Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1806-10-13
3eoIitifaI spisreIldnp.
FROM THE PEOPLES FRIEND.
TO THE HON. Tt: JEFFERSON
President Of fbs United States.

SIR,
THE unsxampled fecblenefs and
impolicy of your administration has
ar length encompafied you with diff
ticuities OF TOO great magnitude and
number, for fpirit and talents fuch
as yours TO encounter, with the fmall
cit probability of fuccefs. The very
arts by which you crept into power,
and the wretched fyifem or policy by
which you have for 70 many years
retained your popularity are now in
the natural courfe Of their operation,
revolving back upon yourfclf.-
To take hin: from one of your own
notable efuGeas, |" The full tide of
your experiments" is turning, now
rolls back upon you and GIBBS apace,
and you are driven TO an alternative
the mott grevious imaginable to your
perfonal feeings-Eithcr to meet
Spain and her mifrefs France in the
field, or to betake you to the more
innoxius folly of caricaturirg natural
Philo(ophy, and writing notes upon
gnats at MONTICELLO. Your i:t-
uation is indeed, 70 emphatically
miserable, that not to pity yoa were
great crime, if not to condemn
you were not greater.
He who has the power, the purfe'
and the patronage Of an opulens ma
tion at his command, as you have,
will never want defenders, however
WORTHLESS he may be hinielf, or how
ever wicked his purpose You have
had yours Never didthe mountains
of Switzerland pour down into the
Tich plains Of Europe, at the call of
murderous ambition, more fierce
or unprincipled horde Of hirelings
than have graced your march through
ruinous adminiitration Of FIX years.
The fermenis Of the world were IA
vourablc to you in this refpe4, shrow-
ing upon tie furface Of fociety fu-
peEabundance Of that kind Of recre.
ment which was mott fuitable to your
purPofe, and enabling you to enli!t
on your fde, ag2init the good Of your
country, hofto Of auxiiiaries, who
found in you an Object they could eG-
pouic wi;hou.tEe Aightef detection
from their own feelings, and in yours
yfem which they might defend
without apofatizing from their own
principles. In one refpcd they afor-
ded you unequal advantage over the
good men who were your adverflries.
They had learned in the French fchool
70 allow themielves no. checks from
thoie moral laws, which it was the
primary work of the French revolu-
ton to deltroy. Provided the end
was attained, they felt no rcpugnance
about the means by which they attain.
ed il. The barriers of truth being
long brokerdown, or elfc over-leaped
the unbounded field of invention Law
open to them, and there they ranged
atlarge in fearch of attributes foryour
decoration, which your ns0dtfy never
before dreamed of, and of facts, for
your fupport, which never had exis-
rence. They were at call to enforce
your purpo(es by thearguments which
it was mott competent TO fuch heads
and fuch hearts to help you to.
They were ready to fcribble and to
brawl as well as they could, and to
murder the fame andthe means of the
bcf men of the land. So long, there
tore,as ilory, no matter whether true
crfaIjs, tOld zUitbout a 6lni5 argued tip
on with he6toring effrontery, and
backed with influence and office could
ferye for your support, all went well
with you. 20 long as fcantling of
puff pate praise, was ftrong enough
to fupport you; you were fate. Your
measures in any department. could
not want for pauegyriits, hnce in ev-
cry department there were cmolu-
ments and Offices at your difpoial
Though you had no court-creaturc
fPecially paid and appointed TO pandar
mules tor formal birthday ode, you
had multitude Of encomialts who
Sould taliify in PrOfr ,and who, how