Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1810-03-19

cska, H.acosk and WaslisSton.
VIII your Roaor condescend to listen
for moment 20 some PLAIN questions from
fellow citizen in the private walks of life /,
bn, who feels deep n'erestin the concerns
ef our common country II is not, frankly
.eonf.ss. that consider you ereat man by
so,.,e or esincaiyE but by some strange &C
r,dent for which no one can account who rs
,,oacouainted with your forward, oven bear-
;,g d;sDesition And, for the sake Of my
rsllow .citizens, as well as you self, propose
III. Sc questions to you. in tins pa5ie mar
ner
Whilst you publickly protested Yourself q
federalist, some IT your intimate friends =
mong the democrats persuaded many Of
that party to vote for you as Senator, and de
cIared that you were really democratic in
vour potIcs Did you suthorise them to
make this declaration Were your profess
s;ons at war with your real sentiments Or
did YOU stoop 20 this low intrigue merely %
optaln votes, that YOU might enjo, mumen-
tarv triumph over Mr.. Hill
When urging people 10 vote FOR Mr. Couk
as "a member cf Congress, did you not &C
knowledge that you disliked the man, and
hsd no opinion either Of his talents or integ-
rity And how could YOU promote the e.
lection Of man 10 that important station of
whom you had, as you said SO contemplate
an opInion
When Ripleys resolutions were offered
approving of the Embargo &c. did YOU not
IN private express great dissatisfaction and
say, that the Embargo would distress this
part Of the country, without producing any
good effect and yet give your voice & vote
for the Resolutions in public And were
YOU not so Inconsistent as to write to some
friend at Washington Immediately after
giving this vote, stating it as your opinion,
that the Embargo ought TO be repealed, as
it was both an unpopular and distressing
measure
Did YOU not repeatedly declare Yourself
dissatisfied with the Embargo, both as a
weak and ruinous measure / Did you moi p7o-
pose to the citizens of Wiscasset TO JON in
petitioning for repeal OF the Embargo laws,
and yet merely from party influence and con.
silerations refuse att erwards to pursue the
plan of petition, though at the same time
fully sensible Of the evil and folly Of the
Embargo policy And have you not lately
spoken approbatory Of the Embargo Or al
iCdSt, w ySu hDA Su!pOfl dhu act WIN Hien
who were always strenuous advocates for
that impotent and oppressive measure
Have you not on several occasions, and
particularly in October 1893, declared, that
the French by violating the treaty they have
with this country, by burning and plumber
ing our vessels and by their arbitrary and
anti-neutral DEGREES, had forfeited ali claims
TO cur friendship And that the only way
Tor our government 20 retrieve its character
was by boldly resisting the insults and cut
RACES OF France
With ali your boastings of regard for the
SETTLERS, did you not, as one of lie Committee
a. The late session Of the General Court, do
al in your power to prevent the meeting and
report oftbe cOmmittee saying that enough
had been done for the settlers, AID proposing
to postpone the report To the neNl session !
These are PLAIN questions, which you will
probably wish to evade. But, Sin, your in
consistencies are beginning 10 be known
and the people cannot any longer be deiud.
ed by hiss insincere and hollow professions.
NATHAN.