Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-10-22
FOR THE GAZETTE.
To The Fysems1 Of Lincoln Diari5.

ioneering communications reipr6ting the con-
preiTionalcau for Lincoln Dlhriet. The
only charge adduced asainit col Thatcher is
that he is lawyer. was he not lawyer, when
he received 20 large flare of your fuhragcs
at the lalt election Aad were you ever more
faithfully ferved by any lawyer or any man !!
He has ranked az Wilmington among the liris
fedeYalitts from New England, and do not fay
I more, than is true, when declare, that his
ipeeches lait winter were hyperion to thoie
of any member from this fate. Our friends in
the other dtri6ts Of the fate are exerting them
felves to have an efficient experimentation, and
iliall we gect the man, who has done us 10
much honor In Bottom the hon. Ioliah Qain-
cy, and in Hamptbire, iouth diitriCt, VIM. Ely,
both well known and eloquent defenders OF the
rights of Mafachufets asainit the all graphing
infatiable ambition of Virginia, are nominated,
and we cannot entertain doubt, but the caufe
of freedom and Of truth viii fccure their cleo
zion. In the next oongrets we are fure of the
ardent and powerful eiosuence of Bayayd and
the cool calculations and irrefifible rcafonlng of
( GyitaO0id, and is this the time for Us to divide
: nd weaken our force?
! but will examine ore or two afertiohs OF
thofe, who would influence you, fe low citizens
would betray your intereas. You are directed
+. TO vote for man, who is moi. active, violent
| and uncandid democrat, as are al apoitates,
| ly becaufe he is merchant. You all know that
| our prefent Representative is the firm and en-.
| lightened friend of commerce, acquainted with
the intereas Of the United States generally AMI
the ftate of bis own dtriGa particularly. He
uniformly fpoke and voted againit any meat
ures injurious 20 commerce, introduced by the
planters of hs fouthern ftates, particularly that
under which we now fuffer, an impoiiticn
Of two and half PEI cent. on foreign imports.
| But there i i'll the publication allude to, an
| infam nous mfr epreien,ation, which has appear
! ed more than once in our jacobn prints. You
| are TOLD that you mult no, truit cci. Thatcher,
! becauie in the prelent ccngreis there are but
1 tzu2 merchants, and forty four lawyers, while
there are but ninety feven Of other projections.
| You know that the majority of the prcfent
congrefs are denocraticai, and if any meaiure,
injurious to your interefts has paaed, it has paf-
fed by that very majority, who are opposed to the
welfare of this fate, and whom col. hatcher
has uniformly rellted. You fllould now there
| fore exert all your power to lecure Federal
Representative, and no. iend one to fwell the
numbers Of your adyerfaries. Blu, know that
| The itaten,ent is fafc Even were it true, what
| does it prove ? Why thar Bottom, Newyork.
phiiadelphia, Baltimore Norfolk and Cnarl elton,
are willing truit their intereits to men, whole
| iabors coni.ne them leis, than merchants. But
| thi, falie itatement is made to alarm you. The
| federal member from New 7 ork CRY is diff
singuifscd merchant, one Of the gentlemen from
| Philadelphia, one from baltimore, one from
| Norfolk, one or two from South Carolina, be-
I Gdes the two, TO whon,she author alludes who
are we'll known to BE- Meilrs. Cuts and Crown
! ingihied The names of thole others have mem
toned are hon. MIR. Sands, Mr. Clay, Mr.. M
Creeny, Mr.. Newton, Mr.. Lowndes, aud Mr..
| Hampton. do not doubt, there are many 9TH
er merchants among whom, unlefs am inlin-
| formed, is the hon. Mr. Williams, a federalilt
from BarnItable diftridt In dhort, fellow citi-
zens, choofe a federait to repreent you in con-
grefs, mai Of integrity, and information, as is
| Samuel 7batttsy, Efq and your interefts will be
defended. = But If you fend a man, infected with
| the democracy Of Virginia, you may expect he
viii vote With thoie, who are, now laying beaq,y
sNyaea5 on you OF the merchants Of Bottom,
with whom you are 10 intimately connected,
! more than four ffths are federaliits, and they
know that lawyers, the hon. Mr. Amcs, and
the hon. MIR. Otis, nave been the defenders of
OF our commercial fyftem, andto them they now
look with reverence. !wf'a7 lo4 Z t..l.l75s.
I, is ailerted BY the jacobins, that fome friends
of your true intcrelts, which is federalfA, are
wavering and almolt willing to fid- with the
new candidate. OF honorable men will not
believe fuch b4f afltrtions !; of prudent men,
luch aiiertons are ridicuicas; of fecera!:fs, i'm
pcilib.e Were the oppoGtion candidate man,
who had ufually dieovered his fentiments with
openneis, AMI had uniformly AIDED agAinit the
former administrations of w Arlington and Ad-
ans, ard in favor Of our prclent national rulers,
they might BE- iue,6ed in fupporting him from
reipea to his character, while they diiliked his
icntimen,s BUT the perfon, nominated as the