Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1809-04-03

poiilenelS) et.quette, ana HaDit Wouiu
induce him to anfwer them. The
mere correspondence they knew
would tell fomething but their
chief hope was that good uie might
be made, at proper time, OF mutlla-
ted parts of the aniweis, and per-
haps the efcape of haity or unguar-
ded expreilion. Though the impu-
dence of this attemp; was without
parallel in the annals of Machiavel-
i'm, yet as the cafe was desperate,
the attempt mutt be made III did
not deter theie democratic dema-
gogues, that they and the world we'll
knew, that only four or FIVE ihort
years fnce, they themfelves, and
their hirelings, had branded this
fame JOHN ADAMS-this ne7v
correfpondent-with every inve6tive
which the photography Of hatred,
malice and billingsgate could fur
Min that he was BY them unbluih-
ingly proclaimed :" a hoary headed
traitor ;"-an upaart tyrant, the fon
OF fhoemaker, who wilhed to Lord
it over the American inheritage
whole aim "tstis vyibus" was to
introduce Monarchy, Arifocracy
and Slavery into the United States
and for this purpofe was the father
of the Sedition and Alien Laws the
introducer of Standing Army, Ex-
cife and Land Taxes, and of Eight
Per Cent Loans that he, JOHN
ADAMS, had fold himfelf to Great
Britain ;-that he had defended, in
book written for the purpofe, a
Government of Kings, Lords, and
Commons and that he was the
venal tool of the Britilh Miniltry.
Nay more, thefe demagogues knew,
that there was no epithet too degra-
ding which they had not applied to
, this fame Mr.. JOHN ADAMS and
that of the nick.rames they had be-
flowed on him, that Of the French
War-Ha4uk," "Dnke If Brantree,"
and {" fkulking, crazy John" was not
the mott opprobrious. A record of
thefe fcurrilities, and many others,
will be found in the files Of the de-
mocratic papers.
The new correspondence between
Mr.. ADAMS and thefe den,agogues,
was at frit only heard of in rumoTs,
and privately ihewn to confidential
perlons. Not one CT the cid friends
of the Ex- PRECEDENT, who had fup-
ported him through thick and thin.
were allowed to take peep at them.
1t was though, not quite up to the
mark for general publication, and
was, perhaps, too arongly tinaured
with old fafhioned political morality.
Still the name of JOHN ADAMS
and The EMBARGO were yoked to-
gether and capitalized in many
caucus refolutiom But the APPROACH
ing election called for iomething TO
cheer up the dropping ipirits OF de-
mocracy and two of the Hap,ptbDe
county Managers were fclet2ed to
write to Mr.. ADAMS, and rcqueit an
anfwer. The anfwer was prompt
but only eafraSts from il have been
permitted to meet the public eye -
But thefe extracts are u.hered to the
world as prodigy, an eighth wonder
of the world, in all the triumph of
bothered deipair. The extracts fol-
low. Let them be read with atten-
ton. Let it be coniidered to whom
The anlwer was given, and for what
purpoie and if the reader fhouid
find at the clofe, that the |" latoting
mountain has brought forth but a lit
tie moufe )" let him net feel too
much disappointed ; but conilder, as
the times are, that little eleetioneer-
ing matter nun be made TO 60 a
great way.
3 2 TIE EXTRACTS 2 3
Q4ny, Mp6 Is, 1909.
GENTLEMEN,