Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1810-01-22
TIE 4rgHS ia its Element.

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We are not sorry 10 see the Argus
sinking into that chaos Of ignorance,
faIsehood and nonsense, IN which the
minds Of its writer's have always been
erovelliag. The zeal which they have
protested for the god of Jacobinism,
svho1, they ignoranfIy 7g2rahih," has
not produced any thing in the Argus,
TO answer the expectations Of those
who established it. lis columns are as
destitute of information S intelligence,
as :hey are of truth and candor, 1t
must be that the administration or its
deputies for the District Of Maine, have
withdrawn their Countenance and sup
port, because they have not espoused
their cause with sufficient consistency.
Perhaps the mixture of lies and hypoc-
racy has not suited them. They have
our coincidence in their present power
w, and our hopes that the administra-
ton viii not leave them to perish in ut
ter despair. They ought not to prove
ungrateful to them because their story
is told, and the repository of their
minds has spent its full force. For
"No fanli.y, thar takes vpheLb
When first It laps and scarce can yelp;
NeYlects, 81 turns him out Of gate,
"When he's S,ozrn ap 70 dogs cstate''
If we noticed the Argus, or anv Of the
sage writers IL that sage paper, more than
the idle zrlnfs, which blows at US without
iniuring US, we should dilate little on the
absurdites and Infamous prevarications con.
tanned in some of their late papers. The
best WAY IS to let them go on and they will
destroy themselves, for malice always
drinks one half of its own poison" The
truth is so obvious to them, that in their
last paper they have blundered into it. They
blush themselves, and say, that any person
'wh0 cherishes the American feelings,
must blush in reviewing the writings of
foreigner in THIS VehicLe of siandeY' They
need not have told the public that their pa
per was filled with SANDER and lies, be-
cause it IS evident to every one that reads
it. But they say that a foreigner writes for
1t. We have heard that the py0jcSsed editor
Of 1t was born in the British dominiOnS
But were we not sensible that he is inca
pable Ut writing a sentence OF English, we
might suppose that he is the real editor. We
have long been of opinion that the editors Of
that paper were foreigners in heart, but now
we have their owl words to prove it. They
NAV perhaps have made small mistake in
asserting that they were sold to British
xiezvs, but we believe them so venal, that
they would advocate the British cause, as
well as it is evident they DO the French. As
they have larger share of vision than we
possess, they may possibly see the daz-
cling brightness of the Republican Star
we cannot even discern it. II they
mean by this the meteor Of JacobInism,
we trust that it has shone forth in al
its glory, and that it is now OF tie de-
cline.
Present appearances indicate that The sun
&c Federalism, whose rays are truh And
-,He RebH5icanisnl, is now chasing away
the clouds Of error and deiusion which have
prevailed ior more than eight years past,
and will destroy the influence Of Il { dof
,stdr Of democracy.
Will the Hrgug editor make his pa
per speak through ignorance, Ian
guage he did not intend We give
him leave TO correct lis error, and then
ask him for his frOojS, when he pirates
of "JorcignerS -