Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1810-03-26

- re-, out Of the people 100000 do
r,,-e. we concluded we would no more
e. rnen who leenled 10 think the Reopie
iupr a only made 20 give them office. and then
.:ss money for them 20 ipend. shortly at
cl,rk. who was good friend to he peo-
~ - !. he himielf told me af laring, run OF
f..h al 600 dollars, aud this convinced me
-, ,be reft of them who talked jnit as imooIh
:. he did, would a'fo aa like him if they
roud get as good chance.
Town meeting is now pretty near and we
h.ve cor 10 90 and vote for Governor again !;
"a ,he democrats are eleeioneering now
der than ever And il is ony Two or
.hree DAYS iince C---ts' pol matter was ar
- houfe 70 tell me what ] mutt do. Hefaid
.hsrr had been a caucus at Bernard's, where
-,,s Thatcher, aud Keyzer, and Moody, and
GRANGER, and Green, and Pike, and Storer,
nd Hatch, and Keller, and Kettel. and Lane,
nd Liafcott, and forty other office holders
and office hunters, and they had all agreed 20
nufh 40 Gerry aud Gray ali they could and
bought the Kennebunk paper FOR Thatcher
aod Storer to write in. And he told me in
confidence flor did not Ter him know was
NOT as good democrat as ever how the
County Committee had written to the Town
Cou,rnittees, and how the Town Committees
had divided all the towns into little lquads.
and that they fhould carry Woodman
and Rice all hollow. He then gave me a
dozen pamphlets called the Crifi to deal OUT
10 the folks round about, which he told me
would make them all vote right and he faid
he had fifty Of them TO fcatter ABOUT in our
town and that Col. Mac. Squire Kettei,
and Noah Weeks, and Parton Hobbs, and
Friend Iofiah, had been down and got theirs.
After drinking good tiff fling ne babe me
good by and charged me to turn out ltrsng,
and make as many voters that were not on the
lill as could, if they would vote for Gerry.
When he was gone | read his Cribs, and
fer the life of me, till I came TO the lat
page, could not tell what u had TO do with
our Election. | did not fee word in il
about an elabliihed religion about taxing
the quakers about the Judges lalaries; !.
bout the election law, andabouf turning out
Keeer and the other FELTON, folks. Initead of
this it was full Of Idols OF Federaliim; Bri,ifh
Piracy; Orders in Council and Mr.. Refe,
Canning, Erikine, and Jackfon, and fome-
thing Of the carrying trade. But on thelaft
page there were rhe names of Gerry and
Gray in big letters and direction 10 us
to vote for them. There was one TORY here
that | never heard of before, how Gerry
lent his aid to make our Contribution For
my part / recollecf that Gerry was one of
the three members of the Convention that
sgsfsd 90 Egn t-and that he came home got
into the Mafachuietts Convention on pu, 6os
t. spPs< d-and that was the reafon why
never would vote for him when he was fet
up agaiaa Governor Strong. And yet now
we are told that he was great friend 70 il.
When | Zee fuch ftories circulated among
the people, by folks who hold offices and
are afraid of lo6ng them, | think in very
deed that the el00en yfoof does peep our in
good earnef. For one then, am determine
ed to do all | can TO keep in
CHRISTOPHER GORE,
as GOYERNoR-AND
DAVID COBB,
rs LIEUTENANT CoYERNoR;
and to vote for
JOSEPH LELAND,
SAMUEL A. BRADLEY,
rs SENATOR'S,
Becasle believe them to be the real friend.
of the people
So no more at prefent from yours to ferve,
ICHABOD SMYTH.
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