Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-11-14

to the hands OF the preient communications Nv
they are to reftore it, buried as 1t now Is unoci
mats of deprecated ocks, untitled loans dcredted
lreafury notes. debts unpaid, and debts uplquidaea
they mutt determine for Themselves, looking to tns'
account to which the country may call them.
II was worth our while to inquire, how 1t has hapPe
ed that p,bc credit has received such Tremendous
shock. Wnose is the fault !! When those n'saSu'es
were begun which lene tb brought us where we
now are the public credit of the u States WAS as 81
as that of any nation EARTH whom are mpu'ao'~
the shame and disgrace oil Its prostraon and ah -
what is it owing Not any dehI'sney III tne ha'o"
resorces To sustain the credit Of te government ho'a
Ae Sc rotary of the Treasury and the Sommit'ss Oh
Ways and Means tell truly, that the real means oil inc
nation have been abundant 1t then, the ADMINISTRATOR
received the public credit high and honorable condi
ionf the nation has all times possessed the means
OF keeping and the administration mas posseeseu as
has sufficient control OF these means, and h after ALI
the public cred ha, gone to fearful wreck and rum VINO
alone is answerabe Tor such state oil things! VT VINO
refer present condition. TO any other cause 'hah
an incompetent management OF the powers Oh govern
mens The basis of public credit is confidence In the
national resources the duration and stability OF govern
and in the competency and Character oi those WHO
administer it. 1t is owing disust OF the recources
Of the nation Of the general organization ana struc
Of the government that the public credit has SUNK SO
low. The OF this to be sought elsewhere
No system Of taxation, merely as such, VIII prove an
adequate remedy, especially this late hour Ohess
the administration court backa general commence,
only in the wealth of the naon but also IN It's own
ability and the wisdom and fitness oil It's own measures
public credit has gone far beyond lis grasp.
As to a more able successful prosecution OIL the
War he protesscd be sangune IN that hope. mat
the people will defend themselves wIIhspnh whenever
attacked admits doubt but lar as the prosecution
oil the War with the government, he despaiied oil
any change in the MANNER any difference In The result.
fhe adminstrao appeared him not 10 have changed
It's habits. Il continued togo on us OLD party Pa-'o
eve,e round lis party centre, and to draw All us neat au
It's light its animation and its being from party sources
The of ability with which the W al hadoeen con
Quoted, about equal the OF prudence wh
which declared and the oil the issne Win
change OF auspices would probably be poportion-
ate 10 both.
He had been struck with paragraph in Mr.. jEFrER
sons late letter. Speaking OF the INVASION oil lhls place
by the enemy he says he advantage oil this nation
unarmed and unprepared. For the partial Judgment oil
triend, this is sufficiently severe. The government
took lis own time to go War-lt invited the enemy
TO the conctl is attacked two years aerward, IN the
centre OF the nation, the veiy threshold OF the capitol
and even there is found unarIfled and unpre2ared
he government was indeed unprepared When 1t went
to Wa-lt has been unprepared ever since and 1t the
contest should last than twice as long the
War OF the Greeks and the rro it will come
end, before the country upon the present system oil
things will be prepared for its beginning
state OF mere imp eparedness, however, was not ex-
actly the whole OF our when War was drclared.-
fnere was something in it than that, even aside
from the character of the ITSELF and the opinion
which one half of the nation had OIL it.
The country had had commerce. the abundant OF
its barbarous and unreenng series OF
of self murder, called Ressrcons had put end to that
commerce 1t had had a sinking fund containing the
sustaining redeeming principles of public credit This
was abandoned. 1t had useful National Banking In.
stituoD, with solid capital and sound principles and
which had proved itself ny twenty years experience,
be capable of Offering the most important facilities to the
operations of finance. This also was destroyed Having
made these provisions for revenue, for public credit,
hnancial operations, the government tell itself In cond
ton to invite War!
than have seen to harpen While it renamed on
our part War of invasion, nothing done and now
when in attacked by the enemy, the defence
of the country the people and on the States, al
mos unasisfed by the aid OF government In wha, quar-
er OF the country does the government afford efficient
protection the people In assailable places, the
obliged call thtir militia, upon their
own responsibility, and The strength OF their own
resources and here, the heart OF the nation, .
force Of five thousand has routed and dispersed the
government and the ashes OF the capitol
the soil which claimed peculiar and exclusive protec
He had said session, and he repeated it now,
that go, ernment had failed in the discharge Of lis
first great duythe object Of all gOvernments-the
protection OF the people.
lie wished also The House and the country to consider
how stood with all the neutral powers OF Europe in
relation to this War Ii had been said by his Honor able
friend N York. Mr.. OAKLEY, tina, the ears OF the
Eu opean shut against u.s. File believed this
TO be perfectly true he adninista ,ion itself knew
better than my ndvidua that had not been able to