Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1813-04-12

/ Dately IcluoS VI tiaiioiCa t"oe 'i|'N' ~
feeble arm Of flesh. They have been
taught to shun 3" strivings and conten-
tons" and they will not consent to be
come harHzanS 81 zVranglers. In short
---they are sober, industrious, thriving
people, jealous in maintaining the pu.
rlty OF their own peaceable doctrines,
and decided in their opposition 10 what
they believe inimical TO the spirit OF
true religion. They must therefore ad
nit the evidence which is adduced, TO
prove their toryism, &c. Gc. Blu; the
su6fcicney OF it, they are no doubt will
ling to leave 10 the descislon OF the
public.
1hs .Nahona! advocate peeps out
once more as the champion not OF Gen.
Armstrong but of Gen Gray. had
said TIA, Gen Gray was not an Amer
lean citizen, and that he was liable to be
arrested by the Marshal of the District
at any moment, even at the head OF a
regiment, and sent off forty miles be
yond tide water. In answer 20 this
comes forth the redoubtable champion
of the National Advocate, and admits
that Cen Gray was born IN Ireland,
but says he could not help it What
then We do not mean TO say any thing
in disparseement of Gen, Gray's birth
place or his qualifications, We know no.
thing about him: but we ask hos he,
since he arrived on our shores, taken
the oath of citizenship to the country
that lHs thus exalted him to the rank
oil general over her armies r Does he
not tell us he cant help being an alien
let him take the preparatory steps then,
and wait ill he can IN the mean time
We ask, can there not be found some
meritorious officer oil the revolution
who has grown poor, as well as grey,
in the service of his country on whom
The post might be conferred !-When
the followers of Washington and the
partners Of his tolls are thus neglected,
thrown aside to make way Tor forei,n-
ers and aliens, what must the people
think, how must they feel, how ought
they feel ~. Y. Herald.
We have the satisfaction to believe
that strict investigation o.! Bassano and
Barlow's correspondence, and of the
suppression of the act OF the French
government, which is stated 10 have re.
pealed the Berlin and Milan DEGREES,
will be among the fest proceedings OF
Congess at the approaching session
That an exposure of this most detesta.
Bile and destructive fraud, by whomso-
ever it has been practised, should be
made, must be the wish oil every
good man IN the United States. And
as it is now clearly asCertained, that the
pres, ut ruinous and unnecessary war,
has eli her resulted from false assertion
of the French COVE nmen., or from The
treasorable conduct of our own agents,
the detec ION cannot tail, IN the one
case, TO produce immediate acoommo.
da,ion, and, in the other, 10 bring the
traitors to condign punishment-Nor
will all the sophistry of Lsttke NERO be
able TO supply defence.
The assertion of Bassano is either
true or false-ii true, the Suppression of
document, the PRONUNCIATION oil which
would have produced repeal of the
British orders in council, and frepenled
the war, was reason--if false, con-
cealment of the falsehood, and contin-
ued submission to the will oil the French
government, which had thus dictated
and continued the war, was tredson.-
Litlle NERO may mount either horn OF
the dilemma, but one or the other he
must lide.-Pokheat Register,