Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-10-10
FOR THE GAZETTE.
To BE Els67sr5 sfLiuesLr Die,ia.

10 De E9eS75r5 sf Liaeska Digyi9.
ON the FIST Monday Of November next,
you will be called upon 70 give your fufra-
ges FOR representative to the next Congress.
If you prefer Peace, Commerce, aud Free
Trade, TO War, Embargo Laws-if you pre-
fer PROPERTY, your owa happiness, and that
of your poIterity to debt and poverty, you
cannot hefitate moment in supporting the
caufe of federalism to that of democracy.
You reco'ea your fourilhing ftuation du-
ring the administrations of Warrington and
Adams, and you now fen6bly feel the fuffer.
ings and embarrahment. you are fubie6ted to
under the meafures of Mr.. Jeff-rfon's admin
itration. When federal men were placed in
office, you enjoyed the profits of the coating
trade, and of an extenGve commerce. The
abundant products of your foil and induRry
found ready market. You witnefIed an hon.
orable and profitable adjuament of differen-
ces with foreign nations. II 1hort, may it not
be aferted without ex4ggeration, that no peo-
pie ever enjoyed higher degree of political
Happiness and PROPERTY than you did at the
period alluded TO ! In this zenith Of your
glory, the administration of your government
was committed into the hands of democrats.
Have you been gamers by the change No.
From that moment your affairs, TO ufe COM
mon phraie, have been going down hill Your
htuaiion has been, daily, growing worfe and
worfe. You have been often told of the fatal
effects which the meafures of democracy
would eventually produce, yet, like the TOO
needles mariner, you made little or no exer-
ton to ward off the deftru6tion of the ap.
preaching form. You have been charmed
with the iyren fongs of your political dream
ers, who have proclaimed peace, peace"
when there was no peace. You have been
told the leaders of the democratic party were
your ilncere, your warmeil friends. But you
viii recolleGt, that experience is the beil teit
of all political meafures, and il will always be
the cafe, that good meafures win promote
your PROPERTY, anu that whenever you ex-
perience adver6ty and trouble, it is in conie-
quencs Of folly or wickednefs in your rulers
You poileis a country capable of ahording you
all the comforts and conveniences of life, when
you are allowed the ufe of thofe privileges
which nature and your contribution offer you.
Are you now in the enjoyment Of thefe
Are you permitted to Gend your produce TO
market, and is the commercial interell Of your
ddtria fecured to you Has the party which
your prefent member to Congrefs is attached
10 done you julice IL in confequence Of
miiinanagement IN your public affairs, you
iufler evils and entertainments, it is in vain
10 complain, You know your petitions for
relief are difregared, and your lituation re-
mains hopeless. Is your ftuation defperate J
No A fure and conftituriona remedy is in
I your power. On the fri Monday III Novem-
Der, let every federaif, every American, be at
his poi, and give his vote for
ALDEN BRADFORD, Efq.
I the friend of the merchants, a man acquainted
I with your fuferings, and who will be an able
advocate for your relief, an enemy to the
embargo, friend TO peace, commerce, and
free trade. A FARMER.