Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-09-12


they, with he 70. ce in the field are adequae to
| repei inva6on. Every man is determined to do his
duty.
Sir John Sherbrook b.s is-urh second Pro
clams ion requiring all Civil OlTicess todischsrge
the duties of their respective Offices as hereto
fore.
The fish brigs, lately b'ocksded in Magyar
have escsped. The American force having been
compelled 10 retire for want Of provisions.
Whose fauh was this !
Text" Yefsrday by an application
of Com. cambridge, we learn His Excel
,ency the Commander in Chief loaned
the United States fix q FOUNDERS Of the
State Artillery. to be ufed on board the
Independence, 74.-Laf We'd. B9f. Gent.
COMMENT.
Soon after the declaration of War,
when the dieinguiihed Soldier and Patri-
OF, Gen Brooks, fueceeded that toad
eater of EIbridge Gerry's, Dominion, in
the Office of Adj utant General; by d.
rection of Governor Strong, ths heavy
Ordnance belonging to the Common
wealth, in Bottom, were mounted on
travelling carriages and the neceGary ap-
paratus provided to be ufed in defence
of the State, fhould occaGon require.
One or more perfons in almof every
town in the STATE. during the FELTON, of
the legilature, in June 1873, will recol-
lect this Park of Artillery being on
Bottom Common. 1t was fneeringly
asked in the democratic papers and by
hundreds of Madifon's partizans at the
time, whether Governor Strong and the
federaliifs thought to frighten the geners
al government by fuch idle parade, or if
"Old Blue Stockings" meant to fight
Madifon.
Time, which tets all things, has
thewn what Gov Strong's object was.
Gov Strong's language and conduct from
the commencement Of this vile war, has
been to recommend and provide means
for protecting and defending the Com.
monwealth againf that food Of evil and
distreis which we now fee and feel, and
has been 70 wantonly brought upon US
by Madi(on and the mifcreant authors
and advocates of the war.
People Of MaGachuietts to whom are
you now looking for defence 7 10 the
authors of this war or its oppofers (? To
the meafures of James Madifon or Caleb
Strong by MIR. Madifon's meafurss
your State has been exhauaed of mil
lions, BY leans. You have paid your land
taxe,, Acegf tax, Rdmp tax, &c. DC. and
where is the money gone & is nozv going.
Let the fmoking ruins of your Capital,
the ftuation of the Seaboard and the
application of Com. Balnbricge, anfwer.
Are you the men and the defendants Of
thoie men who efabli(hed the freedom
and independence of the coun,ry--and
can you fubmit in 6lence to the men and
meafures which threaten you with fubju
CATION to a foreign power? Ii IS time to
fpeak in a voice, that fhall not be dlfo-
beyed, to your milf rulers, either that they
mutt change their meafures or retire.
Let this language, be loud and ilrong,
let every thing be conducted in confors
nifty to law and order. Let the People
be united in defence Of the territory and
no longer follow the Authors and Advo.
Gates of this deteltable, ruinous war
$50 ihall we have peace in our bors
ders. for wo unto that people whole ru-
lers are children"
The Editors ofthe Baltimore Telegraph prom.
ise 10 lay before the public as time and
heslh permit "a regular history of the late un
fortunate catastrophe, beginning at Admiral
cochraue's first appearance IN The wssers OF tie
20 ,omac, and ending with the conhsgra ion OF
Washing, on The vile receptions prscticed in
me National Ln'eiii5eaes,, Mr.. M4dison's mouth
n,ece, are among the principal causes which
a, eel the struci oa. In that psDer il was