Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-10-31

! the beit How have our foreign concerns been
treated? How has the property ia the coun-
try become equaEzed rs not the embargo
heaping it up y How have falsries been low
cred Have they NOT been RATED Pr thele
men had performed their promifes, ihey woald
have deierved our praiie, snd would be wor-
thy of remaining in office bur fhal we now
continue them longer, after conducting. as we
all know they have, moi deceitfully! It's
yours, We freemen, TO decide.
ak you now, reader, to can your eyes full
~ around you look at every quarter, and at
every thing, and then be kind enough to an
liver me ingenuou1y Has any one thirg
been made better under Mr.. Jzfsstoa'' admin
iftration : When you hall have examined this
queition long enough, ard ihall have anfwet-
&c yourielf TO your own iatisfaction, entreat
/ you to hear me again with candor--Have not
our national affairs generally been growing
worfe Has not our country, as a nation a
mong the ifates of the world, been going down
| hill, ever Gnce MIR. Jefferfon and his party
came into Office T? Anfwer me 6ncerely, rea-
der. Don't charge WIEek with all OR unh2p-
plnels; lis Encouragement, fomewhere. I
charge you TO be cautious how you decide in
this thing lis the caufe of your country you
are now fitting upon not the caufe Of party.
would again inquire of you, 6rfly beg
ging you to bear in mind the opinions of WaJG-
isgtan, above quoted do you think the times
are TO peculiar among the nations of tie earth,
or do you deem thar there have fuch contrary
winds arilen, that the ben of rulers could NOT
have done better at helm, than MIR Jefferlon
and his council have done If you fhould
happen TO believe they have ss7ssHy done the
belt that could have been done, laying nothing
about their motives; ak, have you any
proofs, grounds, or circumstances of any kind,
tofspport fuch belief! On the contrary,
IS NOT every proof, every circumffaHce, every
appearance, againft fuch belief And san
you explain. or fhow to any body, why you
do 10 believer Republicans fhouGd always have
PFfHsiples 0aa spiniOES Of fbea ezDz fhould think
for themfeIves for the moment the people 20
about The community, pinning their fzith up
on their Reighbors' 1eeveS. thar moment the
republic is tapped that moment the tree of
, Liberty begins 20 wifher, aud eventqzllY nun
fall. Fear not of leaving your party. When
your country IS IN dang ger, is in tottering at
urude, conhder that you hould enliff in no
cauie but that which leads 10 the relief and
iafety of your nation Happy will you be,
two or three yearshence, TO find yourfeIves to
have been 70 early emitted ID fupport of the
caute and IntereR Of England. Be not
baihful in leaving the ranks of party. A re-
al patriot can never be aihamed OF doing his
country iervice
he eauie Of our country, Of our conffitu-
ton, and particularly of the New Eogland
states, which ltruggled manfully for the adop-
zion OF that contribution, is be e0yis Of FEDE
RALIsE A Jedt'at@, IS properly and bona ftty,
one who fupports the contribution and union
OF theie United States. A great majority of
the citizens of New Eugband are federalifts
A1esBa4bgjeH,, is all federal, in its own govern
ment, except the Governor and 1t Governor
Nerr- HamajShe has lately cholen reprefenta-
tlves TO Congress, by general ticket, and the
federali(ls had a majority of all the votes, of
5000. Te'1'0Ht IS federal every way, except
one representative OUT of four, TO Congress.
COnaet7icEt is nov, and ever was, completely
| cd al G,lt coI@
the Governor, who is neutral. Therefore il
is speaking within bounds, to fay thar three
| fifths Of New England is federal. Thanks, and
abundant gratitude TO Heaven, that from the
dark and direful night that has almoR over
whelmed us, the Sun Of Ftdsyoiyfu looks out
looks out, and s5zlke5 -
New England has taken the nand Of rs !;
and fhe will asrv, as fhe did then, rife victori-
Gus from her chains From what chains you
may ak From the chains that have been fig
ed upon her conititusional privileges, And
how vii! fhe rife I! you may again inquire.
BY conffitutionally turning out of office, thofe
| who have abufed their trun, and abufed their
! power.
This federal majority of New England, is
engaged in fupport Of the contribution; in
| fuppoct of real republican meaiures in fun
port of the interef o. New England-in fup
port of Commerce. And ihall we, in this fec
ton of n. England, be the Ian to eFpoufe her
| caufe Or otherwife, fllall we, becaufe there
are a few in thoie New England states, who
have hopes Of receiving fome of the loases and
ffhes of office, while the fouthern or foreign
1ntereit prevails who are now IL the face of
alarge majority of the people of New England
openly oPpoGng their interelts, their greatefi
rights, and their very political ialvation who
know that ~ EngIands beii farm Is on the a.