Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1808-07-18

! neglected. dnd OepTSncd, as EEoiS
impoGTion upon the Understandings
Of the people, and an in6dious effort
to detach from each other, different
claGes Of the community, who are u
nited BY the ftrongeh ties Of reciPro-
cal interea aud ,advantage.
9Th. ReGfueR, That the alarming
experiment now in operation, has al
ready furnifhed to the advocates of a
fallacious theory demonftrative and
melancholly proof, that the annihiIa-
ton Of commerce, is certain and ia
oVIrapie deitEucsi5n 70 the agriCultu-
raj portion Of the people.
9th. Rsl5ived, That the recent
acts Of the National Government, in
in,erdiGipg to commercial people
the free uie Of the ocean, without IL
IMITATION of time; prohibiting all in
tercourfe BY land with the inhabi-
tants of provinces on our borders,
who have hitherto been accuitomed
TO traffic with us highly profitable
to our citizens and alto reltraining
commercial intercourse between the
different states, by novel and op-
prcilive regulations even if they
are mealures warranted by the Con-
ltitution, ere vel to be conidered as
Of the laft neeefiry, and only to be
reforted to 10 luch cri6s OF our ma
tionai affairs, as will admit Of no 9TH
CT exdsdient or relief.
1th. ReEhuea, That from any dif-
clofures that have been made by the
Government. the preient crids does
not, in our opinion, ianctiou an ex-
pedient Of fuch dinrelIing tendency /;
and that if it has been adopted from
any caufe which is concealed, this
concealment evinces either want Of
confidence highly reProachfull to the
people or oonfcioufnefs Of error
highly difgracefal TO the adniniltra-
ton.
sth. ReElregF, That If th7 perpl7z-
tiles in our foreign relations have left
to the governmeDt no other alterna-
tive than 20 preferve cur "egsatiai
rej5;Tce5," by the total lufpenhon Of
our commerce we vet conGder
theie pe1p,exirics as rciuIting in a
great degree. from the former feeble
and inPotent policy Of our Rulers
or from an uniuaidable prediction
for one of the belIigerant Powers,
and an equally unjultiGable hatred
Of the other "a prediction and
hatred altogether incompatible with
our natural petition, and highly re-
pngnant to the character of an indie
pendent nation.
9th RTkeA That from the pre-
cipuaney from which the Embargo
Laws were enacted from the tenn
per uanifeAed BY a majority Of Con-
grtfs on thar collaboration the
pointed tendency Of fome of the fup-
elementary acts and from the par
rial operation Of all, as well as from
eyent' which have recently tranfpir-
Ell, we have itrong reaion TO believe
that they were intended as virtual
ard fervile compliance with the i'm
perious requiGtions Of the French
Government lufpending all com
nercial intercourfe with Great Brit
ain and her colonies, under pretence
q eqaally projecting " orr rej5wces"
from the depredalions Of the differ
ent beliigerent powers.
roth. Rei6fvea, That the adminif
trat;on Of the National Government
having thus forfeited yjulf claim
20 our confdente, we feel ourfelves
pledged TO each other to ufe every
fair and honorable exertion, in
manner comfortable to the COniti-
turion, to produce a change OF men,
as the only means OF producing "a
deal change of meafures and
thereby redoring our country to the
rank and dignity among nations,
from which fhehas 70 rapidly descen-
ded.
nth. Rsslved, That TO accom-
plilh this Purpofe, it is, in our oPln-
ION Of the highe& importance chat
Mafachufetts, the hrt to fhed the
blood of her citizens ia fupport OF
our independence, and the lait to
tarnifh her glory by revolving from
( her ancient faith, fhould more eftec-
tually recover the exalted character