Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-12-05

iAsi CHdiStS SlhCc yohI last SESSION. lfS
Important negotiations With Spair which had
been alternately suspended and resumed,
necessarily experience a PAUSE under the ex-
iraordinary and interesting crisis which dis
tinguishes her internal situation Here
would ask, and beg some politician, if lie
can correctly, TO answer me, what negocia-
tons were on the carpet with Spain and
with whom were they attempted to be eff
fected Was it with the real Spanish gov
ermnent Ii so, why does negotiation ne
cessarily experience such pause Why
withdraw all communication or intercourse
with Spain, At This time, il important nego-
cations were going on with her before her
present extraordinary crisis arrived
Would, our ancestors have thought it worI
thy, just, or impartial conduct in govern,
ment, who were in the relation to us at that
time, that we are now 70 Spain, had such
government withdrawn from them, as tho
they were rebels, opposing rightfuI and
proper sovereign! Does il not appear, BY
what the President has said, that these i'm
Portant negotiations were going on with
some other power than with the real gov
ernment Of Spain And does it not fur
Their appear, that our administration dare
not negotiate with the Spanish patriots,
with the real Spanish government, for fear
Of offending their great enemy but Messrs.
jefferson e Madfsoa's "great and good
ffiTend' Bonaparte
pass over the seventh section, but can
not but notice some parts of the eighth,
they SO strikingly raise ones admiration.
When read this section to one of my
neighbors. he asked me to pause at the
phrase a part Of ourselves, and inquired
If ] had not read wrong for, said he, Mr..
jefferson must certainly have been thinking
Of negroes, instead Of Igdiazs, when he wrote
that When read Mr.. Jefferson's sug-
gestion Of citizenizing the Indians, my
neigh5or was confident our President was
laying scheme TO insure another election
for himself, Or some good FRIEND num-
Der Of years hence. Formy own part, re-
collected imm ediately, by spur Of some
wandering thoughts that were floating in
my mind, what my uncle Peter Pindrr said.
in one Of his ludicrous odes, and could but
think, that Mr.. Jefferson would answer We
ry well to
Improve The zyisdonr efthe comnlOn 4seal,
:" ind feach The sample nafives hozS to steal"
l grow weary of handling such missha-
pen, idle thing of a message. A few more
remarks, and will leave il.
Mr.. President, solre where il this paper
says, that the losses and sacrifices Of our
citizens, Occasioned not by the embargo,
but b. the injustice Of the belIigerent
powers, are subjects Of just concern but
never proposes any relief, nor even SO much
as suggests to Congress, that it would be
necessary! He must be a philanthropic
president" indeed
His ostentatious account Of the products
of our revenue, which owes its existence &
nourishment to the federal administrations,
i clear electioneering dose, and will
doubtless be eagerly swallowed by his par
tizans. Yet, l fear, he had still greater
object in view--indeed it appears evident
There DlHst Be another inroad upon the Cosrsti-
tuition Z There is, as he says, money in the
Treasury, and it must not stay there. The
constitution is jet barrier to his own, and
his party's wishes and this is the time to
remove that barrier The constitution
must be amended, to give Congress power
to appropriate money as the President says
or perhaps, to give the President power
to appropriate it as he pIeases.
People Of New-EngIand look to tt
Where is your money going, when your
constitution shall be so altered that presi-
Genital influence can draw it from yourpub-
lie chest, from the national deposit, to make
roads for southern nabohs, TO ride more ca
sy IN theirfine carriages I; to assist southern
people TO navigate their rivers to instruct
southern negroes in democracy and French
principles and to teach Mr.. Jefersoa's In
dams the arts Of subtle politicians If It is
not, then, going to affect these purposes,
what win it be drawn from the treasury for
Ifnot these twill be for something worse
1oa make your own roads you build your
own canals jon clear your own rivers you
educate your own children with your own
money, industry and enterprise and shall
you be made to assist those who are too idle
or too profgate TO assist themselves. No,
you will forbid it. ROLAND.
THE CONSCRLPTION!
In the last Gazette, notice the General
Orders for the detachment Of MIR. JET