Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1810-01-22

tie excuses Of an irrational, itpriacible1, b..
scri5iag, coafscatiHg. bliAderisg, feroc;.,,
bloody ard trannieaI democracy"
BURkE.
THESE selfstiled republicans are n.
persons who opposed the execution IF Ia.
Treaty, after it had received the sanctions
! Washington, and who loaded him with n.
bitterest revillngs and'vilest aspcr,ions N.
! cause he advocated it, and his p~1phefe
mind then foresaw the dificultle. vAtb
would accrue to his country from not hsv.
ing an established treaty and friendy IN.
| Outstanding with England Yet these yery
men now profess TO follow tie steps, and r..
we're the memory of him, who al Ills III
time, was opposed to their jacobinic pyo.
ceedings, and on which account met viii
their severest dcaunciauous. These are tLs
persons who were diamelricelly opposed "
all the measures of his successor, be they
what they would who excommunicated
him while President, for Ills standing Ar.
mics, his sedition end alien laws, and for
his enmity to France. But now they MI
ceive him into the bosom Of their ffatern;.
" in full communion, ana e1toi and practise
in far more desPotic manner, the very
measures which he adopted. We hope our
fellow citizens are now convinced how IN.
tile were the hopes of better times which
Il TO her, ba
Jefferson to the presidency. They must now
recollect, with what falacious expectations
they were gulled, what showers Of
prosperity they were promised BY bis fol.
lowers, for the mere purpose of obtaining
their suHrages.
They indeed sowed in the full hope of an
abundant harvest Of all these blessings, and
with full purpose of heart enlisted at once
under the banners Of delusion, and are now
left TO reap the bitter consequences Of their
misadvised rashness. Let any person who
has been induced to fall in with these sent.
ments, candidly ask himself whether he has
not been Observation-Disclosures the expecta-
tons of happy times, with which he was
promised, have been realized Your con-
sciences must decide in the negative.
You were to be favored with a redress of
those grievances which the satellites Of de-
mocracy then informed you had been impo-
sed upon you under the preceding admins
tration. You were to be liberated from the
- .FF I,re
armies, from expensive navies, from restraint
Of every kind, whether Of thought. word, u
action, which liberties were said to be-
greatly infyinged upon under The former
administrations. Every citizen should now
inquire, whether these predictions have
been verified, and whether their rights
have not been violated in the last and pres
ent administrations more than in those
which preceded them. Have they had no
taxes to pay these eight years past, and are
they likely not TO be encountered with any
tor the future The Embargo, that fool
ish, unconstitutional measure-we say foOl-
ish, because the designed effects have not
been adequate to the cause because the
ostensible purpose for which It was impo-
sed. viz. that Of coercing Great Britain, has
not been answered. As we observed, the
embargo had nearly swept of the property
Of great majority Of our citizens, and to
complete the devastation, we have the mel
anoholy prospect Of seeing our country re-
duced to beggary, an enormous tax raised
to support the government by reason Of the
treasury's being now entirely drained, in
manner best known to those who have the
direction of it.
Soon after the beginning Of Jeferson's
career, our national debt was said, by his
Partizans, to be continually diminishing, and
our treasury running over" Where are
we now All me the ground is gone on
which we stood ~ Ii this was really the
case, then we say the people have been de-
trauded and most egregiously imposed up
on; for even the small sum TO which taxes
were said to be reduced. are now found In
sufficient to meet the ordinary demands Of
government. GaIIatn Oh one hand, is cry
ing, NJ zVar-but a loan Of millions, OF al
immense direct tax while tie French de-
magogues, merely to CRAFTY their resent
ment TO England, are believing, "let loose
the dogs Ut war ,"-Have We been more o.
less encountered with standing armies The
two last, than during tire two former ad-
u'nistrat'ons The people doubtless rec
oilcct with what asrerity Of scandal, with
what infamous reproaches the administr.'
ticn Of Adams was assailed, because he d.
red to raise a small army from prudential