Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-03-10
" Be jsP. and yto; nos.
l.ss al ihe end. tsos aimr al, Ge 'ly Cossns's,
Thy Ccd's. and T,mb',."
r0s TIE PORTLAND GAZETTE.

Gus of the party, make it point to
all the e6ays, arguments, and even fqulUy,
which appear in the democratic papers |:
and .(ometimes when meet with any
thing Of Efficient importance to be an
dwered, if it contains INTERPRETATIONS,
which often happens, attempt to COR
rect them in fone Federal paper. Nor
do look at ,hole papers with any predif.
po6rion 10 find fault with their contents.
] Lave once or twice in the fpace of ten
years met with truth there, which has
been of feryice in teaching me to view
with impartiaiity and candor, the OFFER.
vations ofthote, whom cannot but look
upon, as political adverfaries. Eas EFT ct
db bsRe deee7j, is an old maxim and a
good one in plain Englilh, It's good
policy to get initrudion, even from thofe
whole opinions we generally liIappfove.
With thefe fentiments, the other day
calt my eye over newly elabIslhe,i paper
that attempts to boat itlelf into lome re:
puse, and the 6qf thing, which truck my
eye, was the inaugural fpecch delivered
by the PRECEDENT three years ago, when In
Quoted iuto Office. was pleaied with the
ingenuity and impar,iality of thefe editors,
in reprinting that fpeech. Certainly II was
an ingenious device, to fiji 70 large portion,
of a paper, Nhich would otherwile have
been barren, with fpeech, which every
reader OF that paper, mutt be pfelumcd
TO have by heart and which every feder-
aliit has occaGon to recollecf, from the
itrong contrals it prefents, between the
real or affected fenlimcnts of Mr.. Jeferfon,
at that period, and his official doings fince.
Impartial thele editors mott certainly are,
otherwile they never would have held up
to the people of this Diltrid the pretend
ed principles, upon which their idol ailum-
ed the chair OF government when his
whole political conduct, wherever he has
been called to act, has been Numerically
oppoiite to thole principles. Had Mr..
JeHerfon lied, according to the rules and
maxims, which he exhibited to the people
Of the United States, as the true expedition
of the federal compact, and the BATS of
his administration, there would now have
been no party in the United States un-
leis it had been competed CT the prefent
court party, who might. and probably
would have oppofed an administration,
founded upon, iyaem. 70 jua, fair, and
honorable. But trangc to tell the man
who had juR evinced his knowledge of the
true principles, upon which republican
government ought to be administered /,
who had recommended them mot folennH-
" to the attention of the American people
and had thus explained his fsnfe of the
oath he was about take ;-this very tnan,
in few A1ort weeks, days may FAY /, be.
fore the paper was dry, on which this by.
pocritical and popular addrcfs was printed,
ilagrantly and unequivocally gave a prac-
teal contradiction, to lome Of the mott
important of thofe principles and not
content with this, in letter to the mer.
Giants of Newhaven in the face of the
world, avowed principles, absolutely and
directly hottie to thofe he had 70 lately,
with fomuch form and folemnity, adopted.
The republication of the addrels, made
upon the the location of his inauguration,
will forcibly recall ideas, which otherwife
might not have obtruded themfelves on the
mind.
will felea lomc Of the mon prominent
features of that addre(s, and ihew by way
Of commentary, bow much theory and !
prastice have been at variance.