Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-05-16
In the Pon. Office
Total

once that period, the army mas Oeen
increafed to about 60 thoufand men, & all
the officers under the fyitem of internal
revenue, have been created-which mutt
inereafe the number Of dependents on the
will ana pleafure Of the Executive, fome
thoufands. We know not the number
but we ihould think it would be mod.
crate Ultimate, TO put the whole number
of perfons who hold places. directly or
indirectly, from the Prefidens, at more
than IS thoufand Theie perfons are
fcattered tn ough the whole community
and they fwarm like the frogs of Egypt.
When their immenfe number, together
with that, of their immediate relations
and friends, who are 70 intimately cos
nected with them asto be frongly bias
ed by their Gtuation, and il a multitude
of initances, by pecuniary benefits flowing
from their appointment it is eafy to fee,
that the adm. iniltration have Obtained
hold upon the people. which will rot ea6-
ly be broken. And that thele appoint
ments are intended to opperase ~ bysbss,
any man of common fenfe and common
honeity will be convinced, who looks ae
the appointments which take place from
time to time. Every deierer from Fed.
eralifm is caught at with extreme eager
nefs. John Quincy Adams. William
Pinkney, and others, may ferve as exam
pies Of this fpecies Of bribery. The a.
vidity with which fuch apoRa,es from
federalifm are caught up, and. rewarded,
furniihes the ftrongef proof that the
Prelident ufes his patronage, as bait
not only for political gudgeons, but fu
more fubftantial fifth, who twin with the
popular tide.
In addition to this, he is equally care
full to pick up his old tools, after the
people have thrown them by as ufelefs
or noxious, and to beifow on them fuch
boons as the times surpifh The Seavers
and the Cutttes, &c. &c are of this clafs.
j This is encouragement TO perfavcrance-
+, an invitation to the mott feducing kind,
not to The auea,y in 7usA doing.
With HortenGus's leave, there feems
to be fomething in all this, which. in its
effects, is very much like penGan liz.
The next afIertion in this paAage is Fill
more extraordinary. "7br,e is no ieeyet
/srvice Money lays this tool of the Cab
met. Whoever the man may be that al.
fumed this Signature, he has declared a
deliberate and wilful falfehood. "No J<eyef
/syvice nseney," at the command Of the
administration! What money sas the so
thoufand dollars wantonly lavifhsd on
that fwindles Henryl We have NOT the
means of afcertaining the amount Of fecret
ferviee money which has been placed at
the difpofal of the two laff Prefidents,
Jeferfon and Madifon but we have no
doubt that both Of them have made ufe |
of more every year fnce they have been
in Office, than Gen. Warrington did du-
ring his whole administration, or than
Mr.. Adams did in his, Two millions of
dollara were put into Mr.. JeHerfon's !
hands at one timc
But the mott wonderful aflertion of all |
is, the following sour government hss
no hire but the zvsaitb confcyated BY virtue
and hanor." We ihould like to afcertain
the fact. whether John Henry and Count
Criilon, were lured to Warrington. by
wealth eon/sevated BY Virtue and honour.
We really fuppofed it was the tyeafx,y
cbef gftbe United States which they had
their eye upon, and eventually, their FIN
ger in. VAST a fuggeition Of virtue and
honour, that induced PreGdent Madifon
to write fulfome letter to old Stark, iuft
upon the eve of an election in New
Hampihire, and for the express purpose of
influencing that election in his own IA.
YOUR Have virtue and honour been at
the bottom of all the mean, bale. and cor
rupting electioneering tricks, (from the
hollow.hearted arrangement with Erfkine
to the late rumours Of an armiltice) which
have been annually played off to gull,
cheat, and cajole this deluded and hood
winked nation Was Mr.. Madiion under
the guidance of virtue and honour, when
he fuffered himfelf to be bullied BY the
Kentuckians, Ceorgiars, and TennefIee
men into this proaigate war, for fear he