Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1813-03-29

After this ltatement, PeVou VIII
not direct your fecretary tonos down
/" Judge Ford's property wa not
touched" T'
The remark lately made by Nr.
Roberts, a democratic member q
congrels from Pennsylvania to wit
that the members of the next corgreis
would not be 70 4ueR organized as the
prefant houfc of representatives, /.
worthy of the fober confederation OF
the people at large, as well OF honeit
democrats as of federalilts. 30 to or
panize the immediate representatives
of the people as that they will readily
obey the executive in all things what
foeyer, wonderfully facilitates the dii-
patch of public buiineis
In the reign of Elizabeth, men,
Der of the hou(e of commons began
to ipeak againt a meaiure that had
been moved by one of the couTtlers +;
when another member roie, and iald
to him, i" HUH HUH The Queen
will be angry" Silence enfued and
the meafurc was adopted. The
Houfe of Commons at that time was
well organized.
In Mr.. Sawbridge's fpeech in the
Britih Houfe of Commons (i777)
mentioning the long parliament under
Charles feoond, he iaid -"it is noto-
rious of that parliament, that whenev-
er any fcandalouS royal mealure was
carved in that houie of commons the
members were invited to dinner, and
found under their REFLECTIVE plates, the
fums which each mans proititution
was thought proportionably to de-
ierye" Here again, the immediate
representatives of the Britiih nation
wee qveA organized.
In iuperlor ityle yet, is the organ
ization of the French Coniervatlve
Senate. The members of that auguit
body are never at the trouble ct think
ing for themfelves All ,hey have to
do, is to obey the will of Napoleon,
the infant it is made known TO them
to u2port his bloody throne, to Hat
ter his pride and vanity; tof."n at
hi. fee, and to applaud bis meaiures
how ever odious, wicked * deitruttive.
Nor is America, as reipe6ts the
fpecics of organization in queition,
very much behind England, or even
France. Look at facts. OF theie
We ihall now men ion however, only
few out of great many.
Some five or fix years ago it P'eai-
ed Mr.. Jefftrlon TO reco nmend
general ard unlimited embargo. IL
was At the -. a politica, fiery
NO body. either in or out of congrefs,
could devife a reafon for it. Our
trade was highly profperous; therev
enue from it, duriag the then lait year,
was 70 million dollars nor was in
furnace remarkably high, nor any new
danger known to be ahead Yet for
all this. 1t pleafed Mr. Jeferfon to re.
commend the laid embargo, without
Eating the why and the wherefore.
Was there any fiinching' No, none
Mr. John Q. Adams, gravely RITES 8,
Jays, in fubltance, The Prehdent's re-
commentator is enough for me.
81 would not enquire, | would not
deliberate, would act So thought
all, shat is to fay, the difcipllned
troops of the place and, in trice
was paiieo the abominable act, by
which as i, were the vial of plaques
has been poured out upon every part
Of our country. Congrcfs was 1ueF
organized
On the fecoad day of November,
1870 MIR. Madifon ifued proclama-
ton, in which he declared that the
French enrees of Berlin and Milan
were repeaed, and that they had ceaf-
ed, on the day next preceding, to
violate the neutral commerce of the
United Sites. This proclamation
congrefs e,d5yEd, after the world
knew, and hey themfelveS mutt have
known, that the contents OF it were
falfe. Though there had been proof
upon proof that the iaid DEGREES
were Till in practical exiaence yet
the 1ueH organized congrefs, Ticking
TO the preiidents proclamation, pafed
the act OF the frlt of March, 1911;