Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1807-05-18
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FROM THE PEOPLE FRIEND.

picture OF the RUNS Oh SoCiClS WHICH Hdo
Seen undermined by the pick-axes ofFrance,
| Or to speak less fguratively OF people a
mong whom French JacObin principles have
made dreadful havoc. Wise and honest
| americans have now the mortihcalon to
see the fairest city, the most elegant and
| opulent on their mighty cortlreat, governed
l by Jacobinism-and as IS always the case
| where the doctrine prevails, governed by
| IAcOBIN ARIsToCRAcY, emanabng here,
l as IN most parts OF the union, from gener-
| al Chief who has not spared to evoke the
powers OF Hell for that qualification which
his nature and the order appointed BY Hea-
| ven for the course OF human affairs would
! forever have denied him and who TO OBJ
| tain dominion over his cOuntrymen has sub
| tllly and treacherously opened a gate in the
4 rampant Of their constitutional defence thro'
which hosts of the corrupt population of
the old countries thrown upon this during
The dissentlons, rebelions, tire aSons, and TIN
eXampled horrors of the last fifteen years,
| nave made their triumphant entry, and UNI
der his banners laid waste the growing har-
| vest Of the Revolution and its promised in
| dependence, and by their weight in cleo
tons given Legislators, legislatures, and Of
course laws to his country. What the
| complexion, what the quality and what the
| consequences must be of any thing such
| men can give, is written in black and red
| in the history of Europe for the last few
years. This, that man did in direct contra
| diction to his own principles laid down in
| the moment of leisure retirement. He wan
ted to write a book, and having at the tine
no adequate temptation to the contrary, he
| spoke what he bought truth and what re-
| ally was so. He protested against the easy
| admission Of foreigners to the right of suf-
frage. But in a short time a new yisto opens
to his view. AS vanity urged him to write
the book, ambition urged him To contradict
| 1t, and he records in the sanctuary Of his
country's laws-in Congress-an opinion in
direct contradiction to his former and with
| crocodile tear over "obbyessed ku1laritg'
| recommended the admission OF foreigners "a
the right Of suffrage.
This is the first point Of view in which
| the event ofthe late election demands ex-
pCsure motives of the person above
mentioned-the nature Of the principles lie
has introduced yhat kind Of an article Of po-
/ Htical traffic that is which, with his custom.
AIRY fulsOme quaintness, he calls oppressed h.
7nani1 shall be exhibited in glarlng colours.
The second point n which the election
demands TO be considered, is the frightlul
| turpitude Of the means, and the abOminable
crimes practised by the faction 20 procure
| success.
Men were sworn IN Citizens, who were
| not IN America half the time, prescribed by
the law even under the shameful laXIty Civ
en- to the qualification Cfvoting by the infiu.
| ence and a6ice Of A4r. JcfersOn.-It must
indeed be sufficiently Notifying 60 native
| Americans, or to old Denizens established
by long residence md useful labor, rooted il
the soil by property laudabIy acquired, and
| BY long observation well informed Of the
| country's interests and intimately conversant
with the characters, talents, moral qualities
and means of service Of che men for and a.
| ;5alnst whom they are called upon to vote,
| TO see themselves msOlently confronted on
the hustmgs by men who if they had the
learning and the genius Of a Johnson,
Burke, and Fox all pUt together could in
| the time they have been here be no more
than sufficiently filled with information to
decide between the candidates, but who on
the contrar illiterate, ignorant, and from
the very necessity oftheir situation destitute
OF the power Of Judging, not only from want
| q local and personal acquaintance, but from
want Of habitual exercise Of their reflection,
can never be other than the mere instru-
ments Of a faction and arc the more danger
Gus and unfit for the. right Of suffrage, be-
cause they never Before hadrights of sim
liar kind, end -ause they rushed into the
country full ofme destructive principles, in
stllled into them AZ home by Jacobin dema-
gogues and under the guidance or rather
the headlong impulse Of which they brought
ruin and death on many thousands Of their
countrymen, and barely escaped it them
selves BY fight from the ihsultcd laws Of
their country.
1t is positive fact, that at the last Elec-
ton at Charleston there would have been an
immense federal majority, had it not been
for the French and Spanish Emigrants who
lately took Asylum there, and numbers of
whom have a exclusively by the charity
9TH beu~ 5fpeople there.
The next '-. in order Is the calumnies
For assure>s,y such have never been heard
of--palpable, open, manifest, and except to
the gr1 81 ignorant, self-damning calumnies
We do not know whether we ought un-
der this head to rank the gross imposture
SAID to hayssbeen practised on the Morning
Chronicle Jacobin, who palmed upon
it paragraph as from tederaiIst, contain
ing a most unwarrantable, wicked, malig-
nant, and unjust attack upon the whole l.
rish people.
Lastly, the perfdy of certain pessons, WHO |
being of The true Jacobin Kidney came o.
CT only to betray, just Ike Bonaparte's q
gents in this and every her country SCOT
and flatter those the, come among, and at
feet to run him down, IN order to turn about
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