECEDENT .Giould he even diauadc the
ufc of the means Of defence to repel an attack
of an enemy. Spanih depredations On our
commerce, occafionally made, are not habitili
wrong. Our /" conciuiion' from New-Or-
leans is not habitnal wrong. The deitru6t on
CT our property in the Wea-Indies by Frcach
pirates is not habitual wrong. 1t is a maxim,
which, it known to be ii principle OF our gov
efnn,rnt, would invite the avaricc and and am
bition Of ali nations. In ihort it is a maxim,
worthr the courneeon5 truue, and m4,gnani0n0us pi-
Ri Of fir. .J6trloa
"Separated by a wide ocean fron, the na-
lions OF Europe, with productions and wants,
which render our commerce and fricndihip
ufcful to them, and theirs to MS, it cannot be
the inteseft Of any to afiail us, nor ours 20 DIFF
turb them" Does no. then the executive know,
thar the pafSons of men frequently prevent
them from purifying their true inteaeit that a
defre of the polleE,ons of other often prompts
them to commit i~niudice , This may be a beau
tiful defcription OF what mer ought to be, not
wha, rhey are. Real life prefents a far differ
eut picture. Inc contemplation u a. doitide'
!" peri stability " Of human nature may be de-
lishlful to a mooern philofopler, an enthuiia-
tic fcepric ; put 70 adopt it as a rule in nation
al government mutt foon be deitructiye to ua-
tipn,i exiaence.
Ne have now merely .noyiccd The mon hsi-
king parts of the meilage a more ample
diicufion of it may be the part of an ADLER
pen. To thoft, who know the man, a general
deicrip,ion of it may eatty Dc given. 1t is fuf-
scient to fay, that, it is a meilase Of Mr.. JET
%ferlon.