Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1812-03-30
D:'orttanc,
Monday, March so, 1912
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Election Appr0acbirg.
FELLOW CITIZENS,

L!FCii0h approaching.
lFELiOW CITIZENS,
! Monday mex, is The day defgnaied
BY the Conititution fer The purpoCe
Of giving in your votes for Cover
nor, Ii Governor, and Senators.
The privilege Of chooGng your own
rulers Is at all times Important; but
az the prefent CriGs II Is doubly n.
The fmple confederation is not
whether MIR. Strong or Mr.. Gerry
s4all be placed in the chair of fate,
but whether YOU approve or difap-
prove of certain mealures. The con
Gequences which will relult from the
election in this fate are beyond ca
culation. Party feeling. and party
prejudices mutt be laid aide and let-
fobcr realon take the helm. IF YOU
will not do this your boaled pr.vil-
edges Of free and independent GOV
ernmCnr will f7or> eonfo to e-liCf. To
fay nothing Of the arbitrary and o.
prefIive mcafures which have marked
The progrels Of the ruling party in
power, the year paf, in MaRachu-
fetts, and which have impoled 5savg
taxe5 ut9n al claBc5 Of citizens, let
the lubjsa for moment be conGd-
cred in relation TO the proceedings Of
the general government.
Immediately after the meeting OF
CoDgrels the projea of War with
England was fet on foot. PreGdenc
Madifon, 10 his MefTage, gives out
the word "to arms" The hrt Hep
is the pahage of law rafting an ar
my Of tTventy fUs tboHland men
Owing to the reftri6tions impoCed
on commerce, the millions left in The
treafury by the federal adminiltra-
ton are gone, and it becomes abCo-
lutely nehary in order to meet the
payment of this STANDING AR
MY and other charges Of war and
the current expenles of government
to reiort to enormous Loans, and all
the other obnoxious modes of TAX
ALTON which are the curfe of =
free people, the ruin Of freedom, and
the iure harbinger of ARBITRARY
POWER & fevere OPPRESSION
Iheie are only a part of the evils.
which fate Of War is to produce
evils which can 6e averted only by
the voice Of the enlightened freemen
of New England, proclaimed bythsir
votes at the approaching elections.
The law for levyipg the WAR
Taxes has paaed the Houfe oe
Representatives., notwithstanding the
Federal Republicans and feveral OF
the mot respectable among the DEM
ocratiC party were oppoied to it.
This Circumstance has operated as
10 imall damper upon the advocates
for war Many Of the mott refpea-
able who have heretofore been found
in the ranks Of democracy are with
drawing from tbs administration and
determined TO fupport their meafures
mo longer ; and there cannot be
doubt but that TIE final queltion oE
War or Peace, reltriGted Commerce
or Free Trade, depends on the re-
fult Of the Spring Elections in the
, Northern States. If thevotss in this
and the other fates are in favor oe
the war partizans it viii be faying to-
Mr.. Madifon and his party, we Wits
for hoitili.ies, are ready to meet the
Collectors with their Bills for war
taxes, and willing to iacri6ce the liz
tie of our remaining Commerce ID
the ruinous lcheme of couquering
Canada. And are you prepared,
!fellow-titlzens, to engage IN this mad
I proje6t Then 60 to the polls ard
give your VOTES for its advocates ;
but on the other hand, if you are de-
firous for peace, and freedom from
taxes and loans, Gupport the election
of
CALEB STRONG,