Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-11-07
The reafons fhe aligned are honouYa.

1ei5, our formidable power lhry eX-
prefs fear of US. Is this degrading
iurely not But it is folemnly tue that
we are dangerous neighbours TO her, and
this war has proved it.
What Che demands is only that we
fhould do what we did before the war.
For * years we had not lhip of war on
either lake we had only the miiera-
bic fortrefs of Niagara, (ni(erablc I'call
it from perfonAl oblrrvAtiop) with feeble
carlton of 10 men As to Michilimack-
mack and Detroit, Ipreiume no man will
call them fortrelses though they had the
name o forts
But is it not true alto that in twelve
months we became matters Of all the
lakes and under good and efficient ru.
lers we could do it in fix. IL is idle to
fay that a nation OF 7 millions of people
are afraid OF being unarmed on frontier
againit colony. irastered colony OF
asa.aaa Er-nchmen. Great bri ain new
er did, and in cafe of an honef peace
never will maintain a force in thsfe pro-
yinces of more than 5000 men.
II then we can never be afraid of her !;
if her fubje6ts nave had dreadful caale to
be afraid OF our urnptions, is there any
thing 70 very degrading in ad hitting that
f.e ought to be afraid and IS afraid of US
End therefore that we viii keep TO force
ready 70 pouncc DOWN upon her uniutpec-
ting colonltts I!
To thoie who with when we have
peace that it may be durable, | would add
one word more. If we MAINTAIN force
on the lakes, Britain nuit do 10 too
From the ir,itariops, he remembrance
OF paf wrongs, the bitter fpirit retul;ing
from the late predatory war Oh that fron-
tier, colliiions aud quarrels mutt be ne
vitable. Our peace may be difurbed as
foon as it is made. II we have no force
Britain will toon Withdraw hers But
add there is little doubt if our miniiters
had met the Britiih offers in ipirit of
Cancellation this article would have been
modified to nurual demolition of forts
and diilnantiing Of ihips
There remains but one other queftion
Is this an mutual fipulasicn Have
not nations often demanded and great
powerful proud nations, unfubducd, I'M
conquered, perfectly equal, often granted
fuch conditions for the fake Of avoiding
future quarrels!
When men are quarrelling, the frlt
and mott narura! lympton OF reeonciha-
rion is TO lay aGde weapons Of offence.
Why rlaiitain any force on the lakes
wh-a neither they nor we have kept any
oil conieqhence for 80 years?
Louis XIV by the ,r-aty of Utrecht
then even at that moment the mott pow
erfui ioyereign in Europe, agreed to de-
moliih The Notifications ol Dunkirk to
quier he fears OF the Englifh and Dutch.
lie aid 70. The fame stipulation was
repeated in the treaty of AK la Chapclle
and OF Paris il 1902. In this la,ter trea
ty Louis XIV added fiil more extra
ordinary condition, ne agreed to demollh
the forts on the land Gde. Great Britain
dictated thar peace. BY the aid of the
brave people of mailAchuietts and Con-
necticut ihe had conquered the Canadas
and humbled Spain by taking the Iiland
of Cuba. Yet even Britain Stipulated to
cafe the fear of Spain to demoiih all be, |
fortiiications in the bay Of Honduras
Yes the conqasre, did this Ills moit !
.Chriitian Majeity the King of France al
fc agreed not to erect Notifications or
keep troops in certain paris cl his Eafl |
India poacflions. Icouid multiply thele
examines WITHOUT number
Ihete are enough becaufe they relate
to the two greateit powers in the world |
and one of them to this very enemy then
a conqueror
IL II derogatory to us TO agree t. thai
which theie nations even ia suceels asre-
ed to did, fay agree to it? it's donbt.
full whether it would have been United |
on but if il had been it would have
promoted and perpetuetea peace The
truth is, fuch demand is complimentary |
to US as il proves dread of our power.
PAClFiCUS. |