Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1804-02-18
FOR rnE PORTLAND GAZETTE.
9be Malicious defgas Of TAcosrNrsm
anpeilsd.


preceding number, the frft i}atement of
the Jacobins relative to Mr.. Tracy, and
having proved by poiitive and incontro-
v:rti5le evidence, that the fame is lhane-
iul calumny, proceed to a tecond fate
ment. as contained in the iacobin papers,
equally falfe, and If Polliblc more malicious
than the former.
Five or fix years ago Mfr. Tracy foliei;ed a
private interview with che Rev. 9fersy Crjqvod OF
New Milford a MIN to whom it is 40 Aattsry 20
fay, that in point OF talents, Integrity, and every
excellent virtue, has not hyperion among hi
brethren 10 Connecticut. The conversation was
long and interchangeable. Crifwoid was, as has
been obleived, a Clergyman he was in the prime
OF life, of eminent menta! endownents. and of
cou,fe bid fair TO become effectively influential
Such an ally to the Federal caufe was to be deGr.
ed, and il was doubtlefs expected that view of
the golden harven that federafm pror,iied to the
prieGhocd wohli be iulicient to convince man
10 MIR Grifwod's ttnaticn OF the excellency of the
fyflem. AT any rate, wi,h this otieA exprcfsly in
view, MIR. Tracy converted with Mr.. Grifwold--
that is, to explain to him the real, and ultimate
dcfgps of Fedefalitis, aid to procure his opera
tion 10 fupport of their projects In the courle Of
the Development, Air. Tracy lamcntcd the general
condition OF cafe and equality in point of property,
which eAiaed in the United States, Especially in
New England. This he confdered as a circum-
iianee utterly ineonGfent with the cxiaence of a
Rsady and energetic government. Aifluence. he
iaid, 'n!pred men With fenmcn,s ofindependence,
and made every man politician who boiied him.
fsif with affairs of tste that nation Of fuch
men can never he well governed, but that the
government will be as fueiuating the within, and
caprice of the psople. That this Gate of things
mua be done away :; rot f1dden'y sindeei, but
ultimately it n.nA be doue away. That other
enpl yments mutt be found for the people than
reading, and c,itieiing the meaiules OF Govern
,nent--rhat to PLow, and to HOS, were the proper
enploylnen,s of the MATS Of the people and that
the hudnefs ofgovernment ihsuii be left to ,hoie
who are capable of understanding it. The princi
tal engine for eE-sang this change, he laid, was
taxation, as BY the aid Of thar, the frrpus OF the
produce Of The labour Of the people, beyond what
abfolutsly necsary for their fubiiaancs, might
he drawn from them whereas il is now, worfe
than waited on an education for their ehdrsn, TO
quality them 20 6bd fau4. with the meaiuIes Of
government.
He fs;d, that ia order to place the government
above the reach OF demag ogues-or Of popular
phrerzy, the Bri,inr form mutt be adopted. That
the chief masiGra,e and Senate NUT be invefed
n,
and Nodes, though under other names, beeaute
,hofe names we're odous to the people. Hs faid
that religion NUT be elablilsed by law, TO aid
she government that its misiaers mua receive
rich fipends independent OF the people. He iaid
that all this as.indesd very different from the
IDEAS Of the great MATS citizens this irbeH,
bur that li It was calculated for heir benefit, and
# they had not fufEcient WILTON to difcsrn this,
and to adop. it voluntary, it was the duty of the
wife, and the good TO bring it abour by tuch
means as were within their power. lie faid that
thoie notions Of liberty and equality which produc
cd our revolution, wild and tantahic, thar in
practice they were incompatible with order aud
good government. He fAid hat hell was The prop.
er foil of the Tree of Liberty, and that all the
Liberty Poles that had been erected on the face Of
tho ear bur ihcots and branches OF this orig
inal aock which fatan had planted &.cultivated in
he'll.
Much more of this fort he uttered but this is
dou5.eis iulicient to prove him a true fderalR."
1t is prefumed that the Rev. Stanley
Grifwold would be the lalt man living to
provoke an inveitigation of this fubiec,
had he not either loft his memory, or
abandoned all regard to his own reputa-
ton. The following letter from parton
Grilwold clearly identifies the conycrfa-
ton developed in the jacobin papers, with
thar referred to by Doc. Sheldon and Mils
Champion. The relult is that either
David or parton Grilwold on the one
hand, or Doc. Sheldon and Miis Cham
pion on the other, are guilty of an affiliate
Lie. The cafe is reduced to this Jingle
RANT, and it is now boldly afferted that
the conversation detailed in the jacobin
papers, is tDas Of lies from beginning to
end. In the firf place, the writer who
itiles himfelf David, iays, that this con-
''veriation took place " five or fix years
ago." Here then is one miltake, for the
Rev. Stanley Crifwoid reported the fub-
itance of this Ealf fame conversations as
publilhed in thole papers, more than