Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1806-12-08

well known on the contrary, It is
one Of thofe facts, which often brings
the blufh into the cheek fhrivelled
with age-and caufes the hoary head
to fhake with painful indignation.....
1t is mentioned, bccaule it ought to
be kept in northumberland
ter, when history fhall have taken
the mafk from thefc deIuders of the
people, when impartiality fhaIl diff
Germ their naked villany, the young
American will reprefs The tear Of hon.
eft difdain, and ftarr to think bis
country was 70 early on the verge Of
perdition.. HE will fee the bottom
Of thofe pretentions, which now be-
guile US ;-and with forrow will learn
to dinruf man, whom he will often
difcover to be the baie diiTcmbler Of
the virtues, for the fecure confumma.
ton of the vices remembering what
FepeIon makes his mentor fay, " the
wicked are not incapable Of doing
well they indifcrently do good and
evil, as may ferve their ambition. =
lie will fee the lubric folds by which
the ferpent Of democracy entwines
the prejudice; of the ilIiterate ltrang-
ling infant reafon IN the arms Of its
guardian and defender. He will
draw parallel between ours and The
free governments, which have pre-
coded marking the itepS by which
the unpriucipled in fuch governments
have always gained temporary afcen-
dancy'-The defpotilm Of a Piffra-
tus. founded while vet the grea law
giver of Athens was living, will give
him vigilance the fecelion Of de-
luded Roman multitude TO Mount
Sacer, will give him leflon Of hu.
man nature the names OF Rienzi
and Wat Tyler, will teach him to de-
teit the demagogue, while he will
learn to deprecate Machiavelian poll
cy in the characters Of a Calar Bor-
gia, and Jeferlon.
But to return from what | hope,
will not prove ufelefs digreGion,
we will follow little farther the en-
uoGties Of the revilers Of federalifm,
or, in other words, the innovators
upon our contribution. When our
government moulded TO the wiihes
of the citizens, thofe who had nur-
tured it to maturity, were chofen, as
by fort of legitimate claim, TO ad-
minrter it. Their exertions were
efficient. The defolations Of war
rapidly disappeared, giving place to
the luxuriant harvef Of PROPERTY,
and the animating harmony Of con-
tentment. The contribution was
found to be, what the mott fkilfuI
matters Of theory had thought it, the
fairelt charter of human liberties /,
the firit executors of it continued, as
their revolutionary fervices had prov
ed them, temperate, but unyielding,
veterans in the caufe of their country.
While the people were, therefore,
prosperous and happy, We might
have expected, if semagogues would
prelerve conGitency, that the antifed-
cral clan would dilI openly war againf
our government. in its progrefs, as
they had warred againit it III its ORR
gin. But they played deeper game.
They perceived, that great part Of
the community received it with en-.
thuGafm, and cherilhed It's trainers
with affection. They faw it too firm
ly eRabliihed to yield to any fudden
concuiIion hence with fubtIeiy
peculiar to them, they at once be-
came its extravagant eulogias.-
With unblulhing efrontery they now
applau ded contribution they were
known to deseft in their fouls and
carried on fecrct warfare againit
men, whom, at the fame time. they
pretended with all the world TO ad-
mire thus calculating TO excite fuG