Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1813-08-09
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The Presidcnt's dnswer 20 Mr. We6-
ster's hesoiunoas.

sfer's hesoiunoas.
The Ministerial party, ou' 81 Gong, css akt
great airs upon themselves sinre the ru3a
cation Of the Psesicen.'s Answer The,
pronounce it TO be paper IT the INST ebsf
scier. calculated to Put to final res, Il.
charge Of French influence in on Cabiae'
and to accuit he .P.esident # all I'M uta-
,iun If want ofspi,lt or dlgn,y in h,s me-.
course with the French Court. Hsy, IL is :
vowed, that he is uadrr great obligations 20
Nc. Webster. snd he tederslis,s in Con
gress, for giving him 20 fair n oppcrtuni,,
of coming ont before he public, and OF
encreasinG his popularity, even beyond the
pi'ch,o which IL hsd previously attained
The federal psper. are said 20 be stuck
dumb, to be appalled, by the f.c,s disclosed.
and the force Of reasoning by which they
are accom- MED. X seems little surplus
ing. th4t the democrats, bob foreign and
do.ies,ic, who conduct newspapers in this
country, have no, yet leaned, that h. fed
erslisis never yirsd 20 bully,ng-lbst they
are not 10 be- brow beaten from their ground
tina. the mere tpse aixa Of no man, espe
ciallv OF men so notorious for hypocrisy.
fraud, and imposi ion, as the principal men
in our sdministrs ion, never passes wi US
for Nv or fact. They have too often been
found guilty OF fiisehood, to pass for men OF
credit" they are NOT, in bo,ni Of ceraerty,
upon footing .uah mankind in general. !"
Late in me Gay ~ !, Is W. propose TO make
some rem arks upon thls answer and whei,
the democratic editors sgsin declare lhss
the f-deralists are put to silence by the pow
or ofthis State paper, we trust they will
find i, necessary, al least, TO except US from
The charge.
The idea tina. Mr.. M.dison is under obi.
cation 10 Mr. Webster for furnishing him
with IN opportunity to come or IN this case,
is some what rems ksbe. The justice OF II
will be better telt. afer few facts have
heen attended 10. On the l2h of May
1912, Mr.. Bal wrote his letter, commu-
ncating intelligence of lie srench Repeal
ing Decree of the 28'b II April, 1911. and
stating that the Duke Of .Basssno declared
to him, Ihs, the knowledge OF ,h.t decree
bad been communicated 80 Mr.. Russell.
On the 1i,h of May. 1912, Mr. Barlow
wrote the same intelligence to Mr.. Russell,
who was then in Englsnd. On the SOL of
the same month, Mr.. Russell, wrote TO Mr
Secretary Monroe. denying tina, the Decree
had been communicated to hun. When
this letter was received we do not know,
blu L.. s fair to presume IL must have been
a, lsss, as early as the al OF august. of the
same year. For eleven months, then, be-
fore the delivery OF the Message, in ans.
wer 10 Mr.. Webs,ei's Resolutions, che
President was posse ssed Of The knowledge
of Tie Repe aline Deere, and Of the decsr.
alton that the Duke OF passano bad made,
tia, it was communicated to Mr.. Russell
and Of Mr.. Russelrs denial of the fact that
it had been commune s,ed to him. 1,
would seem rs II here bed been time
nough for the President TO have come on
if he had been disposed, and have gained
sll the popularity that the occasion was cal
cu'ated to give him, without waiting fo'
an invitation. II it should be esid that ht
was too modest, we have only TO say tina
modesiy is not The crying sin of The JET
fersonisa Z nasty, and If i, IN this instanc.
struck the President, we can imagine ths
its novelty would sstound his fscul,ie S
though we should think he would have
recovered in less lhana year.
But there are circumstances which lead
us 10 doubt very much whether the President