Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1805-1805, 1805-04-01

OF Bottom, rsyfnty jcvea yofs5 saiy. Again, iii
more lately, on the 4th of July 1853, at feaf
in honor of that Anniversary, Charles Jarvis be
ing Preinlent, Ru9cl Sturgis, Benjamin Auit-
in, Jun. and Nathaniel Fellows, thole rare re
.puoIlcans, Being Vice-PreGdents, the following
ioaf was drank, amida reiterated apPlauieS.
& 7ke OrIta~ ct tie dnp-ths degenerate plant Of q
STRANGE VINE" Now mark, my fellow. Cit
zens, William Sullivan was the orator Of The
day, and this FRANCE vine i3 none other than
The Hon. ame5 Sullivan. And truly very APP
Propriate was this type Of the would b Cover
nor Of MaAacbuietr5 For lie has little root il
principe, and is very wide iPread on the fur
tace, lhootIng his twitting ana atpiring top, on
every hde, to find props for his ambition and
holds, by which he may climb. Charges of a
dark, and doubtful nature rrft Oh his character.
And thete are net confined either in their ori-
gin, Or credit, 70 his political adveriaries. Sure
II, in a virtuous community, fueh man u1At
Forever 10 be excluded from all chance Of iuCCes,
when he is oppofed TO fuch rival as Strong.
One on whot character caiurrny has not fixed
itain in which party fprit does rot pretend
to find flaw. AgainIt whom malignity has
Warrington, he cannot give public tettimony in
favor Of our national administration conducted
by a man the known perlonat cuemy Of the
tainted hero Of Mount Vernon, and the prip-
cipcS OF which are in direct oppofrtion TO all
thoie men and meafures, to which that great
man lent h5na and his iupport.
On this account therefore, that Strong has
already conducted the government of this coun.
Try, iaieiv and profperoul}Y lfeel it my duty
TO give HIM my vote. Can we eXpcCt 10 enjoy,
under the administration Of any man, more than
We have already, and do now enjoy under Gov
ernor Strong u il 3olhble that We can Be
more lafe, or more happ;, or more free IsitI
not very fooIith and abfurd loI people, who
change him, and that too, without fault lain
to his changer Bat hold it alto, in certain
iente wicked and immoral. He, who atthe pub
lic call foregoes his private cafe, and fubmits to
The labours and obloquy Of Office, and executes
his high truit, with honour and fidelity, has
in my opinion, fort of right to that Counte-
nance, which re election eXpredes. Otherwilc,
as the people have no other way of expecting
their appreciation of good and their difappro5a-
ton Of bad rnab iffrateS, they confound the one
with the other to the utter dilcouragement Of
the former and 70 the no Iefs comfort and con.
i0latlon Of the latter. And | take it 70 be the
ordinary way, in the moral government Of pro-
violence, TO puniih peope for their abufe of
vIrtuous rulers, by turning them over to be
fcourged, by thoie, who are vicious and who
are burning with an nnholy ambition and Thrift
for power
Another reafon, that have, in favour Of
Gov. Strong, o. that having had frequent occa-
Eons Of marking his conduct in private life, he
is, in my opinion, the truett fanpc Of real re-
pubhcanllm, that have ever known, or could
imagine. have often fccn and converted with
him and only with, my fellow citizens, that
every one Of you had been favoured with the
like opportunity would with no better ai1ur-
ance Of the cordial and unanimous iupport Of
every good and virtuOus citizen know not
how to ex refs mylelf, on this fubje6t, but if a
humble, modeit intelligent department, aboun-
ding with gno6entagjouS gOodne(s kind man
ner5, and a couRtenance, and conduit, the mott
benevolent and at;radive--if to thelc, the addi-
tion in private life, Of exemplary piety, and Of
the exsrcite of all the focal ana domeltic viz
tues, intitlc a man to confidence and refpe6t,-
Gov. Strong cannot but be re elected.
know il has been fad that Gov. Strong is
too frugal. That he rides down to Bottom, in
the tta1e, or il iulkey: That he does NOT
dine The members Of the General curt, in of
ton, as often as Gov. Hancock did: And we
are tolI that things will BE nightly altered when
Judge Sullivan is in the chair who lives i'll a
great houte, in the capital, and has already We
ny fequen'ly and by way Of getting his band
il, entertained, very (plendidly, all The leading
republicans Of both branches and moreover,
in order 10 ihow his god dilpoGtions, and to
cxemplify, when he gets into the chair, Jsand re-
pn5fcan principles, has, fnce the lat election,
got iuperb equipage, and put his fervants in
to new liveries, all in green, trimmed, if I am
nor miluformed with lace. Now beg 1t NAV
be underltood that do not mention this, by way
Of objection to Mr. Sullivan. becaufe I-beljeve