Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1806-07-07

Siats, va WHICH perhaps there may os
one hundred in the General Court,
and many thoufands in the country,
paufe now on the edge of the deep
pit into which cur republic is fin
king, paufe and conGder zvbicb Of
the two parties is mott to be trui
ted. The reflefs lovers ef change,
of licentious mifrule, or the old and
faithful friends of Warrington and
his political fyitem.
Perhaps you will fay, that you
will not clofcly unite yourfelvcs with
either Of the two parties. Be it 70.
Then as by flanders carefully conGd.
er rhe before mentioned charge Of
the Jacobins, that the federal party
are monarchifts. IF that charge Be
falfe, will you join the contrivers
and propagators of the falfhood /; or
will you conclude, as common frnfc
dictates you ihould conclude, that
thoie who refort to flander and lies
have dehgns at heart as bad as the
foul means they employ to effect
them. Shun liars, they cannot be
patriots, fhun landerers, use your
fenle and understanding to judge
whether this tory about the Federal
Monarchy is true.
What is the prosF that it is true,
for you will not, we hope, believe
il to Dc true, aOitbont any prsof ?
Surely the federali!ts do nor own the
fact. They DO not acknowledge
their guilt, and great indeed would
be their guilt, if they were at work
to fubvert cur Republic and TO build
a Monarchy on its ruins. The Fed
craliits certainly plead nj gully, and
they put their aceufers to the trouble
Of proving the charge.
How DO they prove it = What
facts do they fate! The courfe Of
the IL years federal administration
Of the government. Amen MIR.
Jefferfon OH this courfe, decidedly
fays, he found The republican lyfen in
the FULL TIDE or SUCCESSFUL Xxx
PERTINENT. Wathinsron's Taft ad-
drefs contains the principles which all
Federalits approve. Thofe which,
as long as they were in power, they
in fact adopted and carried into ope-
ration. Here then are faaf in oppo-
'iition to vague and nanderous accu-
fations. Here YOU have then the
whole conduct of the Federalifis, and
in Wafhington's addrefs all their
rules and principles of political con-
duct.
BeGdes, is it not filly and abfurd
to pretend thar they we're plotting
to force Monarchy upon the people
when they had not influence and
means enough 70 KEEP bold eftbe ytpu6-
Econ pswer that bed 5ssn csaFitafi0naiy
committed TO tbfm ? How inconfilt-
ent is it to reprefent them, as the
Jacobins have reprefenred them a
million times, little defpifed feeble
faction, and formidable fct Of maj.
tiers over the people Had the FEEDER
aIifts intended to lay the foundation
Of 4 Monarchy, they would have
conldered our republican, fyftem as
an e5fYu6iea in the way. They
would have tried to amend it, not
70 as to refemble Monarchy, but
so a. to become a rope Of fand.
They would not have tried TO give
ffrength and duration to the obfruc-
ton they found in their way, and
fuch, we fays Monarchilts would
deem our contribution 10 be, but
they would 70 amend the conftitu-
ton, and at any rate they would
70 adminiIter il, as to bring II down
in fact TO nothing. Suppofe the
plot Of Monarchifs was laid, would
not this mott certainly have been
their courEe Of conduct? Would
they not have taken care, on every
location, to curry favor with rhe
people for themfelves, but at the
fame time to put them out Of temper
with the republican contribution I
While the Confederation was hiding
down into the dirt, every Federaliit
took this very courfe and had reafon
for dsing it. You were then told,
the plan of government was a bad