Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-09-07

peDQSnCS OF tHG " OldtESf 10 SAGAA Oh
the energies of lis mind, IL searching
out the Causes of the distress and dis
may, that now prevade our land that
il is lis duty 10 speak respectfully OF
Rulers, bar freely and -eSoiutsiy of rheir
measures /; to examine them ; TO scru-
tinize their causes and fearlesslyto
proclaim their pernicious effects, and
dreaded tendency and by conversation
and writing, reasoning, Persuading, and
convincing, and by all other legal and
honorable means, to effect removal
from our national Councils of their au
lhoFs.
ResolJsd-That our national calami
ties are imputable to, the course OF
measures, adopted and pursued by our
Rulers for number of years toward
the two belligerent nations OF which
measures the most lamentable was Tie
refusal Of President Jefferson TO comply
with the offer of q u Britain 10 renew
our treaty Of Commerce and NaWga-
ton, with her, which had been made by
Washington ten years before, and dur.
ing the existence Of which, the increase
Of honor aud prosperity TO the Ameri-
can people was without example. Al
so the refusal Of President Jefferson in
the year 1906 to lay before the Senate,
for their consideration and advice, tn
treaty, which men Of his own appoint
ment, Mes,rs. MuBroe and Pinkncy,
had negotiated with the British Cabinet /;
and which said Ministers declared
would secure to the u. States greater
advantages, than that Of Washington /;
lnasmuch as said ministers had TO treat
with the great and acknowledged
friends Of America in England, and
who were then at the head other Ad-
mlnistration Also the NOnlntercourse
law, the Non-importatIon acts, and the
whole series Of Embargo laws, which
have been imposed upon the people,
during Jefferson's last, and MIR. Madi-
sons present reign, furnish additional
evidence of the deep rooted hostility oil
those Administrations to foreign Com
merce.
ResotUed-That by the late dcclara-
ton OF War, our Rulers have had re-
gard, neitherto our prosperity, nor hon
or. Our fellow citizens had millions Of
property on the ocean, and in foreign
ports part ofwhich has been captur.
cd, and the residue exposed to capture,
by the enemy, and bring poverty and
ruin on its Industrious owners, and fur.
Their impoyerlsh' our already empty
treasury. Il exposes our defenceless
coasts, and seaport towns to plumber
and conAagration. It causes our
ploughshares to be beaten into swords,
and our pruning hooks into spears. 1t
further demonstrates the alarming IN
fluence of Bonapar;e in our National
Councils two years ago, after emu
merating what, he SAID, were the causes
OF war by the United States against
England, he declared, that " war i'll fact
then existed betweenthe United States
and Great Britain.;" qUhich very zv0yds
orr Rulers haze submiSSiUeiy ADOPTED ia
their zynr act against that Pogger. Our
National honor did not demand war a.
gainst q. Britain lift could not have
been avoided, il should have been de-
clared against Franc for ifthe former
had chaslised with whips, Bonaparte for
years has done it with scorpions, Ad-
ministration by inficting on Us this last
and worst of evils, compels us to be-
lieve, that their design is to give effec-
.tual aid to the French Emperor, in
thus accomplishing Oh our part, his
Continental system, against, what he
long before called, :" TIE common enc
my"
ReSolvsd-That We feel the most
unfeigned gratitude to the minority in
Congress, for their able, but unsuccess-
fol efforts, to prevent the passage Of an
act, 7vhich bears the mark of foreign in
Ruence, rather, than that OF candid,
honest, and impartial investigation and
which is fraught with all the evils, tAat
can impoyerish, humble, and ensIaye a
nation.
ResolUed-Tbat we cannot suppress
our honest disapprobation Of the con.
duct Of those Representatives in Con-
gress from this State, who united with
the enemies of our commerce, in des-
troying the principal source, on which
We rely for support and that had they
consulted the interests Of fhetr c0nsfifu-
ems, their vo.ce would never have been