Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1807-03-02
DaDlagQgue Hunting.


dows'-P56e's letter u Ar61tlrot.
THERE are, perhaps, no terms in
the English language. respecting which
the ideas ef mankind are more variant,
than in those which relate T. Personal
abuse and 5cuyfHty, The bold and I'M
principled yotary Of ambition, who i.
wading 70 cmineHce through every sPe-
cils of crime, the moment lie finds
himself exposed To the shaft Of satyrist
SITS up hue and ciy about shameful
personalities, and tells ms that it Is
disgrace to tie country, and stigma
on society, that such loIae should Le
tolerated.
We fully and freely agree with t..
apo'ogists Of JoE-rson, Duane s. Co
that the publications. which appear wy
the American twspar.rs, aea dis
grace 70 the American public but ha
disgrace ought to light exclusively uI-
on those 7vh sutfort E,Ilcol sl,a.ar,I,
kaolrtvg +h-m 10 br su-h, an' thus o.
bli5c their opponents 70 enter the lists
with men they despise, aid to whom
the language who. would BE dtcorous
IT'D accos,ing gentlemen, is not appHcd-
bic
We are told that the Fsgiish news
papers are less replete with personal
attacks than the American. d his maa
on true but it does not follow that the
treatment which would be correct il
opposition to the leading democratic
characters on that side Ol the Atlantic,
would be 50 on this.
America has become sort Of
roguea' asylum" The scum, t.o
froth OF Europe is poured upon US. |s
Mr.. Moore, an Irishman, expresses it
the federal editors have 70 contend
with
TIE moty d~cg~ Of every distant elm
Fac blast " anarchy, and ta'nt Of Grin
Winch Europe shakes from her perturi #
sphere,
II FUN MA ,ity to ranklc here"
These animals, many Of whom, Is 4
paddy said, on might have said, if they
had Hued at home till this time, would
have been hing years since, make their
way to America, and here all at once,
SGT up for gentlemen, forsooth, and I'M
tertake 70 palm themselves on the pub
I'LL as such /! And these creatures, and
their sac .ites, your right worshipful
MIR - r;,eri~.,, ,,,.,, 20 o,,,,I1,,v ..,~
open mouthed about ciriHty, and would
have YOU consider them as gentlemen
opponents to federal editors
When we read the effEsions of one
of your mincing halfway men of can
dour, cxerting himself by way Of being
polite to an opponent, whom he knows
to be totally destitute ef principle, NOR
ral or political and who is, in fact,
filter object for the notice Of the bea-
die or hsngman, than the satyrist the
following scene from Shakspeare's
" Measure for Measure" has frequent
y forced itself upon Us:
Enter ABHoRsoN.
A5hoyson.-Sirrah, bring Barnadine hither
Clovgr.-Master Banadine YOU must rise
up and be hanged, master Barnadine
Abho~aor.-What, no BaInadme
Ba'raline-(Wthin.) A pox O your
throats Who makes that noise there
What are YOU
Clo7u.-Y Your friend, Sir, The hang7,taa
1aa must Dc 50 gooa, Sir, o 70 rise and "a PIT
70 1eat4
he attempt Of federal editors to be
civil 10 those men who deserve to be
looted out ofthe society Of honest men
appears to me as foolish as the absurd
clyility of Shakspeare's clown on this
occasion. They seem to say, you
must be 50 GOOD, Sir, to rise and Be hut
~ drafh ~
We are sometimes referred to En-
glish political writings Of controver-
sial nature, for samples Of decency
mixed with due degree Of severity. |
But English political writer's had diff
tcrent class Of men for their opponents.
Had the antagonists Of Burke and Jul
MUS, been your Cheethams, your Du
anes, they would have Numbered un-
on them" They would have treated
them as the jacobins Of this country.
and indeed of all countries, deserve to
be treated, as traitors. Not merely
traitors to this or that particular govern
ment, but as the enemies Of mankind.
Men WHO maintain principles, which
are Incompatible with the existence Of