Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-11-14
From the Baltimore Telegraph.

in the United States VINO can &c MADE any
thing more than the wiling dGpe OF the ar
ou;nent. and views of the Secretary of War,
as developed in his late letter to the chair
man of the Military Committee. We take
the following extract as an instance:
"But it will not be sufficient to repel these
predatory and desolating incursions. To bring
the war to an honoursble termination, we must
not be coo,en,ed with defending ourselves
Dffe ent feeling ssmust BE touched. and sppre-
tensions excited in the British government.
BY pushing the War in Cansaa, we secure the
friendship of the indian tribes, and command
their services, otherwise TO be turned by the en-
envy against us we relieve the coast from the
desolalion which is intended for it, and we keep
in our hands . safe pledge for an honorable
pesce.
ut follows, from this view of the subject.
that it will be necessary to bring into the field,
next campaign, not less than 100 600 regular
troops. Such . force, aided in extraordinary
emergencies by volunteers and militia will place
us above sll inqAietude IS to the final result OF
this contest. Il viii fix, on q solid snd inpersb,
able foundation, our union and independence on
which the liberties and happiness of our fellow
citizens so essentially depend Il will secure
TO the United States an early and advantageous
pesce. 1t will arrest, in the further prosecution
Of the war, the desoistion Of our cities and our
coast, by enabling Us to retort the enemy those
ealami,ies which our citizens have been already
doomed to suffer; resort which seIf-aefence
alone, and sacred ARD for the rights and hou
cur of the nstion. could induce the United States
10 adopt"
Now, this is fair specimen of theNman-
ner in which our government, misrepresent
and distort every obnoxious fac, TO their own
liking 1t is fact az notorious as the bla
3ing beams Of MONDAY sun in midsummer,
that the English annoy our seoeoasts IN re-
taiianon TO, or inpasiun Of Canada. Ihis
fact has no! only been expressly ayowed,
Blu, it has even been made the subject of
diplomatic correspondence. 1t is plain,
that the English ejoice at our iruitless at
tcmpts to subIugate Canada, because il fur
nishes them with a pretext to employ with
such dreadful effect their tremendous tn
CINE of retaliation. They will attempt to
strike blow at the very vita S Of our pros
peri'y and greatness-Philadeiphia Boston,
New York, and Baltimore, are all success
sively threatened in requitsl TO- our Cana
dian invasion, and while public rumour is
every day p:oclaiming that Lord Hill has
sailed, or is about to sail for this express
purpose, our Secretary OF War quietly folds
his arms, and informs US, that "by pushing
the War into Canada, qoe relieve tie coasts
from me desoLafion thot is intended for II,
and keep in our hands q safe pledge Jor an
honorable heaee." Neither the recent al
tempt on Baltimore, nor the celebration
Of the capital, amongs, the ashes of which
Mr.. Munroe is now sitting, nor the state oil
our seaports, now abandoned by the govern.
ment and left to protect themselves, nor the
anticipated visit OF the enemy for the ex-
press purpose of reteliatine on our seacoast
towns, divert our administration from the
schemes OF their Canadian conquest sin
gle moment We are told, with an air OF
apparent triumph aed exultalion, that dia
mond must be sscrifised for apeppercorn--
that HE very mode of warfare by which
Crea, Britain can infict the most vital iniu
ry on us is perci.ely the mode which we are
bound in duty to adopt. This is no new
paradox of the administralion--Mr Mum
roe is not entitled to the honor of lis inyen
ton.
In full accordance with this policy, we
have seen thar the regular troops Of the gov
eminent have bsen withdiavn from our
seaports, and at the very moment when
they have been threatened by tie appear
ance Of hostile Acct, those troops have
Been marched off to Canada. But we did |
hope that this delusion would end here-we
did hope that when our seaports were aban-
doned by the government, and when none
were left but husbands to project their wives,
children, their aged tathers-b others |
their sisters-when the hostile thundelbolt |
was aimed at the dearest relation Of domes-
tic life, we did hope, that when no allerna-
tive was presented to us but our houses in
flames, or resistance, that our understand.
ings we're not to be insulted by paradox.
But these calculations, and indeed every
calculation OH the prudence or providence
Of the present administration, must, from
abs necessity OF the Case, prove abor,ive
The people are called upon imperiousiy to
repose confidence in such men-t to nicipate