Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1806-08-04

queition about the force equipped to
refrain the pirates Of France be-
caufe thar force was temporary, be-
caufe it richly repaid the expencr,
and becaufe the people never made
any queifion offs ulefulnefs and ne
eeiIitY.
The like may he faid Of the thirty
fly hundred men RATED in the twelve
regiments, at time when France
ient fifty thouiand to Egyps, and
might, for aught we knew, have fent,
them 70 Carolina or the Chelapeak.
As foon as tile alarm was over, they
were difbanded and now we have
got LoulGana TO govern, or more
properly have got il two or three
times over to buy, we want everv
folder there was In thofe IL regi-
mentsto keep order and law in tllat
region
AS to Taxes. Mr.. Jefferfon advi-
fed to repeal ieveraI on carriages,
loaf fugar and whif<y, tina: produced
about eight or nine hundred tbou-
land dollars year, aud he has Gnce
recommended and figned,the act for
creating what is called the Mcditer-
ransan Fund, which yields z,af a.
mount mare tsdn TIE repealed fases.
fif5 administration fater mare fran TIE
p0nkst5 81 tbe people, than hl protect
}Ess did. The income Of taxes We
believe Is how two or three millions
year more than from 1900 10
1900.
| Asto DeBfs-lf there i: any merit
in paying off debts, that 9erit belongs
TO the FEDERAL Administration. liz
was Hamilton's report, adopted By
Congrefs, the act we make no doubt
drafted by him, and which IS It'll
in force, that provided for paying the
debt, and which would have paid of
a prodigious amoEnt, if MIR. Jeffsr-
fen had not add 70 u the price of
Louifana and GOT the internal taxes
repealed. On this lat head there
fore, we boldly challenge the admi-
rers Of Mr.. Jcfferfon to make the
com PARTON Of his administration
with his predccefors.
They acknowledge for juR debts the
charges of our war, the fair price Of
independence. He, MIR Jefferfon, has
fwelled' their amount, BY his unfcr-
tunate fpeculations in wild land,
which are IT'LL going on.
One more topic of inquiry.
Still the democrats ..will FAY,
Wafhington's officers were corrupt;
unfaiIhful men. Their newspapers
have faid it, their leaders in Con.
grefs have faid it. But for years to-
gether they have had majority in
Congress, and the Federaliits were
only go members, yet they have not
proved one of thetc charges, nor
brought one federal officer to iuiticc,
which 1t was their duty, and every
body knows too their hearts deEre,
to do if they could.
Hence the inference is fair one;
and We think nor to be reiftcd, that
the men now in power have tilen
!, 6e0yi1g fa5f rUitns,5 qg4inf he
Frdsralsss and deefiVirg tie Seapls.
Parties are the mott violent, and
unprincipIed and desperate when
they are nearly balanced.
AT fuch times eysry PATTON runs
to extremes, and when PATTON rules,
Icalen viii not rule.
When paaty talks very loud, con-
fcience will not talk nor even Whit
per at all, bccaufc il would not be
heard or regarded.
Take, for an example, the late
CONTEXT for the choice of Governor.
Hi5 JsJdsm bsldtr paG i5 sver made
than 10 dpit one mars mare inc fzr0,
to make tsvs candidata-Sullivan and
Sulvan--or than to call Scattering
nan who received number Of votes
or than to fet aide the return Of
New-Bedford, becaufe another re-
turn was TENT on to. explain and Corr
ar.n the 6rft ; and to eHabIlll one
of the returns from Troy, when
there were two returns from two