Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-09-26
RESOLUTIONS.


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RESOLUTIONS.
The delegates from the several towns in The
seventh Eastern congressional district assem-
bled in convention, deeming it to be at al
times the right, and at this alarming crisis o
our national affairs, when an inefficient admins
tration is attemptingto carry on war OF con
quest in an innocent territory without sutti
cIent army TO protect itself from slaughter
leaving our widely extended sea coast unpro
Htccted against the vast naval power of the ma
ton made our enemy by the declaration o
war, end burdening the people with Cypress
i've taxes TO support host OF Improbable mer
In the various characters OF Assessors, Assis.
.tant Assessors, Collectors, Deputy Collectors
Officers and Soldiers in the army, sc. whom
they believe 10 be totally unnecessary and n
whom they have no confidence, thereby re.
ducing cur country from the highest elevation
of wealth, honor, and responsibility, to the
lowest ebb o. degradation, poverty and con-
tempt, to be the imperloos duty OF well disposed
citizens to take decided stand, and by every
honest and upright means to endeavor to cor
rect the public sentiment, and thereby to check
the overlooking current, which Is SO rapidly
sweeping to destruction, our rights, liberties
and constitution and believing that the sol
emnand deliberate opinions OF men possessed
OF the means OF investigation Opinions adop'
ted from the fullest information and the most
perfect conviction, will have proper influence
with all classes of citizens, they submit to
their constituents the following resolutions,
expressing their earnest desire to that Al
mighty Being, who has power to give efficacy
to truth, and to carry conviction to the under
standings of all, that they may be received ii
the same spirit Of candor with which they are
offered
Resotued-That, while they ought to main
tain with their lives and fortunes Just and
necessary war in defence of injured rights, II
IS not the duty of American Citizens to sup
port the present destructive and distressing
war with Great Britain, any further than to
pay that respectful obedience to the mandates
of government, which as subjects they are
bound to give; and that any voluntary aid In
carrying ii on beyond the necessary measures
OF defence, is an act of treachery to our below
ed country and an offence against heaven be-
cause the war was not declared in consequence
of injuries sustained by our country suihcient.
ly great to justify the measure; but was the
result of fatal and deep-rooted hatred to
Great Britain engendered III the minds oil
certain individuals as carly as the American
revolution, and which has been gradually gain
ing ground under the nurture Ut ambitious do
mestic dcmagogues, and facrious foreigners,
untu it has eventuated in disastrous war; and
because we believe it to have been declared IN
aid of the oppressive and tyrannic views OF the
then reigning, but now fallen and ignominious
despot o. France.
ResoiUed- hat the Officers in the Ameri-
can army are, in our opinion, with few exccp-
tons, class of unprincipled spectators; who,
regardless OF the welfare of their country, are
advancing their own Individual interest at the
hazard OF the property of industrious Citizens,
and OF national responsibility.
Resolved--That, while we consider res,
pectable navy as essential to the honor and
safety If our nation, and while we applaud the
valor of our gallant naval heroes, we lament
the dire necessity, which has brought them
into exertiun iii war, that cannot be Justihed
upon the principles of justice and religion.
Resohed-That, while we have ever oppo-
sed the present Improbable and wicked war
with Great Britain, considered it futile in the
extreme, AID anxiously desired peace, we
do not wish it upon dishonorable terms,
and that we most solemnly protest against any
arrangement, that shall make sacrifice OF our
rights; which rights we shall require at the