Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1807-03-30
ClfcricRerinS.
FOR THE PORTLAND GAZETTE.

NO 10 our postel1ty enJOlns Il upon Us
soon 10 exercise our cOnsdtuuonainSh
oi suffrage IN the choice oi Chief Magis-
rate for the ensuing year. On so IN
teresting crisis rs the present, when
atiuns around Us are deIuSed III blood,
nd when internal commotlon and civil
dlsCord threaten US, IN obscure lndI ID
ual Of your number begs your mdul-
geuCe tor d moment WnIle he addresses
YOU, no. in the language Of science, OF
in the tulsome strains OF fiattery, but Ii
the plain and simple language OF the
heart one who ietls himself interest
cd in the happiness and peace of socle-
ty.-A quiet subject OF the Govern
mtIt VINO never sustained an Office el-
thcr III Church or State, but considers
it his uu.y to conform 10 the laws and
institutions oil both--whO has many
motives of seit-interest TO induce him
% tail IL with the prevailing politics of
the present DAY, and nothing out strict
Justice and SINGERS regard Tor lis own
dear country (Which he never was out
ut) to induce en- TO staEd to the princi-
pies OF NAsHINGTON and ADAMS
one VINO views the present period as
ominous OF events, fatal 10 our dear
bought rights and privileges-iatal TO
that independence which was declared
by the friends and fathers of our COM
mon county In l776--which has been
So nobly maintained and so happily ell
lOYtu by us IOr more than thirty years
past. / hat we have been highly IA
v0rtd as a notion-that since the organ
ilation OF the federal government we
have moved peace at home and re-
speCt hOn abroad--that our increase
Id wealth ana numbers has excited the
envy Of surrounding nations--nonc will
deny. Ellng fcd By the hand of cur
American Moses and Joshuat we
have become great among the nations
OF tAe Dartu--tuOusands have sacrahced
thtiI lives in defence of that liberty
which We eujoy--ior this many Hero
h4s fought and bled. Notwithstanding
All this, (sucn is the deprayity Of the
Eum y hearth there are men who seek
70 Oh us of this inesdmable blessing
o. Mag, arttul and aspiring men,
VIZ E.t Joab aCCO5t MS I'D tre language
Of hlo.iNauip while they conceal a dag
"e~ lor our destrucuon-Wao like Abe
SCION st~a. the hearts OF the people by
ilaucry-iike wolves in eeps clothing
--I.C Judas who BETRAYED with a kiss
-such neE by snch arts have caused
tne people to "" increase continually"
with them-the Patriots who laid the
foundation Of our independence, are re-
jccted and treated as enemies TO their
beloved country, whose cause they es-
poh5cd ~ times Of peril, TO the hazard
OF their lives, and for the support Of
which they have spent tile meridian of
Their days-Mr. Jefferson has said
we are all Fcderalists we are all
Republicans" ~ think he might have
excepted few such characters as has
Just been limited at and classed them
"nder the head Of disorganizers, or
traitors-a vast majority of the Amer
lcan people however, are undoubtedly
friends 10 their country, at heart, wheth-
CT they arc called federalists or repubh-
cans, they have one and the same object
in v'eW-but there is an u fnite differ
enCc between t.y instlgatNS and abct-
ors Of modern republlcanism and the
l~dcr4lists who oppose them-these
self styled republicans are plotting our
:uin--Ihe fcdtraiists remain the same
immoveable aid invariable friends to
their country at the present moment,
Chat they were on the day when the
great and good WAsHINGroN was
seated in the presidential chair, and
have constantly advocated those mea-
sures which tended to make US happy
and prosperous-they formed the fed
eral constitution, ratified and confirmed
It il theStates, and have ever been the
firm supporters Of Thence they are
denounced by these disorganizers-
They are falsely called'' Old Tories"
evidently with "a design to impose on
the credulous and to lessen their conf
deace in their best fricnds-For the
same purpose they are called monarch
lists, than which nothing can be more
absurd, unless our constitution is
monarchical system, for they have not
made even an attempt at innovation
upon that, but always defended it--on
Washington 1 Adams