Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1808-10-24

which you and your candidate stand 70 me
alustrious Washington
win now consider your objections to
ur. Leland. Gle cannot speak" Let US
~ him eight years, and if he continues ST
lent all the time, we will then abandon him
As one incapable Of defending our rights, or
who has treaoherously soId them to the lords
of VIrginia. Should he ever vote to extin-
guish the state balances, and give up de-
mand against the United States to benefit
Virginia, we will forego our personal at
tachment, and abandon the man for the sake
Of the cause,
Another objection seems to be, that " he
has not had college education" It's true
he is not one of those who has nothing but
The reputation of his university to recon-
mend him but lie has acquired rePuta'
ton in the army, which all the slaves Of the
Cuts family can never tarnish.
Again, Mr.. Leland is {" the Lawyers can
didate" You state something of his being
apatted on the shoulder by federal law
YER" and then subIoin, keep your coun-
tenance, reader !" as much as to say, here's
.a.aeskiaq dyoRg Without this index, doc
tor, / should not have suspected this to Be
syit. From mere oomplaisance to you, now
ever, lid snsLe--it was not such smile as
you might expect, but such an one as your
writings arrays est0rt-a smile OF contempt.
Do you expect by these insinuations to in
duce belief that Mr.. Leland is attached to
the profession, or has much employment for
them, Dou you think, SIR, that the yeo-
many of our county, who, for these twenty
years have attended our courts in different
capacities, can be persuaded that Leland
has more connection with courts and law
yers than Col Cuts and his family Why
did you not state that Leland was opposed
70 fee bridge over Saco river, and Cuts
was in favor Of il You might have made
the people believe It. And the Possibility
with you, is a sufficient Involvement for the
statement
This single charge against Leland, shows
70 what pitiful shifts your party is reduced.
a party who are glad to take the dregs of
the profession to prop their tottering cause,
will endeavor TO render Mr.. Leland mpop-
ular by calling him the ia1yye,'s candidate.
You have done blushing at inconsistencies,
fyou ever began But the people may blush
for yoa, when they recollect that the sbotless
lawyer Sullivan is your Governor, the pious
lawyer Lincoln. your lieut.. Governor, the
inpartiaLT2wyer Dana goas the president of
your democratic Senate, and the oAasfe law
yer MortoB the speaker Of your democratic
House. fAaAso this the character and re-
spOnsibiiftysR1those lawyers in the county,
whom you cherish as the supporters Of your
cause, and be silent
Your adherence to party names, proves at
once your barrenness Of invention, and your
attachment to falsehood The expressions
British hirelings,' old tories eight per
cent loans,' gag-laws,' &c. are indeed We
ry familiar to you, and constitute the sum Of
your arguments. The tue first have been
used for so many different purposes by your
party, that they cease to answer any purpose,
except to render it contemplate. The third
serves to remind us Of the thiyy per cent
leans negotiated at SacO, and the effects they
have on the elections. And the fourth is ey-
idence of the alarm in your party, by any
attempt to prevent falsehood. This was it-
srdILy a gag law, as it respected yourself &
your party Had il prohibited truth, instead
Of falsehsod, neither you, would have com
planned for there was no danger Of your
violating i. Your enmity to a law which
checks darling propensity, is to be expect
ed, especially when il has rendered that
propensity ALREADY e%teasive. see you have
been ingenius in cze thing, and readily give
you credit--For the old slang word Of your
party office hotdeys, you have substituted 81
fee seekers. This was good policy charity,
YOU know, begins It home.
Your prescriptions discover you as much
tie quack in Poiitios as in Physie-They aP-
pear to be governed By the fee. You re-
commend the National Iuteligencer, Auro-
r., &c. to cure political errors-hnd why
not the Argrs ? Is it, when prepared by
you, too apt to nauseate HTfhoat your pre-
paratiOns, it still night, with few Ignorant
people, have been esteemed a sovereign
remedy"-zgitA them, it has become as con-
tempuble as the quack who prepares it.--ln
tie true Spirit Of quackery, instead OF pre-
scribing for the disease, you endeavour oy
ebiates to reconcile pour patient 20 Il, until you
have made your fortune out Of his estate.
THE EMBARGO is the disease, occasion
ell BY experiments, introduced by political
quacks. The people know it, and viii look
to better men than Jefferson, Madison, or
your college bred candidate for relief Your
disintere sickness Is well understood. It is