Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1808-10-24
FOR THE GAZETTE.
10 certain Electioneering Doctor in
York District.

York District.
SIR,
HAD nature and education endowed
you with ability and integrity to entitIe YOU
to be the Congressional Candidate yousslc
your constitutional republicanism, your ex.
IRENE urbanity, your aifability in your fami-
ly and neighborhood, would be subjects Of
curious comment. But as these will ever
exclude you from any Office in the giE. oR
the people, shall consider your prtduo-
tons, with regard to the election of touf
friend, Mr.. Cuts A man, who, after ha,-
ing been often reproved and sometimes cor
rected, still continues bis scurrility az
falshoOd, must do it from an habitual an
tiPathy to honesty itself
The electioneering communications in tie
A'SHs for York District, though under diff
ferent names, point you out as the author
The devil can transform himself into an an
gel of light, but cannot conceal the eloven
foot Il is your misfortune, sir, to have all
the necessity with very little Of The a5Rity 70
deceive, which 50 eminently distinguishes
his internal majesty.
I shall notice few Of your prominent ex-
cellencies-You seem To irsinuate that the
people are irritatedat the opposition toyour
candidate and &C the hoarse grumhling Of
their resentment" as you elegantly express
It, ''will be heard from the white noun.
tains to the ocean !''-the whole Of saco
rivera magnificent figure II Il possible,
however, that you are mistaken i'll the cause
Of this "grumbling" may Be because
your friend is again urged upon the people
as a candidate, and that they are obliged
to vote for him or pay up their mortgages
and the journey up the river may be to ap-
pease those grumblings," and suspend
payment till after election.
You state that your candidate "had an
education at avery celebrated University,
and began to study law, &c" No body
disputes the celebrity of the College; and it
is admitted, you please, that this college
has conferred her honors on greater ounces
than yourself or your candidate-and it il
J4rfher admitted that you and your candidate
are not the first, who, after squeezing thro'
college, attempted profession, br esult
not make II 80. This may be one reason
why you in behalf of your friend, express
such antiPathy to certain professional gen.
uemen. The fox had his reasons for saying
:" sour grapes"-not that / would be under
stood to insinuate chat you or your candidate
possess any Of the properties Of than animal.
AS to yourself, resemblance to a certain
other animal might be urged without excit-
ing " the grumbHng of his resentment
Your candidate, you state, els mer.
chant (" Thank you, Doctor, for the infor-
nation The people never would have
known this but for yourself and the Argus
He i the farmers candidate" AS this
Is, believe, the first time he has been an
nounced as farmer Cuts" be good en-
ough, sir, toinform us where are his farms,
and at what season ofthe year he cultivates
them As you have stated this with as
much seriousness as If you expected to be
believed, you had better explain yourself.
DO You mean that this man i the ciHcina-
tas q IaaiaH Island, or that lie is YngiaidH
PsacteT. and that he cnltivates where he re-
SIDES ?
but you announce another new qualifca-
cation. " He is Connected by marriage with
the family Of Washington" II was grand
and noble, to state ina newspaper, that Mr..
Cuts wife's sister married nephew Of
Gen Washington Really, sir, your fdcll-
y to your candidate entities You to great
credit. You write ike a man who has