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

Printer fi-e1s t5s employ Of tts Hous.1
70 be fire, faid Mr.. b. the appreciation
or dtapr1 obation Of the PUBLICATION of the
implicated, was not the direct qaeltion b
fore Ike f4oaf- bet If was involved in the
real aGeisiog and gentlemen. by their vote
would FAY, whethes they liked il or not
70 do this il was nor accedary that si'e
i opinion Of Committee fhould be obtained
When nc have heard all that can DC fai1
on the fubjed. we car decide upon tt
| The Cafe, ke laid, was very impse The
Printers of the P.sLad;am had publilhed
things highly improper AMI therefore,
as officers of the Houte we diiniss therF,
ard shrs exprefs our dif4pprcBa,ion for
their conduit. If, as all individual, nc
faia, he found ,hata printer hid said mn
proper things, of him, his remedy was TO
| fay, Mr.. Printer, you muh discontinue,
my paper. 1.-THE door keeper, faid Mr..
B. were to bring offenEse matter into the.
HoulS would the houie call him before
| them, and difniis him from their employ.
ment ,>or would they appoint a commit
tee to hear what he had to fay in excuic :
lie believed committee would not be ap
| pointed If iuci, he iaid, would be the
proccis with the door Keeper, why not a
| dopt. the fame towards printers who had
ient the mott offenEys matter n the Houle,
Ill, their papers. u = II a..
| Bat it is arrged, faid Mr. 3. chat we have
contracted to employ tlIefe Printers a year
and contraa cannot be refcinded.--It
appeared. however, he faid, that the con-
| trad did not bind the Printer, unlefs be
pleafed to fulfill il why,shen hsould il, he
| aiked bind the Holfc. -ContraGas onghs
to be mutually binding W. employ thoe
printers for The time they ale at work ; -
we call upon shemto pretrnt their accounts
we do not difpute With them about slie
terms of the payment; bur we will fay,
that we want no more OF their work. It
we, he fad, were to hire labcurer in our
houies for given time, and be i.Sould be-
guilty of IT. decent language before our fam
.les he aased, whether any gentleman
would not have right to turn him out o.
doors = This was, lie faid, equally apph-
cable TO the Printers. They had been
guilty. of Indecent conduG and we have
a right to fay we will not keep them in oar
employ any logger.
Mr.. B then entered into contrat BE-
tween the characters Of the papers fome.
years Gnoe and thofe of the preienr
day; and lamen.sd the desencracy Of the
latrer. He would not, he faid, lay, that "a
ny Of the papers were favtlefs ;-ncf that
they did not all deferve Interpretation:
But we mutt 5eginto prefcTibe The remedy
fomewhere and The Printers IN queition
were the only ones within the controul Of
the Houfe, The world, he iaid, we'll knew,
that this paper (rlre Palladium was brought
into the Houfe - and it was in this pa
per, thai. all the filth, all the icuriiity Of
all the papers, had been collected in enc
n,als, and poured upon the Treldent Of
the Union,
Mr.. B. aid, be was 70 unhappy as
greatlyto differ from the gentleman from
Shifted, in opinion, respecting the truth Of
the inf;iuasons in the piece IN debate
He was extremely forty, he faid, to hear
thar gentleman FAY, he foemnly believed
rhefe charges to be all true , He was
forty he was 70 much under the influence
and guidance Of parry fpirit. = And whar,
he aRei, were the grounds of hrs belief I?
Why truly, becaulc che charges were pro-
we'd NOT 70 be falte. What if Mr.. 1afs,j5u,
when he was reviled, reviled not again
Were not things equally as abufive uttered
againf the highee char cter ever on earth,
and did they not remain uncontradiGted =
To his mind, fald Mr.. B. it did not become
gentlenaeu to declare, that they believed
the charges 10 beitruc. They had no 9TH
pr evidence of ,heir hfinr f., ,ho~,s' ~. /