Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1811-06-24

ton. bv charging them with things
| which thew are not guilty! You ho'
| the newspaper before YOU which con
,ained the resolutions and made copl
aus extracts from them ;--how coul(
Won then upon so solemn an occasion
and when appealing to the Con O.
| Truth, make az assertion with intent T.
prejudice the public against The devo'
| ted inhabitants of Boston, so utterly
destitute Of support shall cause The
resolutions to be republished, that The
People may Judge betweenme and yon'
which of us is slanderer, The only
alIusion 10 Great Britain Which malevo-
lence could distort is where we com
plain of having our trade cut Oft with
the only nation with whom we can
have ANY safe or honorable commerce, al
luding to our being permitted to trade
without plumber, or an imperial licenee.
This surely is no Praise.
OF similar character, and uttered
with similar motives, by you, is the toll
lowing -
"Of late wears the Z" dismemberment OF
sour union has been an dUoSucd object IN
t" the ministerial papers Of Great Britain,
I" anC. to efect ii a war has been urged a.
" gainst these states"
The design Of this malicious sugges-
ton is, first, to prejudice the public a
gainst the British government as again
aiming 10 rcacquire the dominion OF
these States, thing, which you, Sir,
do not believe, though you are willing
to impose upon your more Ignorant
partizans ;-and, secondly, TO connect
the odium of such project with the
inhabitants of Boston, and the federal
lists generally, whom you would repre-
sent as aiming to divide the Union, for
the wicked purpose of throwing them
selves under the dominion of Great Bri-
tain. This you kno7v TO be UNTRUE,
and the suggestion is as MEAN as it is
MALEvoLENT-I have had access to
the files of British papers at the ~
Men@um. have inquired of mer-
chants, who in the way OF business can
see them more than you can debut |
can find no one who ever met with such
a sentiment. 1t cannot then be true,
as you have stated, that Of iafe gears
it has been an aUo4ved object in the min
iStey1ai fzaherS."
Ola minor species of distortion, mis-
representation, and departure from
facts, there are numerous examples in
your Excellency's speech, of which |
dare say you will excuse me for select
ting only few-perhaps | shall not
stand SO readily forgiven by the public
for thus dishoEoring the State by hrov
ing such charges against the First
Magistrate to be true.
When your ExcelIency IS pleased to
terrify the inhabitants Of Boston (for
assembling to oppose your eleclion),
by threatening TO remove the seat of
government, you say, that
/" 1t is remarkable likewise that such have
been the politics of almost every metropo-
" lis Of our Sister States as to have driven
[" from it the State Legslature--the reasons
" assigned have been the influx offorelgn.
"ers and collection of the declared NAL.
"contents OF the National and State Gov
"ernments
Now your Excellency knows, that to
make an assertion with the expectation
Of being believed, and with intent "a
prejudice the Country gentlemen a.
gainst the Metropolis, which YOU did
not know 10 be true, is as inexcnsablc as
to assert what you know 70 be false
Now for the facts. Did the Legislature
of New-Ham2shire remove from
Portsmouth 70 Concord on account Of
the politics of the former place ? Was
that town filled with malcontents a.
gainst the National and State Cove, Il
mentS Was that the reason Of the Re.
moval of the New.York legislature 10
Albany /! ON the other hand do YOU
not know that until this year New-Yof
has harmonized with its dem ocratic ru-
lers, but Albany, to which they reno
we'd, Is opposed 10 democracy and 10
our present national rulers Isnot The
same true of Pennsylvania Were
not the politics Of Philadelphia in har-
mony with the State Government until
THIS year Is not the same true of Ma
ryland, and of South Carolina Now
what instance can your ExcencDcv
point out! Was it not rather a fabrioa.
tlon OF the general texture and mate
rlais OF the rest your Extraordinary
Address, IN order to excite, inllame and
embItter the neonla &c IL