Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1808-08-01

LETTER Z
| don't ike the man, and there's
N ena u II. Nor do / like his friends
over and a5o2c il is tue lie began
We. aiId | vii fay never faw
better fpeech than his, at the begin
mig Of his proficiency =" We are all
Federailts, all Republicans, the only
auction ilall ask, fiid he, when
man is propofed for Office, ihall be,
IS he capable, is he honeit." 1 de-
clare | would have given Thomas
Tefehon the beh calf on my farm
for fpeaking fuch good words, bad he
come ana allzed for i. But talking
is one thing, and acting is another
Whether il was that the man meant
well, and the Democrats vino look
ed for ofice, would not LET him do
as he wiihed; or whether he mean;
10 tell foolilh lie, | don't Know, but
the fact is, he never asked any thing
about honefy or capabili,y, the word
was,is he one Of US, or is he a FEEDER
aIh and 70, he and Cid Granger
and all of than gave nothing, except
TO the democrats, and took what the
Federalits had, away and / can
prove that he gave offices 10 men
Of his own party who were neither
honeft nor capable, and took them
from Federaliits who were both. For
ny part d6n't ike fuch rafcally
ihuh7:ng-s years ne and his party
have been trucking 70 France and a
buGng the Britilh, and to crown all,
they are running the country with
their curfed Embargo. Why did
they not demand fatisfaction Of the
BritiGh when that fellow attackedthe
Chelapeake and if the Britiih would
not inhantly have given iatisfaction,
why did they not 60 to war with
them. Do you believe that we fhouli
have been worfe of in being at war,
than we are now If you do, you
have altered your creed, for you and
every mau Of your party > months
ago believed that we could and
l.ould detroy the Britilh trade root
add branch by going to war with
them--and now you know, for you,
though linked in with the wicked,
are an honeft man you know that
now, we are deltroying our own
trade; y-s,and our farmers and every
thing BY his Embargo. II is not
whether we or the Briti(h lhall do
each other mott harm, but whether
We can't harm ourlelves more than
they can harm US.
Tom Leiper, the tobacconiit, and
Duane, who was 4 Britiih man not
long lnce, and who is a Frenchman
now, and rench Cox, who piIotrl
the BriTifh in the American war, A.
gaintt his countrymen -thefr are The
FLOWS who fay the Embargo is an
excellent thing, and tell Mr.. JsfFcr-
fon that the country is glad Of it
But it is lie, for the country is not
glad Of it-no man can be glad Of be-
ing ruiaed.
lid Warrington and Adams and
the FederaIilts ever bring US to fuch
apafs as this /? No, Warrington had
a difpure with the Britiih, and ne
began 10 build lhiPs TO fight for his
own, if tair words would not do
and then the brit,lh thought better
Of it and made treaty with US.
You remember how Bohn Jay, who
IS as honeit man as ever hePped,
and knew the interef OF the United
States little better than your Mon
roe, was blackguarded for he treaty
he made and what would you give
10 have fuch a treaty now 7 The
French played tricks with Us, and
wanted US to pay tribute John
Adams fent his fhips our and they
beat the French, and there was an
ed Of the mstter-Yes we beat
sheir ihips and took them, and
troagl,t them in aud condemned
them. TIE FedeTaGfs were NOT a