Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1807-04-20
By tbe aeatls.
NEw-YoRK, MARCH rs.
FEDERAL MEETING.

OF lh1S city aSSGMSiSu last evening III
the Mechanic Hall, f" to receive the re-
porIofthe committee appointed 20 nom
mate person as Senator for the South
ern District, and also nine persons as
members from tbs city in the House of
Assembly, and % recommend such
further measures to secure their cleo
ion, as should be thought proper and
ADVISABLE
The room, one Of the largest in the
city, was filled at an early hour, and be-
came at length so crowded as TO incom-
mode respiration the stairs were also
crowded with people great numbers
stood all the time in the street before
the door, and hundreds went away be-
cause they could not get in. The for
mer meeting when the committee was
appointed, was nearly as well attended.
At about half past seven, Mr.. John B.
Coles was called to the chair, MIR. Da-
vid B. Ogden then informed the chair
man that he had becn appointed by the
Committee who had framed the ticket,
to report it. But before he mentioned
the names agreed on, he thought it his
duty to address few remarks 10 the
meeting.
It's not IN our power, nor would our
limits permit us to attempt even an out
line Of the nervous and masterly speech
delivered ON thi. occasion.
lie took . glance at the prosperous
state Of our affairs during the admins
tration OF the Sage WAsHINoroN, aid
ed by the counSels Of a HAMILTON,
when the glorious sentiment was NIL
LIONS FoE DEFENCE, NOT A CENT FOR
TRIBUTE. But he FASTENED to the time
when the present chief magistrate was
elevated to power He observed that
altho' MIR. Jefferson had been elected
to tie presidency against the wishes
and efforts, and amidst the apprshcn-
SONS of the federal party, still were
DIZZY disposed to give him some credit
in advance ard to indulge the hope that
his administration might turn oat bet
ter than their fears had suggested. And
had he (said Mr. o. but kept the
promises which he voluntarily made
and published in his Inaugural speech,
this unusually crowded meeting would
not have taken place this evening. In
stead Of which the first acts of his adj
ministration were in direct hostility
with al his professions which only
served to confront him with and TO
prove hs was one of the most deceitfuI,
the most perhdous and the most intol-
Grant OF those ambitious and unprinci-
pied men who had raised thlmselvcs to
power by fattering the vices and caiol-
ing the weaknesses Of the people,
Mr. Jefferson, he said, had forever IA
lis mouth his regard for tho constitu-
ticn, and his vigilance over the public
monies entrusted to his care vet one
of his first acts after he came into pow
er, was To take 10000 dollars out Of
the public treasury, without any appro-
priation BY law, To pay for the repairs
done to the French corvette, the Der
ceau. This vessel had been taken by
our brave tars after fair and gallant
combat, but no sooner did Mr.. Jeffer-
son hear Of i, than he ordered her ID be
restored, and the sum Of $4,000 dollars
TO be paid out Of the public treasury to
indemnify against any injury she had
sustained. Another instance in which
he had acted contrary to law, in viola
tion Of the constitution, and in con-
tempt Of ell that was honorable, was in
the case Of Calender a libellous
wretch whom he not only liberated
from imprisonment, but actually re-
warded for his Infamous attacks upon
the federal government, with two hun
dred dollars from the public treasury
Mr. o. called the attention of the
meeting to the wicked attack upon the
Judiciary, for the purpose of gratifying.
Mr.. Jefferson's maleyolence against the
Judges Of the Circuit Courts because
they happened 10 be federalists. He
dwelt with emphasis on the stain upon
our national character, in permitting
Spain to violate her treaty in relation 10
New-O leans, and instead Of calling
her to account for it, compromising
and smcthering the controversy by a
pretended purcaase Of Louisiana, and
giving the sum OF fifteen millions Of
dollars fora country without boundaries
and whose face was covered with ger
penis and aliigators.--But not content
with having done this, in order to quiet