Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1812-03-30
SALEM, MARCH "a, 1912.
ANOTHER PLOT I! w!
The heat Of Election matches brood Of Plots
md Fd&ehOOds.

and FdESehOOdS.
Last Friday stranger Of good address and personal ap
Pcarance and about % ofsge, arrived At in
Haverh and stopped for refreshment After conversing
with some of the inhsbint and exciting their curiosity
and knowing that the Henry Pot designed power
full electoneerng engine for the democratic party TO
which this imnoto belongs he pretended that lie
Just from Quebec and had III his possession evidence Of
E0rfid by esteemed The most
upright and distinguished in the naonsnl that he had
actually seen the teasenshlz oorresPcndene gh htitls
officers As tie eeeton for officers in Hayerhll was
70 be held Monday the acobn demagogues caught
at the bait csressed the sagrant, took him Office
boye the Bridge and after much importantly persuaded
the man copy snd sign certificate which OF these
disturbeTs Of the peace bad prepared All this done
with the secrecy that usually accompanies vlsny for
they refused 10 permit Bailey Bartlett Esq 70 be present
and examine him After he had left H4verhil where he
called himself NarhaMel Emery The good people OF that
town were alarmed for the public safety and became IL an
uprosr for the DAMNINC CERT1FICATE Of this vaga-
bond was unphanty exhibited undoubted evidence Of
Federal Treason, BY Mr. Francis Eaton, democratic law
| yer, and Postmaster in hat town.
So great the fcrment and excitement produced by
this base and infamous affair." that rejecting
thought expecnt investigate and slft this mountain Of
tslsehood accordingly the pu sued 10 Salem,
where he arrived late at night ard called himself limo
thy oy and this place also said he Just from Quebec
In morning, it ascertsned that he
town, warrant obi aimed and he apprehended
| and examined before JOHN PRINcR, Jun. Esq He de-
MED none Of the tcs admitted his guilt and ordered
by the magistrate recognize in the Of FIVE hundred
dollars for lis appearance the Supreme Judicial Court
prison for tr for his crime. AN immense concourse Of
people attended he examination, and all disguised
and alarmed tile unfold Of the shameless and ADAM
doned and devices Tesorted by demapogues
excite The feelings Of the public every election des
troy BY base caumny the farest characters and
~ the most inqlous the totteTDg Of Deoc-
rscy.
Upon examination, he confessed that he had signed pa.
yesterday at Haverh charging col Pickering with
holding reasonable correspondence with the British and
sedgng that he had the letters from colonel Picker
4 he
lie pretended-tha he questioned very hard. and in
duced TO make the ststementtha he desired 90
an office above the bridge, and there the gentleman no.
sad be- he had been gentleman he would not have used
me sol wrote the paper which he the prisoner their
quest signed, and left there-that they wanted him
swear to il, but refused because Gas he said) he
thought II bad enough to lie without swearing
lie said, that when at Haverhil he called his name Ma
thsnsl Emery but that his real Timothy Medley
Joy-tha lie lives a. Middleton, n. H-had been a trader
but embarrassedihat he bore i'll will to colonel
Pickering knew nothing evil Of him. was sorry for what he
had done, nd should not have done it if he had fallen
into such company HaverhiL
In cOru5OraOn Ut his statement, wrs served upon him
at Middleton and sundry small and dated
there were found upon him. Isaiah Webster the mail
rier between Haverhl and Salem, who called
witness, stated, that Francis Eaton at Hayerh handed
him an bis office, Saturday morning, paper signed by
Emery, and told him that concerning
Die correspondence between Col Pickering and officer
IN Canada.
Thus we see the wicked measures to which party re-
8ost 10 answer their purposes They willing 10
splre to blast the good Of aged patriot who has
devoted his life 10 has country and whose character
saabe only by the tongue Of SANDER and the pen OF the
hoeler II Is 70 be feared that this nation will not wipe
WY the stigma OF ngraude from The character OF
uohcs Such conduct that at Haverhl, deserves the
utter deesaton OF every who has spark Of honor
honesty Is truly degrading that any should be found
Justify nr paliate it.
The man who intended 10 be injured did not know
ohe prosecution Such attempt destroy his fame IS
public crime, and such it prosecuted All
sderste feel their deep interest that dstn
suSaed ornaments should be wsntohly attacked
slst an election They will Judge rightly Of which
seeks support BY such and will dstrust their
y plots, conspiracies, reasons &c. which abound be-
fore COR elections.