Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-03-14
II LITTLE SQUALLY, OR so!

the decision OF majority OF the
Republicans-but if it intends to con-
vey that he shall VOTE FOR HIM,
it is WRONG.
Mr.. AUsTIN is not alone in this consist.
ent resolution. We know Of many who
have made similar declaration; and we
have seen a private letter from an inauen-
tial democrat in Norfolk county in which
he Gays" certainly shall not vote nor
make any exertions in favour Of mongrel
Candidate and in this am assured Of the
concue rnce If numb., of our friends, Sc"
The following pertinent remarks are from the Fx.
aminer. very valuable political paper published
in New York, BY the celebrated Barnet Garde-
nier
Mr. Dexter tells US. that when the gov
ernment we're "kieked into war" he
did not feel himself at liberty to practise
indylerimiaate opposition" TO it. He did
feel at liberty, then, to practise opposition
but no man can accuse him Of indiscrimi-
nate opposition. Mind you :!.at. Now
does MI Dexter understand himself,
think you, gentle reader if he does, it is
more than you or do. But /. seems he
thought the war just yet for all that he
felt himslf at liberty to p,acti : eppastion
but then he has no mercy on those who
had not the same talent at determination,
the same accuracy at splitting hairs that
this great lawyer possesses. The truth
is, Mr.. Dexter had mere plain sailing to
do, when he was treating of the restrictive
system, but he has now got into little
narrow, shallow, crooked channel, which
he does not understand. although he cut
it himself. There is kind OF head wind
OF original honesty and good sense, a.
gainst which THE CANDIDATE has to
work; and being Obliged to tack SO fire
quently he brings up the mud now on this
shore, now on that, and is aground either
fore or aft, every tack he makes. Thus
feeling and forcing his way up this dirty
channel, he allows that "fhc privilege
of every citizen to examine the conduct of
rulers is unqueJtionable;" but, then, says he
with significant wink, claping his fin-
ger on his lips, be very careful never to
Ey word to any body of what you learn
by examining. II you find things going
ever so wrong -mum-not word -
there is somebody in the closet there; you
may be overheard by your enemies that
is, those whom your rulers have unneces
sariIy made enemies. 1t lie great deal
better to keep in ignorance those who are
wiling to be friends with you tomorrow
than to speak 10 your rulers in the loud
tones they deserve; blu, if you must needs
speak, 1pbispe, your indignation to one a
mother. l. to be sure, I, Samuel Dexter,
l will talk OF unconstitutionality, and Cor
ruption. and perjury, and injustice, and
oppression, and .sxes, and loans, and ia
tai blows because know how to sdiserim
inate, | will not only talk, will print; l
will give my accusations % the tour
winds of heaven 7; for know how to DIS
eviminafe.' You are stupid blockheads-
you, if you opposed at all. would rush
into " ma'sc,imiaate oppo,ition." You
would hit your oppressor in the face, in
the throat, in the eyes, in the stomach,
in the bowels; you would overset him with
the cross buttocks, and probably, in viola
ton of all the rules of political boxing,
keep him down, when you bad him down,
Bless my soul, Mr. Dexter must have said
what gift, what blessing. this talent
of discrimination is
Now for a little more Of it. "W,by
make publications to p,ove that sre are absoI-
vsd from allegiance to the national gpDern-
ment3' This question is really asked by
Mr. Dexier himself; Mr. Dexter, who
has already proved that we are absolved
from allegiance, by proving that uncon-
stitutional as well as oppressive and ,n-
just laws are passed by the national gov
eminent We were absolved from allie
glance to c ca Britain bee she pas
sed unconstitutional unjust x Oppressive
laws This fact was the pivot of the
revolution. Yet MIR. Dexter asks why
trove? The fact, to be sure is as you put
it but why Prove that we are absolved ?
AS the case is one of MIR. Dexterss own