Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-11-19
FROM THE csNrINse.
I,ums.. .. Ne. XXI.
RevireU IF Mr.. JsFFERsoN's A4uiaiFrutign.

Ill pattlZd05 OF W.T. JcHerlon nave con-
hans!y ahersed. that the objettof the f-deraiiiis
has been the Introduction of monarchv, and its
eiabliihment on the ruins # the republican fyf-
tenn OF vcrnn.ent. To produce in the public
mind belief of luch delign. not only the
WORT pofIioie confrua ION has been put on their
meaures, contribution utterly ceititute of
truth, but fentiments have been attributed to
them, Of which they never had Ia conception
They have attacked the reputation Of men, pre-
eminent tor talents and probity, excited by the
virulencs CT ranaorous plrty fpirit, until they
bavc rendered them odiou,, and confequenty
now batten on the iil-placed confidence Of the
patio.,. While they were thus facrifcinc HE
victims of them periecution at the ihrine Of falf
hood, they aocunded ~ promies of future e,od-
Grafton, forhearance aud equaninlity. Since
their elevation to political enlir, nee does their
conduct exhibit thefe traits Not 70, tbeir vi-
es,te /sens 70 ine,eeys NTH their poevev. far
from intending the pTeiervaton and durability
Of our republican nitituions, an nyeltieation
ottheir conduct will convince, that they are
rapidly inyrod ming an ochocracy, or kind of
ologai chy. Men OF independence and virtue
are to be humbed in the duh, and the perma-
nence of the power of fewf.f nyed friends
Of the people is to be ehabl,fhed beyond national
eOntroul. Part OF the evidence of flch an in
tention reiults from the act, inveiting Mr. JEFF
ferfon with the abiolute government of Loui-
6ana, the attempt to aboliih the officers of COM
miihoners OF loans in the everal itl,es, and the
amendment of the contribution in connection
with the threatened deitru6fion of the Judges
of the iuprrme court of the United States bv
impeachment. ihefe acts, excepting the lait
We lhal now examine.
Under preceding administrations Glamour
sga:nt executive patronage was conAanty
heard. Former prelidents were accuicd Of ie-
eretly, though iurely undermining the oonititu-
ton by concentrating in themfclyes .any pow
ers.veIted in the other branches of government.
But how have .fnch evils been guarded aaainit
snder the preent reign? Why, congrefs have
done more by a Jingle ad to perpetuate the
power of Mr.. Jeaerion. in enabling him to con-
troul public opinion by an unprecedented pat
atration united. They have invefed him with
m authority over Louiiana as uncomfortable, las
; that. which Bonaparte exerciies ever his French
Raves. Indeed the conduit Of the French
government Teens TO have been their model
Not only che governors, but through him, eve.
~ officer 70 jultice Of the peace, are depend
emit on the executive. Notwithitand the
glowing picture of the riches of this territory,
with which the nation has been amufed, the rev.
<nues Of it were deemed inadequate to the
wants OF the prehient; he was confequenty
authorized, and can now draw money from che
national treafury, under the denomination of
lalaries for governors, and fone other officers,
whom he may appoint. Y.ou, who were afraid
of executive Influence. what opinion do you en-
tertan of your friends, who formerly profeilcd
to be even avaricious of the money Of the pco-
pie ? Can you behold with complacency MIR
Icifer4on emperor of LouiGana, country which
has been defcribed as alrnoa boundlels in ex-
tent and cxhauitlefs in wealth Or do YOU
fappofe that he will fslhfplly ufe thcie refour-
ees for the free rexpreillnn of the public will,
md the promotion Of the national fervice, when
you cannot yet have forgotten his interference
In the Delaware election, or the fums he PAID
Calender for publifhing infamous ibs on YOUR
first revolutionary characters This aet will
perhaps hereafter be dated by the nation as the
Sauie of the lots of its liberty. The clankinp Of
che chains Of ilavery will remind it of the free
dom foolhly inundated on the altar Of party
Another aSt, tending to a copoen,ra ton of
power in fewindiyiduals in the government.
IS the attempt 10 aboifh the officers of commit
Goners OF loans. when the debt of the Uni
led States was afuncd, the act of ahumprion
authorized; offices to be opened in the isyeral
chen exiting ftates. 1t directed that the inter
sft ariins on the debt, lubiciibed, hould be
paid at thcie Offices or The treafury, at the OPP
ton of the fubfcriber This then was an agree
ment on the pax Of the government with the
fuAfcriber, that his intsreh should pc paid a.
the office of his subscription iince to receive
II at the treafury only, after fnbfcribing with an
expectation OF receiving it at an office, If he
happsned to live at an extreme part Of the
Union, would diminifh the value Of his ftock
nearly one and an half per cent. The faith of
government was therefore iolemnly pledged for
the payment of -inrcreit at the fcvera offices,
ua.efs the fubfcribers preferred receiving it Al,
the ,reafary. Toaboliih the offices. and trsnf-
fer their bufine6 to the treafury withou, the