Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-02-15

COMMUN MIC ALTON.


Constitution, the democrats have as
sumed almost as many different names
Of distinction as PRoTEUs of old was
wont to assume shapes When in the
germ they opposed the adoption Of tine
federal constitution, they were stiled
anti-federalists at the commencement
of the French revolution they gloried
in the title Of Jacobins and since Pres
ident Jefferson's inaugural speech, they
have had the audacity to take to them
selves exclusively the appelIation of re-
pnblicans and We very readily con-
cede that they are genuine pieces coin
ed in the mint Of republican" Bona
parte.
1t is fact which cannot be contro-
verted, that the fedeFalists have, ever
since the adoption of the constitution,
been uniformly consistent in their prin-
ciples and practice : as they first erect
ed the edifce, SO they have continued
to support it. They have presented
their breasts as a barrier, as a dyke to
oppose the overwhelming inundation Of
jacobiniC fury, which threatened to
raze it to its foundation. The oldest of
them are the same gallant, and gener-
Gus vetrans, who in the time which
tried mems SOULS" rushed with ar.
dour to the field Of battle who led our
legions to victory and after securing
a glorious and permanent peace, retir-
ed covered with honorable wounds and
laurels, TO reap those rewards which
were the price of blood.-How have
they been requited for all their servic-
es Instead of receiving triumphal
crown, they have worn a crown of
thorns INSTEAD of filing those places
of honor and trust which We're so richly
their due, they have been thrust aside
to make way for foreign renegadoes-
wretches whose Presidential breath in
fects the unhappy CLINE in which they
are suffered to exist,-Republics, since
the first annals of history, have been
remarkable for their ingratitude to their
benefactors.-The Ostracism of A
thens was exclusively the fate Of its
most eminent and virtuous citizens
Carthage had the unparalleled ingrati-
tude, to Danish their great Hannibal
from his country, and force him 10 be-
come wretched wanderer in the Do
minions Of an Asiatic Prince-That
Hannibal who had raised the glory Of
commercial Carthage to height which
threatened to crush and annihilate i'm
perial Rome. The Athcnians suffered
the great Miltiades, who fought for
them the glorious battle Of Marathon,
10 die miserable death in prison.
Why need | mention more examples ?
history is replete with them. These
have been cited that WE might hold the
mirror up 10 ourselves. How many
examples are there at this moment in
our own republic, fresh in the memory
of every man! But this neglect has
not las in the ancient republics) been
produced by popular rage and Phrensy:
it has been effected by the base, insidi-
Gus arts Of demagogues, practising up
on our honest, unsuspecting yeoman-
ry.-The silly epithet of Tory, which
merits nothing but disdain and con-
tempt from men Of sense, has been, in
the hands Of unprincipled demagogues,
a charm as potent as the talisman of
magician or the elixir of Gree They
have administered such coPious doses
of this drug to the people, that their
senses are stepped in oblivion" But
the people, though by reason Of the
wells which demagogues have bound
over their eyes, they have been unable
to seeJ yet they now begin to FEEL.
And now they begin to feel, they will
fnUestgate--and after investigating,
blind indeed must they be, whose eyes
do not penetrate the inmost recesses of
the existing political mystery and ini-
guilty. More hereafer.l