Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1806-11-24
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Eoan the Ne1ryOrk Herald.
THE TWO THOMASES.

1T appears that Thomas Paine is display
ing his g useful iabors" as a SUB Editor IT,
Cheetham. In this character, Paine is use
full in two respects First BY writing the
papers signed Samuel 4daa,ss, which are
substituted for the Editorial columns of nor
sense and Calumny, daily expected IN The
Citizen And secondly, as a democratic
test to ascertain the degrees Of insolence and
wickedness, which can be safely palmed III.
the Community While Paine's nose can be
kept at or below the degree Of snnnlel
heat, Cheetham can leave his Office and
sport IN his gig about Town, soliciting the
simple ones TO convene and address NJ. Jef-
ierson....But when the c.loric principle IN
creases so that the nose emits scintilations
OF Fiery Hutchinson, out comes Cheetham
like moderate man, disayows the publica-
ton and leaves the scandal to rest solely on
his partner Thomas.
1t is q good sign in Cheetham and much
TO be commended, that he begins 10 have
some regard to character, yet methinks it S
not altogether polite to treat Paine, as if lie
had no character 70 lose IL ought to ~ re-
membered, that Thomas Paine and Thomas
Jefferson, are the Castor and Polux of De
mocracy, animated by enc soGl and destined
to one Fate. The Office flied By Paine. is
indeed a necessary one but PANE ought
not to be the scape goat Surely !. miscre-
ant Of less celebrity, can be found well prac-
ticed IN committing :" The eldest SINS, the
newest kind of ways upon whose head the
burden Of democratic inhrnitics ought to
De laid
III ~.
Advertiser Of April, %, 1893, viii show
the intimate connection between Paine and
Jefferson and that the latter has decia ed,
ever since he he's been President, that P.ine's
principles are precisely his ozpa principles, and
tAat he hqbes, they zriN " 1eAeraH recognised
i1 TIE United States 1t is remarkable, that
these principles are precisely sucn j. Paine
IS nozv advocating and the Jeticrsoni..ns are
Hog0 supporting IN tiis c9unty.
1t must excite some curiosity, 70 know
what the principles were, which Mr. Ieffer-
son thought 50 important as to require his
aReHcy, in cavsing them to be published in
the Newspapers ana IN a bGmbA'cr
Ot All the rhapsodies engendered by Folly
and Knayery, what Paine calls lis MARI
TIME COMPACT was the most ext1aofdi-
nary 1T seems, that Paine, Bonneville,
Barlow and Skipwith, wrote Letter to one
OF the French DIRECTORY, inviting that body
% promulgate Code Of lNaratige Las for
the Civilized World, to be preiaced by 2 de-
claratIon, that France yyiH remain ~ Peace,
2ghIle Peace can be nbdintaiHe4 On her ba,t ~
me observance q fustice and the rights "
Nations thaIthe rights Of neutrality con-
SYST IN the faculty of naviFatrrg al seas,
trading to all places, except blockeded ports,
carrying all articles qpifhout any e~cettign Of
c0nra5and Of WGy and FIR all persons, WITH
OUT AM DISTINCTION Of BELLE
GERENT By NEUTRAL...-on account Of
tie iHnloraliy Of baivateeigg, the practice
was to be abolished BY France
Instead Of protecting this system BY ships
1t was proposed, by the amicable Paine, Sc
that all civilized Nations should send Dele
gates to Hamburger to compose Chancery,
and that this ChanceIy should czrasd tenai-
ties against Bclligerent Nations IF the
awards were not paid to tie Chancery i'll
three months, the offending nation was 70 be
under the Ban IF Commerce that Is al
trade zcaS to be iHteydicted -. This restriction
OF Commerce was to be a substitute for
fleets and forAfeatiOns and denominated an
UNARMED NEUTRALITY"
In failure Of other funds to pay awards,
p5irafe and public debts due to the offending
Nations Spere to be srqueStrreI 1T seems to
have been expected however, that the Ban
Of Commerce, would afford an adequate
remedy.
Let the citizens of New-Yorll think OF
these things, and if they are willing to rely
for protection on Board If ArJiHgtorS, rs
wise and honest as that which distributed
the Louisiana Fund, let them discard Fo,7r-
fcafioas ard 'Sitibs, honor Tom Paine and re-
elect his patron Thomaa Jefferson.