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

eohcise,.ezaIicit, and energetic, and forever
intelligihle.
But 1t is no more to be regretted, than il
is true, that but few people can read Mr..
Jefierson's Message, and understand what
they read.
"He. stnaioas sf mutation stiH, Giscards
/" Areut elegance, little as'd,
For '7roasnols novel:y and strasge Disguise. ?
IwoplId here just remark, what every
one, who q9Aprehends the message as he
reads VIII perceive, that it is destitute of
information, Patriotic feeling, and candid
remark.
Z Ia The FIRST SECTION Of this message, there
IS an avowd ct what sort of thing the EN-.
oarso was iHtenasl to be--a measure of CO.
tercion, ar offensive weapon Mr. Jofflr-
son says, !" lost no time in availins my
self" in the management Of our foreign
, concerns] "of the act authoiising sus-
pension, in whole Or in part, Of the several
embargo laws. sA4yVhat Ridiculous figure
our ministers at the courts of St. lanes &
ST. Cloud would cut, welding municipal
reg,istion Of the igorernmcutof The United
States, as weapon to compel England and
France 20 acquiesce IN our terms of adjust,
ing things in dispute They might as well
attempt, as my old friend The poet said,lto
I" Teach oaths 70 ga'nesters, u 70 a09dles zsit""
In this section. he further observes to
Congress - And open the way for re-
moval Of thatcommercial intercourse which,
lii was alleged on All sides, had been reiuc-
tautiy obsuucted"-And again: $ AS each
Of those governments had pledged its readi-
ness to concur in renouncing a measure
which reached its adversary through the IN
lcontes,ibls rights Ct neutrals only These
assertions appear erroneous TO ne, certain
M, and believe to all Americans. When
ibid France 'allege' that she reluctantly
lolstructcd' our commerce, BY issuing Der
tdecrees When did she pledge herre
ldiness' % our government 70 'renounce her
ldecrces,' On any condition it might offer
n she ever did, know it not. She may
have done so TO Mr. Jefferson, and that
i" pledgen may be in his secret closet per-
HAAS ; bat why DO not the People know it
The extent Of the British orders, under the
present situation Of things, was always said
BY the British government. and BY, may
SAY. almost every body, to De equal with
that Of the French DEGREES, and no longer.
They were issued to counterfeit the de-
crees, and when the DEGREES cease, the or
! ders wiz, and not be fore; and Of this cur
government have been advertised by Brit
administers. What should make cur Presi-
dent write as be does, I cannot see, except
III i that kind Of being, which. as Butter
saws.
Hope: 70 be saU'a, yet studies 10 be danln'd.'
Further along in this section, he tells
Congress, lie has now offered England
what She required Of US before she issued
her orders, 70 prevent their being issued
, that is, that we would resist the enforce
ment Of Bonaparte's DEGREES But she refu-
ses nozO to accept of his offer, because he
had refused to accept others. and therefore
Slie had been obliged to take her course in
dependent Of us, and it was too late 20 20
back and start anew, on plan which our
} President had rejected. This is always the
fate Of bullying system.
\ What his proposals, Crnentioned in the
irst section) were to France, the reader
must End out for himself construe his
Language TO mean, that lie offered to engage
siln The war against England, if the French
Emperor would comply with some requisi-
TOM which Mr.. Jefferson had made. What
these acquisitions were, we are to find ont
when the secrets Of our democratic cabinet
are developed,
| The mtrnL of lis assertion, that Bona
parte's Berlin decree was equally an act Of
retaliation as the British orders were. Is
much more easily detected ~ common
people, than his language is ineligible to
them.
in bis second section, Mr. Jefferson OBJ
serves IL 1.-THE EmbaIg,l, necessarily
remains IN he extent originally given to it,
what Is this cxteat ? or what does our
president mean by saying " extent original
F given to it y Was there any Limitation
, gwen 20 Il! Ifthere was not, it was and
) Is, a perpetual law : for since it was not
specifically bounded in its duration, the pre-
snlcm's word extern, could mean nothing
except 5syeprr or Perpetual Who says now,
II IS not a perpetual law If any, let him
stand forth and be tried by his own masters
words After saying SO much, and much
MORE OF ms favorite measure, our president
whlnes out one consolation to his believers.