Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1808-05-23
LAEPORIED P.dTRTQT9.

So long as this country is held UP as
2n " asylum for ohtreF5cd humanity"
Nv an administration who has eyinced
such uncommon zeal to admit them to
the rights Of citizenship, for the obyi-
Gus purpose OF increasing its support
ers-there never viii De wanting fugi-
tiyes from justice to avail themselves of
the asylum !" where (bu EUe years re-
sde7ce) they not only become great
patriots and inclined To inluse their
ideas Of government among IT'S, but fire.
quently collect in mobs and enforce it
by the powers az StaI4La. Hence we
nay account for the perversien w cor
rect principles jn our national govern
ment and the ruin Of the country
Inc following paragraph from Lon
son paper, will show what were the
calculations Of MIR. jefferson in making
tie louisiana purchase 60
The emigration u America from
the west Of Scotland, and sill more
from the north and west Of ireland, IL
carried To a much more alarming cX-
tea than is generally believed. We
ar told, that in 1901 Ho fewer than
l+001 souls were landed from Ireland
by the Philadelphia ships alone and
suPPosing the number conveyed by
ships to all tile other harbours 0f A-
merle equal only to that ot the PhiIa-
delPhIa ships, the yearly transport viii
amount to near $4,000 souls 7. No slave
ship was ever ~ crowded as the Amer
iican ships with passengers from Lon
doRderry. We have heard y ship Of
!2i5 tons took on board $50 passengers,
which with twelve Of the crew, MAKE a
totaI III $40, being double The number
allowed to be slowed in a slave ship ~
ana oLrtheD.-Lond2H Iiqher.
The Liverpool Packet, arrived III
Portsmouth (N. H. l4th inst. from
Ireland, brought between 10 and so
Passengers.
l That tl.ese Erirrants (who engross " large
po.tIcn Of public patronage t1 the cZcln-
sion Lt native citizens-bef0re uc pros
fer5d their aid In helping him tO the PIE
sidrnoy) were thought by Mr. Jefferson
q ngerous % tile liberties and welfare or
tie country, may rlainly be inf rred on
tie following extract from Ills notes on
Virginia ~
Every species of government has
Its specific principles. Ours perhaps
are more peculiar than those of any
uher il the universe. Tt is compo-
n-ion Of The freest principles Of the
English constitution, with others deii-
y. q from natural right and natural rea-
s7a. Ito these nothing can be more
Opposed than the mazims of absolute
ronar~hics. Yet, from such, We are
t. aspect the rreatest number of EnH-
gyms. hey viii bring with them
me principles Of the governments they
ieaYe, imblbed I'D their early youth
OF It able tex throw them Of, it viii By
III exchange for an ua5olmdsd Hcentf6u8-
"eSs' passing, as il usual, from one ex-
ueme to another. Il Tv7uld ~ mirq-
'O'O t@t9 20 SEql TTec2Sety M the |
pom ri TEMPERATE LIBERTY. These
principles, 18th their language, they
Vii transmit, to their children. iii |
Proportion 70 their numbers, they will |
shaTe with rs the LEoIsLArIov, They
vail iaipse INTO Il their spirit, warp and !
shd bias lts dlpecGons, and render it |
heterogeneous, tHcofereat, distracted |
mas. / may appeal to experience, |
eormg the present contest II American ,
Aeyolntionl for verifcation Of these |
sonJectnres. Buzz, if they be not GER
Y, Sn in the event, are they not proba- |
ole Is it not safer to wait with patience |
a years and 5 months longer, for the |
EsanpsRt Of any gree q population