Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1809-10-16
MODERN DFMACOGUES:
or,
The !" great men" Of D.moeraey.
FROM SALM sGUNDI.
Cone!sdsi from on, LII.

hha'' Vi VSiy Ptp'iiiiifg taicHtS-lcr
h wrote fair hand, aad had thrice
won the ilver medal at country
academy-hc was ALTO an orator,
for he talked with empha'ick voiu-
bili.y, ard could argue fnlI hour.
withou, taking either lide, or advan-
cling Jingle opinion-hc had fill
farther republics for eloquence for
he made very handfome geifures,
had dimples in his cheeks when he
fmilcd, and enulciated moF harmo-
niouay through his nofe. In lhor,,
nature had certainly marked him out
for great man ; for though he was
not tall, YET he added ar leait half
an inch 10 his ltature by elevating
his head, and a1umed an amazing
expreiIion of dignity by turning up
his nofe and curling his nofrils, in a
ftyle of confcious luperiority. Con-
vinced by thefe unequivocal appear
ances, DAbble's friends in full caucus,
one and all, declared that he was un-
deubtedly born TO be great man,
and it would be his own fault If he
were not one. Dab5le was tickled
with an opinion which conceded 70
happily with his own--for vanity,
in a confidential whiipcr, hai given
him the like intimation-and he re-
verenced the judgment of his friends.
becaufc they thought 70 highly Of
himfeIf-accordingly he fat out with
determination to become a great
man, and to tart in the fcrub- race
for honour and renown. How to
attain the defired prizes was howev-
er the suction. He knew by kind
of inltinctiye feeling, which feems
peculiar to grovclling minds, that
honour, and its better part--pro6t,
would never feek him out (; that they
would never knock at his door and
crave admittancc, bat mutt be cour-
ted, and toiled after, and earned. He
therefore ftrutted forth into the
highways, the market places, and the
affemblies of the peoplc-rantcd like
true cockerel orator about virtue,
and patriotifm, and liberty, and G.
quality, and bimJfy. Full many a
political wind mill did he battle with !;
and full many time did he talk him
felf OUT of breath and his hearers ont
Of their patience. But Dabble found
TO his valt aItonilhment, that there
was not notorious political pinp
at ward meeting but could out
talk him and what was it'll! more
Notifying, there was NOT notorious
political pinp, bat was more noticed
& careiIsd than himfelf. i'he realon
was fimple enough. while he harran-
gued about princistes, the Others rant
ed about msn: where he repro5arcd a
political error, they hlaAcd apalisi
Cal character they were. coaie-
quently, the mott nkfui for che
great objeet of our political disputes
is, not who fhall have the h5nsar Of
cmancipatiHg the community iron
the leading-ftrings of dslulion, but
who thall have the pysft of holding
the ltrings, and leading the commu-
nifty by the no(c.
Dabble vas likcwiie very loud in his
projections of integrity, incorrup-
fibii,y, and diinteretcdneis, words
which, from being filtered and ref
ned through newspapers and election
handbills, have lott their original
Ggni6cation, and in the political die
tionary, are anonymous with empty
pockets, itching palms, and in'crei.ed
ambition. He, in addition to all
this, declared that he would fupport
none bur honsit men but unluekily
as but few of thefc offered themielves
to be Imported, Dsbble's fervices
were feldom required. He pledged
hi,n!elf never to engage in party
fchcmcs or party politlrks, but to
aand ur foley for the broad inte-
reLs Of his country-fo lie food a.
. Lone, and what is the fame thing, he
its,d iill; for, in this country, he
who does not fidc with either party,
is Ike BODY in a vaeum between
t,gc planets, and mutt for ever re-
man n.otionlels.