Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1810-05-14

FOR THE GAZETTE.
DE SENECTUTE.-No. VI.

6dlrsssed to ths Editors Of the Boston Payfa,.
PERMIT me, gentlemen, to close nv
aesultory observations ON the prolix wri-
tings of JoHN ADAMS. by addressing you,
their primary promulg ators.
The uncommon heat of party animosities,
has occasioned many Of our citizens to
blindly adhere TO any thing favoricg their
own party, and contemptibly reject any pro-
duction Of the opposite. When ADAMS
was in full posse sslon of his powers of IN
tellect, and reasoning eloquence flowed
from his pen, democracy spurned him from
her councils, and spake scornfully of him
III her caucuses. But when old age had
brought him 10 the verge of the tomb, and
fatterv had forced An undigesteG mass Of
composition from has pen, you gave Curren-
cy 10 hl, dotage, and said zn1sn to his coun-
sells. The Other newspapers of your party
, followed your footsteps, ana gave currency
10 multiplicity of letters signed I" Tohn
daanas," and directed to you. This you
doubtless hoped might assist you IN estab-
fishing those principles Of Galicism you had
undertaken 10 support. Your party intend
ed 10 captlvate the uniformed, BY praising
the wonderful writings Of the ex-president
adams. But wonderful TO relate, 40 soon
er had his letters OF this day been compared
with those ef former timez, and The wri-
iings of General Washington, than every
CIR Saw the contrast they found that " the
gold lad become dim, and The most fine
fgold changed" 'fhe delusion vanished, g.
the praise Of Adams correspondence van
>hed into thin air" the endeavcrs Of The
Essex Register TO the contrary notwiths,an
ing.
One principle advocated bv YOUR cores
pOntcnt, was, that Hamilton was nscnay-
ci!ist This, the democrats had long init
meted and they doubtless hoped that the
people would believe il, If Adams would
sanction the insinuation by giving it his sig
nature He did it-but so connected with
other circumstances, and so contrary to the
solemn declarations of w ssliington and 9TH
er official writings, that credulity itself
mast be stretched 10 believe H. That Ham
ilton was not Monarchist, is evident from
the circumstance of his names being sub
scribed 10 the Federal Constitution. You
would do well to reflect little Oh This, and
before you again publish Hamilton mon
archist, tell us what Elbridge Gerry SAID in
favor Of the u States Constitution. The
same NAV be observed of Pickering, Ames,
Cabot, and Gore-the firm friends OF
Washington, America, Liberty, ard Com
nlerce but hated BY Bonaparte, jefferson,
Madison, Gerry-and spoken i'll OF by John
Adams, John O Adams, and all who advo-
cate an unnecessary war with England, and
alliance with Bonaparte, whom the Aurora
has ia an acTostic proclaimed our king
Another principle advocated by joan Ad-
ans to which you gave currency, was to
cIothe the President with more power. We
are told by vog. correspondent, that the 4
des of contracting the authority % the Pres
ident was i'll founded that more danger
was to be apprehended from the corrupt
principles or the House the undue inhu-
ence ofihe Senate, than from the arbitrary
condact of he President. What is this, eut
paving the wa, To monarchy? Wherein :
the danger OF entrusrng all tire power WIFE
cpc mai, and r.Ii Ltm PiesidcNi, create.