Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1808-08-08
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4 did mt mean to be harih in my
laa letter for / have a regard for you
You and many other houeit men
;,;ned the democrats becaufc YOU
,bought and achieved thar John Ad-
ans with his ftamp act and his gag
law, as you called it, was going too
far and 70 you turned about and vo-
Ted the fcderaliits out, and brought
IN the Others and things appeared
70 work 70 well for a while that ma
nv other honet men thought they
had been wrong in fuppocring the
federaliifs, and turned about too
bur the old gentleman has flown the
cloven foot at lalt, and now honelt
men will turn from him. / did not
much like the famp act myfelf, be
caule the Briti[h had impoied ttamp
act upon us once, and | hated the
name but | found after while,
that | had no Iced to pay any thing.
made 10 note higher than twenty
dollars, and twenty dollar notes, you
remember, were not to be ltamped--
the rich, to be fure, who dealt large
lg, had TO pay roundly, becaufe
man who took obligations for thou
iandS would not take the trouble to
make d.. 100 notea-but that was
nothing to me--and as to the gag
law, it allowed the truth to be given
in evidence and, between you and
me, I think that If a man tells id
lies OF another, as Calender and his
friend and partner did Of Mr.. Adams,
he ought to fmart for it. Morgan
Lewis & Ambrose Spencer don't fay
10 though. AT the trial OF II. Croft
well, Judge Lewis and lawyer Spen-
Ger laid the truth hould not be given
in ev;dence-they faid the greater
the truth, the greater the libel
Thefe are both leading men in your
party now-but I'm for telling The
truth and flaming the Devil-that IS
to fay, when il is necehary-though
] don't know there was any neceiIi-
ty for telling all that, about black
Sal, and Gabriel Jones, and fuch
ituf-btt all men have their faults,
aud the federaliits have talked too
much about Mir. Jeffcrfon's not be-
fieying in religion, and about his
black woman, and 70 on. would
not look at men, bur at meaEures -
For inftanAc, | would look at the fed
eral direct tar, and then at the tax
es of the prefcnt partly paid los.
Cd. to the hrit, and | believe in mn
confidence, Ihave paid 100 10I and
Q pences 10 the latter-the high price
we got for produce under Adams,
you know, introduced extravaganza,
and when once we begin to be ex-
travagant, we can't flop. ny wife
and daughters mutt have Ghop goods,
and my bows had their cloth coats
with Geeyes big enough for four arms
we did not think how many per
cent. was laid on thefe articles by
the cultom-houie, and we did not
care, but we paid more tax for muC-
Inns, and fhawls, and fuch trumpet
~. than we did to the direct tax
but with al the eleven millions Of
dollars the people paid for imported
goods yearly, your party could not
GET along-~you were obliged to fell
the 2 millions Of ftcck we had in the
bank of the II. 6tates--it is a great
pity the democrats fold that itock-
the Federalilts had laid it up againft
a rainy day, and now we fhould be
glad Of il, becaSEs, for what l fee,
we mua 90 70 war with the Britifh
or the French, and ws fhali need a
little money, and fhis curfsd Embar-
! 20 prevents z fhiIling coming in.
We faall want money to build
hips, for thofe we hTl have been
fold by your party, and we never
~ca~ think of going to war without
hps-gun-boafs won't do on the
oceae--indeed If we fhould he tax-
ed to build fhips, ] don't kno1g where
we arc 70 ger ailots, they arc all
esne-Poor fellows. they were O.
tsg5d to 60 o. Carve, and I'll be