Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1805-09-30
From he Political and Commercial Regiacr
Jh. Tcfer55n'5 -4Amini5tratian.


crued TO the people Of the United States,
from the Prelent tenPoriGng and relaxed
administration Of their general government !;
70 explain the embarallmentS thatha We ar
1ilen to our country from the non fulfill
ment of treaties, on the part of foreign ma
lions, who, after receiving the stipulated
price OF ruinouS purchaie, have 70 long
refu(ed to quiet our poh-lIion of the wilder
nefs 10 recount the lohes of our pundcred
commerce by the free boeters Of even the
leaf efficient Of the maritime powers to
recite the impolitions which her agents are
permitted to practiie on our merchants, by
erecting :heir confular Offices into Cultom
Houies, 7uitbn TIE United States, for the
1hameful Purpofe Of extorting fees on fhiP-
ping papers to enumerate the iElmedi-
ate dittreAc5 TO our manufactures, and the
eventual injury 10 our agriculture from thelc
evaGonS Of treaties, and thrte piracies and
eXactiOns on commerce, would exhibit a
1tatenlent OF abules, degrading bevond the
example OF lulttring Of any age or nation.
In what page Of hiltory ihall we look for
the precedent OF I people, circumitanCed as
the United States are. fu5mi:ting to ag-
greGions that fruitrate the indultry, and de-
feat the enterprile of neutral and unof-
tending nation "a nation TOO, which with
due eA tion on the part of its government,
is in capacity not only to arref but to
puniih the aggreiIons.
That war is great calamity, & ought ,:by
every mean conGlten1 with honor and fafe-
ty, 70 be ihunned, we fhall readily concede,
but that the tame endurance of robbery and
infult, with all the evils that could attach to
actual war, is fate Of rational futfering
infinitely more aggravated and afli6ting,
mutt alto be admitted.
Injury and dilgrace are the inieparable at
tendants on national humility and concef-
Gon-but fafety and refpe6 await the peo-
PIE who are prepared for war, and refoute-
,ly determined to maintain their right.
Does It any longer admit of a quefion,
with the truly patriotic American, whether
fer the mere gratihcauon Of party fpirit,
artfully fomented by thole who benefit from
the pretent order Of things, men utterly in
competent to nealures of national dignity
and defence, ihould be perpetuated at the
head Of afairs-or that, by bringing into
the national councils The Wildom and vigor
of firm, experienced and practical ftatelmen,
we fhould reltorc our declining fame, re-
iume our rank among nations, and give to
our citizens thofe imnunities, which mutt
always flow from wife, impartial, and dig
nifed administration Of the governmest /?
Are we weak enough to lnppofe that the
character Of our rulers has no influence on
the conduct Of foreign nations towards US,
or can we believe that their characters have
not been completely analyied, and are nos
correctly underitood
Is there a ftatelman III Europe who is
tiot Informed Of the opinions which Mr..
1efcrfou cntertains, and which have been
publfhed, of the governmert which he now
admmilters
Is there Frenchman who has not read,
with equal contempt and fatiSfaetion, the
animadverGons in Mr. leaerlon's letter tc
Mazzei, on General Warrington and his
compatriots, who formed and afterwards
administered the contribution" Tb9,f ST.
g 0noas IN council, and Sam2j615 IN TIE field,
g .vb2t locks 7ysre hsrn ~ tbe qyborr Of
" England 5"-l5 there an EnglIihman who
has nor read, with equal TepUgnancc and
dilguh, this illiberal and unfourdcd itri1ure
on his nation Is there a real American
who Goes not Teproach and reject the bale
iniiuuatiol which that itric ure conveys
againtt the rather Of lis Country 2 Is
there either American or Spanard who is
unacquainted with the mean and fplenetic
proceedings which rctored foreign minif-
ter with whom inTercourfe had been refu-
led by former administrations, for having
groA'y in1uited the nation, in making, thro'
the ntwfpapers, an appeal from its govern
mert TO The people Ok Is any one is-
nsrani of the rctu+n which this very minis
Ter has u'ads to Mr. TetIerlon, BY repeating
snc IngJAt wirh impunity
Is there an indiyiduaf oF eiyhcr henif-
phSre, acquainted with ne hitory Of the
Americaa revolution. wh0 II ignorant that