Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1810-03-12

greed on all hands that the Senator
has got the money and the u. States
haveeloit it.
All this | may be told, amounts to
but little. l faid, knew but little
about the bu6ncfs. But undoubted-
ly it is throughout the government
like the fmall part which we know !:
IF 70, in 8 years fuch fums will very
eaiily amount to 81 million dollars
over and above the regular wages,
which are from 6 dollars day up to
$4,000 dollars year.
On the intereh and principal of
the public debt payments have been
made to tine amount of above 90
million dollars. Public lands have
been fold to the amount of above g.
million. Add to the laft fun the
million dollars deficiency in the trea-
fury, and one will about balance the
other without con6derably affec-
ting the 81 million.
AS to the common flanders of Of
fec hunters, lay them aide +; | de-
fpifc them, and 70 does every honeff
man. AS to mems opinions, they are
all free alike, have no buflnels with
them. But matter of plain fact will
be unpleafant to none but party men.
| have mentioned facts as they come
to us in official forms, and from pub
lie records. They are few and finn
pie, but they exprefs great deal.
They fpeak in language loud and
unfwerable.
! Embargo and non-intercolgjs have
done no good to US and little harm
TO other nations. They have cut off
the labor and fupport of our own
citizens at froke, and driven orr
buGnefs and our profits to Canada
and the eaftern fhorc Of the Schoo-
die. Among ourfelves, few mer-
chants of party politics, who were at
the bottom Of thefe meaiures and
have been forcing the Embargo on
others with all their might, but have
/omeb9zv kept their own vefels lately
running at immenfe gain, have made
pretences have fattened on the mil-
cries of the people.
Any clafs or combination Of men,
whole Object is to eftablifh name
and an influence to obtain the Offices
and emoluments of government, are
a party. The thing is tyranny no
matter what the name is. /, is mark
ing out one orderof men as honorable
and noble, and another as mean and
difgraced. 1t is treachery TO our con-
| ftitution. 1t is death to liberty.
1 This truth needs no proof. 1t can
not be proved Iii palmer than all
proof. 1t is felf-evident. They who
for party purpofes with to make one
half the people believe that the cd
er half are plotting to deffrey our
freedom, have no honesr ends in view
and ought to be watched. The dar-
gers to free government arife foom
a few felfiih, artful, plauGble, ambi-
tious men. The quefion is who
thefe men are. We have nothing to
fear from honeff citizens who have
been deceived, if we once find out
their deceivers.
One principal realon why Pr
6dent Jefferion, Lieutenant Cover
nor Lincoln, and others like them,
were RATED TO their high itations,
was that Offices might be conferred
more emphatically than had been be-
fore done. When elected they ex-
prefaly adopted the Practice Of pro-
noting to authority and ialaries none
but their own party. Party has had
full range. What is he conl--
quence Government has b-en a
continual fcramble fer office and mo-
ney. The yearly income OF II nil
lion and half Of dollars is ipent, and
Ia million besides and thc nation
al chef is empty. Public officers
have become pubic fwindlers, in The
way | have mentioned way more
vile than that Of the common thief.
A Vice .Prefident of the u. States,
who was extoIled 20 the skies as a
republican, has been indicted for
horrrd murder in duel, and tri d
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