Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-04-18


Yours with much Respect and
"esteem
"James Irish Jun
" MIR John Ward
To General "RebeMon.n
SIR-AS you have, by voluntary acts, oh.
:ruded yourself on public notice, no apollo.
gy need be offered for addressing you on
the subject Of your letter to certain electors,
who, it would seem, are not sufficiently elf.
ted with the light Of political information,
to form opinions for themselves.
That you are and always have been, what
in these degenerate days, is called IRE.
publican" shall not pretend to deny. But
from certain considerations, well known to
yourself and many respectable gentlemen Of
the Federal party, it is not little a.tonish-
ing that you should volunteer your services
at this crisis, to defame the very men, who
have stood forth to shield you from the viz.
ulen; attacks of a faction of your own party.
Have you done this 20 mitigate tie pend.
ing wrath of a certain Major Ceneral!-Or
to do away those charges preferred against
you, by writer in the Argus, of aiding and
abetting the very persons, whom since, you
have thought proper to denounce! II the
former, the world may give you credit for
the most abject ard servile compliance, but
never for that proud spirit and manly iods.
pendence. which ought always to character.
ize the Soldier: if the latter, you stand con.
victed, BY more than fifty evidences, ofhr.
ing for once espoused righteous cause, 1
with the federal party equally implicated
yourself in approaching The conduct Of Gov.
STRONG and vindicA,ing the sovereignty
of,he State, against an ups,art pe,tifogger,
a mushroon-a mere fungus, produced By
the political hea, and presidential vapors Of
the times.
That you should, at any time have assn.
med character Of political independence
and integrity, so foreign to your nature,
surprized many who had a previous knowl'
edge Of your disposition. But so far Is your
conduct was that Of an upright man andcor.
rect officer, so far were the federalists will
ling to support you; and when you were
most grossly and violently assailed BY yow
ozvn par,izsns they interposed, to save you
from destruction. They and they alone
cleared you from the stigmas fastened up's
you. No, that they ever desired or expect
ed to make you political convert, but thas
they were anxious from the ahharsn' inses
riiy OF your motives, to do you justice.
That you are no, the svisest man in Inc
world is no fault Of yours-naiure saw M
in attempting TO make man, 70 spoa ~
work she had begun-But that you snou'u
have wantonly betrayed SO much cofrupuO"
and base ingra,i,ude is chargeabIe to your,
self alone, as the result of rancor Gus anu
malignant disposition, which detgn's ""'
duce the virtues it caiUot emulate. bus J"
j, is said, you feel perfect justification 10
what you have done. II you can reconen'
this assassin-like conduct to your o''n 'Os.'
of truth and justice, you are entirely -
come to the consultations OF sucn c0
science although Irity the bosom tna''r
Tor tenant so foul fiend.
No one fears your influence IN the POM
cal community, not even among 'n0's
totally deprived of all light, SO Sros'y"
rant as to be obliged to resort 10 you '0' -
formation. You need not therefore n''
Yourself, that you receive this honor o. ~
lie notice from such cause. NO. ~
writer is ac,ualed by more exalted n'0"
/, is to expose, that moral prohigac! ""
If no. discoun.enanced, would sap s0s "'