Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-06-26

| rs weak rs eaTneSI, &C. rope
President .fdams.-This gentleman,
1t appears, Is amusing his former rcvi-
lers and prosecutors, much to their
satisfaction, but little to his honor. A
new paper has recently been established
in Boston, under the auspices of the
royal family, apparently for the purpose
of assisting the Hon. John Q. in his en-
deavours to catch public popularity, and
BY that means grasp public employ
mcnt. With this iaUdable and hraise-
zvorthy motive in view, the old Presi-
dent has taken up the cudgels, and ac-
cordlEgly, twice a week apears before
the public in the Boston Patriot, abu-
sing his former supporters and friends,
and cringing in the most AFFECT and
disgraceful manner to the democratic
party. Who could have imagined that
this venerable old man, who had been
loaded with the yiles. and most oppro
brious epithets that democrats could in
vent, would ever SO far forget his own
dignity, asto become the champion OF
their Cause, and submit to the servile
drudgery of writing for democratic
print /! But what will not the lust
OF popularity effect, and the desire of
revenge inspire! The unwelcome
truth stares Us in The face, and We are
compelled to acknowledge the muta.
bility Of all sublunary things, in the to.
tai subyersion Of faculties, once highly
eminent and useful. Blu, had Mr..
Adams been satisfied with me rely sup
porting his new friends, and not have
entered the mansions Of the dead, to
wreak his vengeance on the dust of
one whose memory is deservedly dear
to the heart of every patriotic !Ameri.
can, he would have been suffered to
pass away as the idle wind and the
weakness Ut declining years would have
received the pity of his former friends
The garrulous efusioRs Of narrative
old age whose ruling passions are gen.
orally more ardent as the fountain OF
life becomes exhausted, would not have
attracted the notice OF any but those in
whose service he ha. volunteered the
remnan, of his days, had he not assailed,
in the most indecent and unbecomine
manner, the motives and views of men
! with whom he once acted, and who are
now numbered with the dead. Ham.
ilton, Ames and others, whose services
will be remembered with gratitude
: while memory holds her seat in this
distracted globe, are held up by Mr.
. Adams, in the iullncss OF his zeal ior
the cause in which he has embarked SO
late i'll lie, as tit objects on which TO cast
the odlum Of his unpopular measures
General Hamilton III pa, ticular, whom
Mr.. y. conceiyes to have done him an
injury some eight or nine years ago
. comes in for al extensive share Of The
vengeance OF this iraseille old man.
This injury, however, he thought i
wis - ,rook at the timc-and accog.
ding Suffered it 10 go unredtessed, un.
Ill the object Of his resentment, was con,
signed 10 the narrow tomb then il
was, that he ventul cd forth in the plen
. titude oil his hatriotisnl, to assail the de
parted hero He has torn open the
i tomb, * exposed the sacred Dust to tn,
SCOTS and tauntings of his most inyeter
ate foes. He has magnansmousiy com
Inenced an attack on the dead, and " tina
vanity which keeps every man impor.
tant," leads him to imagine that b,
triumphs, while, in fact, he is receiving
the scorn and contempt of the yirtuous
Ii MIR. Adams political wounds were
OF a nature to cause such deep NORTH.
cation, why were they suffered to tester
and corode, until death had arrested the
object of his animosity? Why did he
not come forward at the time, and en-
deayour to make his defence, in the
face of his country For, in the face Of
his country, be il remembered, was the
Generals accusation preferred. His