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

commend 10 the committee OF For
eign Relations, an additional army OF
only ten thoufand. BY this 1t was at
once feen that he did not ierlouily IN
tend actual and open war although
he had jult before sent a war meiiage
to congrefs The warhawks in con
grefs took fire. The Senate, without
confulting the Cabinet, paiied bill
for rafting twenty FIVE thoufand men,
in addition to the old army About
thar time MIR. Giles delivered in the
fenate a fevere philippe upon the ad
miniltration of Mr.. Madilon char
ging him with imbecility, with fee
be contrivances," with "little miller
able policy aud with trifiiing with
the character aud lnterelts of the ma
ton In lhoft, Mr.. Madifon found
bimfelf on The point of being forf'ken
by the men who had it in their power
to make and unmake PRECEDENT at
their pleafure whole will on this
point duly expreiied in caucus, has
been the law of the land he was
in diIctul dilemma; aud what could
h dc On the one band, he knew
as well a. any man, that a war with
the tremendous power ct England,
unprepartd Tor 1t as we were, mutt IN
svtably be calamltous to the country
at large and deeply 70 to the northern
nAvi atins ltales On the other hand
the voice of the Peuniylvania United
Irilkm IN was fierce for war. CUT OF
hatred to the government from whole
tria unals they mad fled. | ne voice
of the weitern itates was tor war.
They expec cd to make prom by 1t;
that the canada armies Won d ieatter
among th,m great deal OF Money;
that the Indians IN their nei. hb orhood
would be difpoG iled of their lands,
which thofe patri9ts had been banker
ing af,er that the deitruction of our
navigation and commeree, and the
hazardous ltatc Of properly on The
feaboard, would induce mo9icd men
to veit their capitals in tnc terra f.
ma of the wet, and of courle multi
tudes of the diitrel1ed Inhabitants of
the eaiteTn ita.es would be neczliia
led to remove ,hither for GublilteEce
and that when our poputDus lea
port towns were laid IN ath, their
wretched inhabitants would have no
other allcrnatlv than either 10 itdrvc,
or fee behind the mountain, FOR pro-
t ctIon and livelihood The voice
of proud Virginia was for war ! as
the fword would prop her tottering
power, and fecure the perpetua.ion
of her dynaity he voice Of south
Carolina, Georgia, & rennehce, was
for war as they had a patriotic
han.erlns for the tlorldas aad for the
mines of Mexico.
l. other circumstances, prradven
ture Mr.. MadifJn would have uied
efforts TO it-m hi torrent But the
election was at hand, and his iuceefS
hung by a Gagls thread For finch.
~ &c he ouriet, he had nearly been
denounced. Nothing remained for
him but to paefs OH with all his might
in war meafures, or be dropt in the
caucus nomination. AS it were, bal
auces were IN Ia, hand in one fcale
. as the eAsntial welfare of his coun-
try, in the other was four years en-
joyment of the pretidentiAl Office,
with the emolument of twenty five
'houfauG dollars a yesr-the former
icals kick d the beam. Had he been
preGlent for life, OF had he been,
lat June, firmly 6xt in that office
for three or tour years to come, mott
likely our country would have been in
peace from thar day to this.
If il be indeed 70. is one of the
mott abominable abu(es of elective
government that was ever heard of,
or that can politely happen. Coniid-
er the millions and tens Of millions
spent, and the fcores of millions
more, which mutt lhortly be ipent in
the war - conliier the LOT. OF our
chipping upon the feas, the capture
of our ieamen, the deitruction of our
commerce, the exp 'fure of our whole
feaboard to dcvaitation, the ruin of
nulritudcs of families and the almoit
ruin of large diltricts oil our country