Jenks' Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1803-1805, 1805-03-04

,an,ers Glcaid net consluts their paper accord /
a. 20 oar taac How iar that doctrine would !
learrv the gentemaa, Ii WIS dllI,l ult 70 IA. l
fWould he diicAr,l 4 peinteI, for publications /
o,assaus to him, reips6fing religion. Or mt
.as cr rsfsecang foreign government; - /
suypoie thar the Printers hohIJ tnggefl, ,hst !
Il favorred of rcriccu.iougo Gnsle them out aud |
mark them as victims FOR llhelous pu,licat orfs,
;ftaey were reiy guilty b-caafe. that among |
their brethren If fiie type, scaTcc one could be t
found who was not equally calPabie or. who /
could Clan, RICH. fra TO. salt tone az them |
Here, however. tie gentleman from Pr teid |
would anlwcr that ne printers q the P-sAadium
we're enpoyed BY the Legjanure; they hal
therefJre, the Continuance 81 the government
AID thai tlrs retotutioa on the table only went
t. uifb5rA~ tfat ccangeaaaec. Mr.. 5. taid,
t.a. yne agreement would probably prove more
than the gent.einan Intended, or wiihcd, By
Attending law OF the commonwealth, every pin
teI OF a ncwipaPer thcfrpi, was virtually en-
p,oycd 70 print The laws apt was allowed a
oertaa annaal iuT on ms producing evidence
J. that Lc had f. done. If, then, thc Legiaatute
wgud de4i impar ally, il would BE proper TO
ex,inine the tiles of al The newspapers, for IL
hedous or oa'euGFe publications !; and if fitch
hould be found, 70 difmifS the Printers from
our lcryice. Bu..if rene Of theie iuggeitions
would produce any effect on the. minds Of the
friends OF the ref luton; yet, unless they came
TO the Hcnfe, determined not to st diverted
from their pugpoie BY any coniiderations there
we're fill fome others, deierving of attention
The re.olution implied an inquiry into, AMI
ceniure of The conduct Of the Printers: Had
they been guilty Of any inditnity or difrefped
r.. ,i,er OF yt an, he
oiic character, no one would hnc Joined in
vote of ceniure with more zeal and aacrlty,
than Mr. b. In fuch cafe, he woul hove gone
farther than merely ex preiS an opinion; and
H. virtue of the authority conititutonally inner
ent in tic Houte, he would have ordered the
offenders into the cuhody of the Meffenser.
The preient, however, did not feem to him to Sc
fuch CAFE. The publication complained OF
was in no view diG-efpeetful to that Fiouie,
Should we Interfere, therefore, we should act
iadicialy, ard not in vindcation OF an inJury
which we had ia tanned, as Eoute 1t had
been commended. however, that by pafling the
r:iolve VIC ih1uld not inhit apunilhment but
iignply difinds the printers from further en-
plov ment. MIR. b. however concc ved, that de-
priring a man OF his accu:somed means of1up-
port, was very sericus panihment 1t was a
greed on all hands that the government had
need of the {eryces of fone Printer, in partic-
uar ;--if then the printers OF the Palladium
had become unit for thiS purPoie, becauie
p,@ce had b,-n founl in their paper which was
conceived TO 5e lbelious, and they ihould, there
fore, b: dif niHcI ito Wnoln would the friends
OF the &c ou ion with 70 transfer our patron
age 10 the Centiasi to the Rfpeyory ?
or to the proprietors of the Gbyoaick Let
II be remembered, that within a few years one
Of The printers Of that paper had been convicted
and psniGled for a libel on the Senate OF tals
Commonwealth Should he make the Demo
erot the favored vehicle of our communications
10 the public That paper, he had undertood,
was conducted by foreign renegade "a
,nercenary, born under che OF the deipctlc
governments Of Ea,Ytr. who had transported
Lim(elf to this country, for the charitable Pur-
pole OF teaching Americans how TO be tree -
and who had commenced and uniformly puru-
ed his bencvolent isbors by revng every thing
great and good amo US. Should We go to
Wo,re 9, aie adept the sEgis, as our Rate
newlpaper; whole columns ne had underttood
were often araccd with productions OF his IN
.oenious friend from tlat town Lock Sir,
at the aricfn cs in late number OF thar paper,
on the aft Speech Of Ills ExcellencY to the
Legislature, anu then Fay, with Eshae iace gen
tlenan can claim for tia preference 70 the raj
1 Il le.gjTa over