Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1806-05-12
( Squatters," g Squatters."

The Cbyonic!e fcribblers have fhewn
much irritation at the remark made
on the Sullivan votes which have this
year been given by the numerous
6" qnatters," in the diflricf Of Maine ):
and with their ufual love Of fallhood,
have declared that this appellation
was given to oil the voters in Maine.
Wh3n they faid this, they knew it
to be falfhocd. They knew the
term applied to thofc-and thofe oniy
who have fettled, or Jqnstted on
lands which did not belong TO them,
and who, as Judge PAlNx, once faid,
"baVe taken the colt, ns7v demand a bill
Of Eae Of the b0rft." 1t is this fort of
people IN 1iaine, who have made the
increa)f Of democratic votes this year.
And the proof Of the fact is, that
in MeDacbyfets diltrid Governor
STRoNC's votes have this wear incre~E
cd more than 800 mare than Mr.. SUI
LlvAN's. The federal detection in
M@lne has been very ftnall, and can
all be traced TO one fource. But it is
the people, who have ~en denomin-
ated {" "sHatter5" by their own friends
in the Legislature, who have made
the great increale of the SULLIVAN
votes. They have been rampered
with by democratic caucus-dema-
gogues; and made to believe the
mott infamous and barefaced lies.
They have been told, by men who
have the hypocricy to call themfelves
H0H9rable, that if they voted for
SULLIVAN and his coaajutors, they
would be quoted in their lands but
IT they did not, that STRONG would
compel them to pay for their lands
lslmcdia1ely, or eject them from
them.-lhat SULLIVAN had avowed
hlmielf their friend and thatSTRoNG
had declared himfelf their iaveterate
enemy. Other falfhoods, equally as
deteltable accompanied thefe I; and
were told them by men, who knew
while their tongues were giving ut
terance to the tales, that they were
taits as he'll. Thele fa!fhoods have
Inundated thefc people 20 the mott
violent exertions, and the mott un-
lawful conduct of which it is hoped
dePoiltionS will be taken, and for
warded to the Legislature And
, this accounts for the unprecedented in
ersafe OF votes in many returns
Mere politics have had very little in
tiuence to create changes in Maine..-
MIR. KING, in the Houfe of Repre-
fentatives, the laft feflion, confefed
in his feat, thar the aObole csn/e of
the political change in Maine was to
. be found in the meafures taken by
Government to effed legal fettlc-
ment between the quafterS' and
the original proprietors of the foil.
he made ufc of the word :" SHatter5 )"
not as term of reproach, but as an
acknowledged diitinetive appellation.
The fo,t of people thus demonstrated
are well known.-Thc outragcs they
have committed, in firing upon fur
vcyorS, and deterring the ownets of
lands from entering on them, are
not unknown 10 the Attorney-Gen-
eral nor is it out Of his reccollec-
ton, that one Of his Befon demo-
cratic friends, few years fince, had
his ears cut off, or much dishgured,
BY thefe fame {" qHatfers," when in
the difcharge of lawful duty
Such are the people who have fwell-
cd the democratic returns.
We repeat the fact, and it is ve-
ry important one, that in the part of
the Commonwealth formerly called
Me0SebaIftts, Governor STRONG is
THIS YEAR elected by majority of
more than FOUR THOUSAND
votes. and notwithstanding the boaft-
ed federal DETECTION, and democratic