Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1810-02-26

speace eitabliihn ent.
He qaizzea The nation by his Glly
iembargo, and other reltri6iions upoR
commerce. holly inefficient, as TO
the purpoie fer which they were de-
IGgncd, but ru:nous TO the bef inter.
els Of our own country and fuch
was his eagernefs to render this quiz
efe6tual, III hopes of thereby aiding
BoNAPARTE, that he was perfectly
willing to deltroy commerce wholly !;
although be well knew, that without
foreign trade, the farmer anc me-
chanic, as well as the merchant,
mutt foon be impovcriife d---and
alto, that while cut off from fuch
trade, we could have no reUenue,
without having recourfe to dirs7 fax
atm. He could not but have been
aware of fuch consequences /; be-
caule it is fcarcely TO be prefumed
that 10 great pbiisGbber, as THoM-
AS JEFFERSON, had never read Esop's
Fable of the blockhcad who killed
his goofe, which daily laid him gol-
den egg
He qizzsd large portion of the
American people, by his numerous
articles TO inaame their refentments
againit Great Britain, the only pow
er that, in the event Of hoftilities,
could greatly ipjure us--and whole
government is difpofed to make us
reparation for the injuries we have
iultained from her while he ftrove
TO palate, if nor to conceal, thofe
multiplied, enormous and incehant,
as we'll as unprovoked, offences,
thofe trcfpafTes," as Mr.. MADISON
has been pleafed TO ffyle them---
which the French tyrant has long
been in the practice of committing,
both againit our government and
citizens.
He quizzed the nation, in his pur-
chafe of Loujfana in his fms fory
aboutits extending, eaewardly, to the
river Per4id2---and having, in the
Welt, huge Salt Mountain !
He qmzzed the nation, by fcnding
land very lilly too, one SHORT, as a
minifer to RubIa la government
with which we have, or ought to
have, nothing TO do and his fuc-
cefor has, recently, repeated this quiz
by defpatching the office feeking
JOHN O ADAMS on the fame foolifh
if not criminal GRAND.
He quizzed the nation with his dry
docks---gun-boats---and other pro-
je6fs of i1nsVation, worthy of mad
eyn pbilgioPbey.
In fhort---for if we were to go on
with reciting the qmzzes that have
occurred from the election of THoM-
AS JEFFERSON as PRECEDENT of the u
nitcd States, down to the kudicrous
quiz of the making SIMON SNYDER
governor of PennGivania !! there
would be no end, to the undertaking !;
1.-the lame THOMAS JEI FERsoN, by
his Incompatible knack o. qmzziag
the people in great variety of ways,
while he was in power, as well as
before; bv the arch gmz of +" nomi-
mating his fucceiIor )" by his 9mzzmg
of Mr.. MADISON, ever Gnce bis &C
ceflion to Proficiency by the late Gu
rious quiz put upon the people, in the
cafe of Mr.. JACKSON, the Britilh
MInilter, in confequence of the 7sf
terj5nia7 fyitem of policy being till
puriued; and by quizzng---through
the medium of fucb fccond, third
and fourth rare quizzical fub agents,
as GILES, BOB SMITH and EPpEs---
the United States to the very brink
of ruinous War though deftitute of
either yevenAes or the means Of de-
fence much lefs of efegjfve hoftili-
ties BY fuch a fyficm of qmzzmg
as this, we FAY. has the peaceabk, pat
ri0tic and tbiLaatbropic tbib6pbv,
THOMAS JEFFERSON, contrived to
quiz the good people OF this country
to the verge of defru6ion
All this is, truly most serious quiz
ing But, we will fain hope that
the charm, by which the people have
been 70 long and SO previously qmz-
zed, is pretty nearly broken. War
has no attractions for the quiet, in