Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-02-28

"ooia Pcipctua1e lls privileges 10 POI
terity Ii was thus that the unior
became the rallying word againit al
difcontents and jealoufies, and tha
the people faw, with apparent indiff
erence, the power pats from the hands
of thofe who loved, to thofe who
dreaded the principles of Walhing
ton being aHured, that it was to the
contribution, and not to thofe who
administered it, they were indebted
for their multiplied blefiin9s But
they foon faw. that the fame compact
which had RATED them to fuch all
eminence of PROPERTY might in the
hands of its enemies reduce them TO
dependency and diitrefs A fyftem,
at 6rlt cautiou1y developed, and
gradually put in practice, but 6nce
boldly and rapidly hAitened to its ex-
ecution, has dissolved the fair fabric
of their hopes and expectations T; and
has brought their minds TO the pcl
ancholy conviction that with the belt
frame Of government which the
world ever iaw, they and their chill.
tren ara doomed to fee and to feel a
bufes. priyations, and opprefi ms,
which the WORT governments have
icarcely ever inflicted, without being
oyer,hrown.
The memorialiffs have then emu.
merated the caufes which have
brought them to this unhappy convic-
ton. They have feen power grow
up in the fou,hern and weltern fec
tons of the Union, by the admiilion
and multiplication of ita:es, not con-
tcmplated by the parties to the conti
fulton, and not warranted by its prin-
cipIes and they forsiee an almoit
infinite progrellion in this iyitem of
creation. which threatens eventually
to reduce the voice of New England,
once powerful and etfectual in the
national councils, to the feeble ex
prelIion of colonial complaints, unat-
tended to, and difregarded.
They have feen this ftranee and
spurious power become the mere or
gan OF Executive DEGREES, and ready
to RICHTER every edict, which issues
from the nominal head of a republic,
with as much aac,ity as the obftqui
Gus rarliamen,s of All unreltrained
depot. They have feen at 6rlt an
i'll concealed, blu, at lait an open and
undiiguised jealouiy of the wealth s.
power of the commercial itates, oper-
ating in continual efforts to embarraf.
and deitroy that commerce which is
their life and fuppor,. They have
Teen this fpirit exhibit i,felf, in TO-
menting and enragingfubjects of diff
pute, naturally ariting between rival
nations, Especially in fate of almott
war /; in difficulties thrown
in the way of adjultment with the
greateff commercial nation on the
globe ; in deceptive pretenoes to con
ciliaie; in the adoption of The fyitem
of EXECUTION maintained by her great
enemy, and in fubmitting to the nu
merous injuries and contuneies of
that great enemy. They have feen
it alto in the various meafures of re-
Friction, prafticed towards our own
people in nonintercourfc and nonim-
portation acts, in an embargo, appar-
emily intended to be perpetual, and
abandoned only when the dittrefs of
the people manifefed itielf in VIC
lence againit this felf de0roying fyG-
tenn. Bur above all, they have feen it
in war, wbish, for its actual caufes
circumstances and consequences, can
not be parallelled in the hiftory of any
nation, which has not been given up
to the councils Of weak or profligate
rulers.
The memorialilts see, in this deplo-
rable deficient from national greatness,
a determination to harrals and annihi.
late that fpirit of commerce which
hes ever been the handmade of civil
and religious liberty, and to break
the free fpirit OF this people. by depri-
wing them of their uiua employments,
and thus forcing the ions OF COM
merce to populate and enrich the wei
tern wilderness, for the benefit of
tnole. whose avarice has contributed
largely TO the war, now dcfolating the