Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1811-01-07

aati4n, and supplies the place OF wisdom
and bravery in Inc cabinet. This is indeed
> rlysterinus word. Economy has built
nAsy Of gun boats, for the dcferte OF our mar,
bours, and after -expending thousands OF
dollars. in raising these monuments OF M
t,sprk brv4erce economy has issued It's or
dcrs 10 have this I" floating bu.1are OF .he
country hauled into docks and preserved to
cope with those foreign seventy-fours'
which shall have the ins0lence TO invade
our coasts
However great may be the genius and
wisdom Of lhe nation at large, yet N the eye
IL The world, all their virtues I've AMI
breathe. if | may so speak, in the persons
Of their rulers 50 thai the character OF the
PEOPLE will inevitably be OF the same com
n,exion IS that Of their supreme magistrate,
who among civilians, is, with great soiem-
nifty, STYLED the 7fscrai he1do of the people.
what then NEST be the ideas, which for
eisn nations entertain OF Us They are just
what an unbiased mind would expect.
While the wi e pant OF the world is plying
our weakness aud degeneracy, the craft and
deceit Of the rest are employed IN every
possible way farther to Insult and degrade
Us, and using every artIhce 10 plumber and
COnfscate our property But we, IN dignE-
fel refinement, on this side OF the Atlantic,
almost insensible 10 tne tyranny and oppre:-
sion, whose desolatins fury has demolished
the furnishing empires OF Europe, continue
u throw out our weak and UameanIng
threats against tie French emperor, for has
unjust aud iniquitous conduct toward US.
4 But all these accumulated injuries seem 70
| have been forgotten, since i, has appeared,
! that the wealth Of our plundered merchants
J has purchased the love and respect OF this au-
gust tyrant. This is noble mode Of seek
ing redress for our manifold grievances, and
delightful way of establishing the re-
spectAblLy If the American Gag, and the
American eagle But he knows, and the
! world knOW too well, that The flag does
require profound respect, and tAat the Amer
lean eagle has, Q: late, become quite an
harmless bird.
America has had prophets and they
have told her, with xll fidelity, Of the evil
consequences OF chilling the courage, which
a remembrance Of Our heroic ancestors is
eyer calculated to inspire, by base sab
mission to insult from any nation. And like
wise CT tie dangerous tendency of lngraG.
ing 10 ,elga politics with our sentiments as a
$50 ai.IA--A'ttlS T~OllSt DQl tile
6rrun minstrel, who is failed 10 have
! moved the walls with the music Of his Tyre,
was al last despised and beheaded Our
prophets are dead-and tLeI warnings are
neglected and forgotten
WHAT avaI!s the great cutlery which is
made, that Great Britain has impressed our
seapcn, If no notice is taken of the impri-
sonnent If our citizens and the conhscation
OF thclr property in France / would not
pretend TO justify the British government,
II they have been guilty of unjustifisble con-
duct towards Us. But if France have treat
ed Us worse, why shall we hesitate to de-
claie x, and take those firm and decided
steps, which shall proven. depredations from
both nations wish the true reason were
generslly known it would be of service TO
the natisn. 1t our government acted like
men OF honor, tLcy would throw all the
emPeror's Protfers Of Iovs 10 the winds, and
demand, an the language Of ireemen, those
rights, 10 which We ae entitled by every
law, which can render one nation re specta-
be IL the eyes Of another This would
seem like a revival OF fruicr Patriotism.
But the age Of economists sHI Calcu!4-
tors" las succeeded that OF heroes and
statesmen; and the glory OF America is
deeply tarnisbed by the degenerscy Of tie
lImes I. The political saviour uf Cug country
would never own such men for lis dscI-
pies, Ur acknowledge Ghelr measures 70 lie
tne Iesult OF those principles, winch nc ev-
er I.UOUrCd TO establish ny his precepIs and
enforce BY bis example.
las genera! weakness in the admins
tratIon opens broad road for the advance
Ntnt 81 those ambitious and unpTincipled
Tuen, VINO are alWay 10 BE met with n a re-
puc!ica' ILsulutIUn, and who have proved
81 falsl 70 is Happiness. No one will
dPuht that the constitution, if its spirits
Y -lc Kept alive I'D the CSDduct Of the gov
ernm=nt, would prove a rock, too firmly es-
taOislsd 10 be shaken 1, the storms Of
parry, and TOO high TO be sealed 10y tie
b"idcsi flights u ambition. But If this
great Palladium u Our liberties be disre.
tArdsd O. improperly administered, b.
thosr 20 whom it IS cntTusied,l the ever
"atcMtIi eye Of ambition viii Take advan-
tage OF Ibe deviation, and make It's Calcu-
lannon's accordingly. For the man.. \ hose
selfish natives ale cherished in preference
% ms love Of country, is surely to he re.
ga ded as suspicious character. How.
ever perhaps gge are not 50 much molested
ny this turbulent set OF men, as tire friends
Of Tie constitution are Ill tile sou; hern
STATES ) but this advantage is casual; we
are rather indebted 10 the iEnoJ ance Ut the
party, than to any positive virtue III tlIeir
dispositions. FOR political Jiehaes, though
not SO common in thIs'part OF the country as
farther south, are accidentally TO be met
with, even IN the District Ut Maine. These
men, who are held up as idols Of democra-
cy, are in grain, as rank arlstocrats as ever
lived in The world. They care not a straw
for the boosted "i5ey and equality" of the
people, any farther than il conduces 10 their
own Personal interest and advancement.
They are ever ready to f.nter and caess the
people 10 insure An eecrion TO o5ice, while
tEey inwardly detest them tor Ineir weak.
ness and ignorance. Such lengths Will an