Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1810-06-11

liauftrions ohrlanthrupiis-on the dnrabie
Iannals Of the great, the good, the Cod- tke
IbenefacorS Of man To the tIvIl 1ed
Il world, the anfwer is a fnbject Of the deep
\ eft regret aud grief. -lu0rdlaat2 ambition
and power, allies ol-the land, aiiieS on the
ocean, are as iniatiable and nnmercitul As
the relentlels grave. Unparalleled wealth,
| agriculture, manufactures and commerce,
| but fiirnilh endlefs magazines Of fuel TO
feed the unquenchabie flame Of ambition !;
and power, lawlefs and boundleis power,
is on both lideS implicitly obSdient 70 her
| fovereign will. Obligations OF every kind,
political moral aud religious, ariiing from
the rights of neutrals, from the mott iIlemn
treaties, from public law in general, aud
from humlnity itirf, are neglected, can
celed and treated with inerfable Contempt,
every beam OF hope that national juitice
would rctume her elevated Ration, has been
ephemeral-gittering in the morn, /; has
been dim at noon, and extinct IN the eve.
France has charged Great Britain with
the ettabhlhment Of deipotic CONNER
cial monopoly and has viewed her own
conduct, as the meTitorious effort of
magnanimous volunteer in a common
cauie, to defeat the me2iure. Yhe King
of Great Britain in return has charged
France with the fabrication of this as
pretext to cover her deep deligns of uni
verfal domination. NeighbOring nations,
by their vibrating conduct towards theie
mighty beiigerents, have declared that
both are in the right and both in the wrong
and the United States ever careful to
offend neither, have, with uniform folicit-
ude, cultivated the friendfhip of each
May their laudabie eEdeayors be crowned
with merited fuccrfs
France, previouily to her revolutionary
war, for a ferries of years, trembled at the
rod of mighty Britain. That unparalleled
event has reverted the fcene, and France
threatens the overthrow of her great enc
my. The Emperor Napoleon has in fub-
fance, if not iii form, declared it. Napo-
leon, that great arbiter of the Eait, is a
mott formidable foe f: His equal is not to
be found in the annals of man. Other
monarchs have been filled great but as a
ftateiman and warrior, he is fuper-emn-
ent. He is a prodigy Of human nature
He is viewed by his enemies comet of
the firft magnitude at a difance, they
admire the awfui grandeur of both, but
the approach OF either they dread, as the
precurtor of certain defruction.
Thus unhappiy circumfanced is Great
Britain, and fhe viewes her fafety in war.
She conceives that by peace her great
and only national fafeguard, her Navy,
mutt be diimantleG that her numerous
foreign leamen will return with Joy to
their native flores; that her national fea-
men, in part, will be compelled to feek
employment abroad and that, when I'M
perious neceiiity lhall again require her
navy, in Its Preient vigorous late, an event
which would rapidly follow, tie meajure
zUonId Be Hnpraaicabie. and tie reJaif her
c0nqHeR Her eagIe-eyed fatefmen act on
this principle, and have declared it. They
have even declared that a peace mutt ef-
tablifh their national iafety and this they
view as political impoiiibility
On the part, then, of the United States,
will not good policy look forward to the
continuance Of war, IN the participation
Of which they have been, and will contin-
lie to be in danger.
Each of thefe tremendous powers, preients
i;fef at different times 70 United America,
with the affected attachment of dilntereited
admirer, But are they not diGngenuous and in
exorable competitors And however Impair
TALLY fhe may conduct towards them. when
either merely lulpests that The favOrs the 9th
er, is not jealous phrenzy thereby excited,
urging the decree of American deitru6ton
In iuch imminent DANCE, is there not an in
dipeniable neceGly of union9
Shall we not hen cordially invite the other
great department Of our government, the
Judiciary, containing our summaries of law,
,he able aud learned councillors and pra6ti-
tioners at the bar-our Respectable aud pious
inltructors, the clergy, whole love Of coun-
try and promotion of union during the revo-
luton is pledge of their lupport-the citi-
zens Of the other learned protection, who, at
thar eventful period, in patrio,ilm and Prov
els were inferior 10 none-our respectable *
wealthy farmers, merchants, manufacturers
aud mechanics, whole ruin would be compile
ted by inteltine commotons, fhall we not in
vite them all TO aid in the preiervation of our
union
Will not this desirable measure, If commen.
ced BY government, be iupported by the con-
ffitutioaal sovereigus of the land. the people :
Will NOT every friend to his country resollect
the lacred truth, " that an houie divided againlt
itfelf cannot ltand :" Will he not determine
for himfelf 10 relinquiih party fyltem, and
the practice Of mifrepresentng, and uniuty
reprobating, his political opponents viii
he not magnanimouny impu!e to his fellow
citizens I'D oppohtiou, miaaken zeal and pat
rIotism, and cordially embrace them' Will he
nor discouutenance every attempt 20 wound the
dignity Of the press, that great palladium of
liberty, when urged to proitiIution and abule
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