Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1806-05-12
Political.
For tbe PORTLAND G1zErrE.


impofe a Governor on Mafachu-
ictts pat which the Argus man
takes fire, and, in rage, cries out
1" Republicans-ir is hoped you will
duly appreciate this iNssLr, before
you choofe your Reprefepta:ives. -
A man not acquainted with the cha
ratters of that portion of the people
Of this fate who have taken the name
Of Republicans, in OppoGtion to the
Federaliits, would naturally inquire,
where is the infuIt to the people of
Maine, or the republicans of Maine,
in this queition, if the people in ge-
neral, or the republicans of Maine
are not fquatters And if they are,
it will rather be taken as a iuif GER
iure, than an iniult. But the repub-
licanS are fore all over; touch what
part Of them you will and they fhrink
they inhantly feel the fmart =
Hardly vice can be named before
a company Of r<tzbLicans, but each
feels for himfe!f or his leader, as very
few of them know enough to go a.
lone, and is ready to fwear one or
the other is pointed at. Hence if a
clergyman, for feveral years paft, has
preached againft atbeJln and iirreli-
giOn, the republican part of his con-
gregation have taken offence, becaufe
they we'll knew their dear republican
friend Tam PANE, and perhaps their
more Ja5fantiaI friend Ibenla5 1efey-
son, from whom thsy had received,
or expect to receive good fat office,
are both Of them culpable fubic6s of
the preachers denuncia,ion. The
alarm the Argus-man has taken on
this ocoaion is hardly to be account
ed for but by recourie to the fympa-
thy that is fuppofed to exit among
all characters of the fame clafs, whe-
ther virtuouS or vicious. They have
fellow feeling for each other; and
to cenfure vice or applaud virtue and
integrity, thefe republicans confider
equally fatire on themfelves.
In the fame paper the citizens Of
Maine and Of Manachufetts are cal
led upsn. by the Argus-man, to
chooie republican houfe of reprefen-
tatives, and then, he fays, all will be
harmOnioD5 zOitbin and 1vhbom that
is, when the republicans make ma
jority in the Legislature of this fate,
as they do in Congrefs, there will be
no inquiry, within this fate, into the
conduct of thofc who have received
public money without rendering an
account-and there fhall then be no
sppoition, by the fate, to the hea-
brarfed J0Srs0n and the complying
Madison making what tribute Of mo-
ney to their filter republic Of France
thsy pleafe.
Ever Gnce Munroe, in violation of
his inftructions from PreGdent Wafh-
ington, propofed to lend 1fvs millions
of dollars to France to enable her to
carry on the war fhe was then en-
gagged in againit England, and that
PropoGtion was negatived by Wafh-
iDgton and the federalies of thofe
times, the republican party, headed
by Jefer50n, NaliJon, and fome of
the leaders in both houfes of Con-
grcfs, have been al their wits end
to invent fome pretest or other under
which they might give money to
France. AS foon as Jeferfon was
Prefident, under pretence of purcha
fng LouiGana, fifteen millions of
dollars went to republican France =
This was negotiated BY the fame
Munroe whom Warrington had re-
called in difgrace for barely making
the propofitiOn Such is the differ
ence in politics between the departed
Warrington and the popular Jeffer-
fon. But it feemS theie fifteen nil
lions of dollars arc expended, and the
United States have been called upon
again, by France. to contribu,s two
millions nore-theie too ars fent off
under the aufpices of .1Fer50n and
Madi5on --and now the republicans
through the fate Of Mafachutstts are
called upon to fcnd fucn men, all TO
Ae bon repR5iiiean5 IN TIE trDs F,en.b
file, to repre1ent her the enluing