Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1806-05-19
/" Little Argu5," Or 7Ubo shall Be Rep
reTeatati7'eS!


rsreatati7eS!
REPUBLICANS!
ON Saturday evening federal caucus was
he.d-fome of our friends attended, expecting,
az bar bsrs.eforf BEEN tie eais, your government,
YOUR principles, and your conduct would have
been hii,s,brscn:ed and eaiEsrnizted and # they
had been, thofe afperhons would not have
gone unanfwered, But your NUMBERS IN
TIMITATED your enemies ;--they DARE
NOT give challenge--but rather BEGGE ID
your Elsace i--they did not DARE 10 puriue
their Eeat.u trad of SCURRlLTTY and MIS-
REPRESENTATION; but republican ma
iority (which there was IN the houie) dernand-
ed Of them the zoRsRy IF their NATURE -
TJey 4geH k-srv MAJORITY Of the caucus
were REPUBLICANS-th faw with diiInay
that but THIRTY Or FORTY out Of THREE or
FOUR HUNDRED voted in favor of their
motions, and al the choice of moderator they
had not COURAGE TO call for the manifeita-
ton Of thole CONTRA-MINDED- is that
20 be wondered at for altbo the fyG gG1fio7,
there were not THIRTY in favor Cat ea!t,
who MANIFEsTED III favor) Of Mr.. Freeman.
The republicans attended TO d.fend their prin-
ciples and government, but had no idea Of ep-
eeJitioz or aIIfubzaee, unleis il was provoked by
tsssreE e1aGer We are happy no cauie was
given-We are alo happy that the meeting
was the .nolt 5armeaioaf ever known OF ITS kind.
We have the ahuranee TO fay that il was IN
our power to fujeraft al their froresdingi but
as they extolled their own men and meaiures
saly, without DARING 10 derogate from the
merits of ours-and as by fuch proceeding
thew gave us no OFFENCE, we were unwill-
ing TO deprive them of the eoHfHnnafs pleaiure
Of purfuing their LAUDhBLE buhnefs----
which they did with :" fear and trembling 4
Mr.. Freeman, the moderator, made one OBJ
fervation, which we think worthy of notice,
As being the senti-ssst of the fsdeyai pa,ty-vz--
Tha, it was a fuffcieRt reafon with him a.
painlt Mr., SULLIVAN, that he was in fa1or Of fbs
prssens FEDERAL GOYERNMET Let
this be remembered Is il not proof that
thofe characters approve of STRONG oecauie
of his OPPOSITION to the federal govern
rnent Are thofe federal republicans who dil-
ike man becaufe he Approve OF govern
rient chofen by NTNE-TEN7,HS Of fts seapls I
Mr.. 7eFsryos was choien bv l62 TO IA Will
any man aile himfeIf either FeieraI or RstUbli-
saa who j, not willing TO fubnit to iuch an
treHiiar majority Can greater majority be
erpected In any federate or republican gov
ernment i--If men will not with heart and
hard, fuppert government 70 unanirnouiiy
chofen, they will never be eafy unleis you iuf-
fer them TO govern you Observation-Disclosures
them not, fellow citizens, they are not your
friends they pant for MONARCHY, ard
If that cannet be h ad, they are determined &c
create ANARCHY and CONFUSION.
They tell you it is " an intereiting and mo-
nentous criGsY if 70, Lhy put the buiineis
of until Saturday Higtf' is that, or SA"Aly =
fuitable time to reflect on the great concerns
Of the nationi We're they afraid to rorHiaafs
their Candidates in the caucus, or did they
erpea to dtseisr you by choofng committee
TO briug in lin, when that hit was long be-
fore determined on in 'fecret caucus OF
their Houss sf Lor4s, and 10 which none OF you
were good >sosgb to be invited! BE not iuch
humble isuifaforT IF ar5'oeray; rouie from your
lAbors, come forth in the .majetty OF your
ifrength, and -ote az yosr zrisso1 fs1H ditifi'.-
We do not command you, as men would their
svrs, to DO ts or rotbi.g, to sbOose s"ss szf1 '1
a. zyiH sspOs fbs gevsrntsent Of y"ly so1riry-incI
is federal doetrins,. and what word II lead
to but CIVIL WAR, the warR OF all svlis,
and which every friend of humanity viii guard
againh.
The Fedsrslifts acknowledged that MAORI