Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1805-09-09
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ana ther party, with every folly that can
render men def icable, and eyerv vice rh,t
can render chem hateful When we fnt
them IN their publications admit that thew
always knew Duane, the man who RATED
Jeherion 70 the presidential chair. was raC-
cal,-that they knew it when they emnlov-
ca hin 70 write a8ainf the Federalifs.-
'hat ne was among the bafeit Of men -
10 ute their own words, that " he vas beC.
meared with mirc and flth,"-that NJ had
no quality that was valuable, except that
ne could make falltbood appear ike truth
and truth like faliehood and for this pur-
pole they hired him. They acknowledge.
that they knew that the crimes charged bv
this fellow upon the federalifs, were :
yllclt calumnles; and that they FREQUENTLY
5t"lJfd upon reading them, trcmbliDr Ief
the lies ihould be dete0ed before th@v had
wreited the Government out Of the hands
of the Federaliits. When we thus Zee de-
moCracy exPofed 70 public view Dv her de-
voices, when VIC fee her lripped naked,
with not Jingle rag to cover her.-appear-
ing the ugly deformed haggard that fhe is
we are apt to conclude, that the illuGon
which has darkened the unRandiugs IF opr
countrymen will vanifh That thew will
again return to correct fentiments. Bus
this is not the ordinary courle Of things
and Why ii not, may be eaGly learnt if we
attend to the fate Of fociety, in any coun-
try, which has been corrupted by dema-
gogues. The MATS of their followers at
length become radically corrupt, and in
love with vice.
What profpe6 of coed is there to the
community, IN the event Of either partv's
prevailing in Pennfylvania if the Rories re-
lated Of each other are true? Many of
them the federalifs have long Gnce known
10 b true, before the democrats BETRAYED
each other. As to other facts which
they relate, which are new, i wilt
Be remembered, that they were once
jointly engaged in the workof ckedne5,
that they perfectly knew each others f.
crets; ana it has always been held, in courts
OF Juttlce, thatpartakers Of crimes are COM
Petent wltneilcs againt each other.
An horrible exhibition has been made of
the rank corruption amongG the leading de-
nocrats, by their recriminations upon each
other. As long as they fhall be able 10 hold
the people in chains, By falfe pretenfons
Of iriendthiP,-when men will not learn,
that the Pretences Of p.ofigate men, of
trendlhiP 20 the people, is the deepef nv.
poorly ;--when the examples Of former
republics will have no influence, all of which.
with a Jingle exception, have fallen VIC
TINS to the arts Of demagogues, who rem
defed the people Jealous of their faithful
rulers, and then procured for themfelvesa
mtPlaced confidence, and when opportu-
nlty Pretented 1eized upon the Government.
overthrew every republican inttitution,
and on their ruins efabhlhed Tyrannv.--
When this is the cafe, we have the utmoft
reaion to conclude, thar the progrefs Of
things viii Be from bad to woIie, until the
ca'aitroPhe Of a6lolute defpotiGn takes
place, when fome villain, holder than
the feit, fupPorted by ths proRigate lea
ders OF democracy, fhall be crowned En-
Peror OF Columbia. In that day it will be
iecn, that thefe Sham-Patr;ots, thefe won
drous Friends of the People, will cringe
and creep around the footfool Of their
Monarch, baking in the ignoble funfhine
OF Royalty, yet meanly trembling at its
trowns
My Federal COuntrymen, let MKean
and Snyder contend as much as they
P.eaie and whether Dallas or Duane fhculd
prove the mot expert in cutting threats,
you have no interea III the bufnefs -
They are the hawk and the lnake. Never
hope that any third party viii arife with
whom you can join II car never be the
cafe until Virtue and Vice have changed
their natures pITefV