Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1810-05-21

AZ "Ho ~oUfehes 20 you the!e letters, has
been honoured with 10 uncomfortable portion
Of your attention upon former occaiions. He
has made the fubject Of poli;cs, a. an Fnglin,
writer iays ofpoetry, tsO ,gusb the buGoefs Ct
DIS life. Too mucL for his own hSppincfs "a
well az iuterea. He has been fatirized ~ his
late democratic friends, because il was his
fortune, or rather perhaps hi, misfortune TO
riie, Ia the courfe Of few years, from one OF
The very lowelt ii;uations il rural life to
! feat ~ the council, of his courtry; acircurn
farce which be vii not affect 70 remember
J without peafure. and which eiainly he does
remember with no little republican pride
Pardon this egotfm, 1t viii be confred TO
RE drf letter, and 10 the neceiIacy purpofes
Of explanation.
Bat Tie writer has changed his political par
~ Hence all this fatire and much koiNer-
Gus Glamour. Some nation has prover5, 10
timaIing that the wise man changes his orin-
ION often, The fool never II will he admitted,
however, tha; frequent tranGtions 10 politics,
from one party TO another, ought 20 render a.
ny individual fnfpected. r orc change were
not to be allowed, the democratic ranks,in
| one part Of the Union, would be vary thin
But mar, IN public life, ought to change
his party, Without giving to his condiments
and the public the reasons which have govern
ed his conduct. A mere NJ veio choofe to
change llouid never be accepted in fuch
cafe
OfthF naturalization OF the government Of
his couatry, The writer, while he scted AZ enc
Of the Representatives of ihe people. did not
folic' either for hirnfef or any other perfon,
directly or indirectly, favour Of any confs-
| quence whatever. The appointment; of
young gentleman as midG,iplnan in the ma
Wy was ;ae only thing that he requeled alone
Anc IN that he was sraiiGed The appoint
NEST Of now aud then deputy poflnsae-, in
ioIne FINAL country village, canno, be couId-
cred as the act ofthe executive administration
Probably no o,hcr democratic representative
ever asked 70 little from the Prefident, for
from him nothing was asked The writer
was di!apFointed by the administration hu,
he was dilsppointed in his capacity as a repre-
tentative of the people, and on their behalf.
He was disappointed in finding tina, HI. poll
tieai friends who filed the different depart
ments Of the government were not, q, he had
believed them to be, real republicans, and
that they were not firm and independent pat
riots.
When confcierce demanded complete
traniiticn from one of the great political par
ties which divide the country to the ether
there was but one way for the writer to act,
confidently with his own principles, or rather,
perhaps, in this refpect, nosisns, fnruiar e.
nough to be fure, but fuch as could not bur
govern him. Il was to give the best evidence
the nature OF the cafe would admit that no
iStereHed or ambitious views, or anv impure
motives, produced the change, BY abandoning
rhe high and honorable i,uatiou 10 which he
had been three times caNed by great and rap
| IDLY lncreaiing ma jorities Ct thofe who knew
! hin beif, and 10 which he kre,v he could a.
gam ee called He declared, CT ,his location,
thar Ne wcnd never again be candidate al
any popular election whatever and this
/ Pronaie he means = keep. He doas not be.
ieve that any individual, in a republican
| government, is under any obIirati0nto devote
more than 2 reafonahe portion az hi. life "a
he public lervice. He haq a risht to nudge
for h.siie!f when il is pruien, and proper 10
retire, uneis, indeed, 70 general difiaclina.
ton to the Iabours Of public life lhould per-
wade the country, as TO cccalion the wheels Of
the machine Of government, to Cop n the
cafes Of inviiaon and rebellion It il very diff
ferent. Even the life of every one is thea the
property Of his country. In the prcicns cafe.
the writers perpetual retireaent is more the
reiSlt Of choice snd tate than of difappoint-
n,ent and difgun
II was in iae A." memorable and mournfu"
! FELTON, CT lsC5--6, when both Houfes Of Con-
| grefs were liut up in darkness for feverai
fuccefivs weeks, thar certain individuals of
The democratic party became convinced that
their leaders were not only deiposs in their
hears, bur were devoted TO the fear il not 10
the interefis of France. In the courfe ofthat
| felton,. Mr.. JosEFK CLAY, the representative
of Philadelphia, made ia.emn public deciara-
tion, that France had threa' cned War again1
the United States. and acknowledged that the
threat had not been without its influence up
I Ill. a
saFefed TO proceed. Mr.. Ciay,it IS believed,