Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-09-26

Resot0ed-- That, we appreciate the discreet,
independent and just administration of the
government of this Commonwealth under His
Excellency Caleb Strong, aud that in this hour
OF dyger, when our national government have
ccBed to protect It's, our only hope OF safety
is in our State authority.
ResoIcsd--That, although the present rep
resensative in Congress from this district, in
himself considered, Is too inefficient to be ca.
pable Of devising any thing injurious to his
Constituents, Vet as an instrument in the hands
| OF designing members OF Congress, he may be
and has been made use OF iii dong them much
Injury, by the physical force OF the upluled
hand, and the parrot psate OF YES and N o az ID
that the essential good of the district requires
/ that it should be represented in Congress, by
something more than a mere aufojHQton, all OF
whose actions are determined by the nod OF
characters whose views are hostile to the In
terests Of its Inhabitants.
Res5fred--' That having confidence in the
talents ard integrity ofSAMuEL \. BRADLEY,
ESQ. md believing that Inc is atriendto peace,
and tIlaf he will exert his influence IN bringing
its Blessings upon our country, We recon-
mend him to the friends ofpeace as a candidate
congress OF the United States Tor the Seventh
Eastern congressional district, ant that we
will exert ourselves by all far and honorable
means TO secure his election.
ADDRESS to the Electors Of The SeUemh East
eyn Congressional DisniG.
FELLOW CITIZENS,
Your delegates having been duly convened,
have decided upon, ana propose to you as
candidate for Congressional Representative,
SAMUEL A. BRADLEY, Esq. Its sut-
licient 10 say OF the man that they have the
most perfect confidence in his talents, IN his
literary, scientific, and political information,
and i'll his moral and political integrity. There
can be no question but that, if elected, he viii
do honour 10 himself and the district. If the
election were to be decided upon the base
principles OF party, SO great IS the majority, IN
this district OF those styled democratic, that
the convention would despair OF success; but
they firmly believe that the period has arrived,
when honest men OF both the great political
parties, will unite In support OF honest princi-
pies; when patriots, whether denommated fed
eral or democratic, will combine their excr-
tons to save their distressed country from de-
All uSliOu. COiiNSlitiOil dc duiOilS
class of citzens, who could not perceive the
necessity, justice, or even expectancy OF the
ruinous and disastrous war III which we are
now engaged with Great Britain, and who re.
main resolutely and from principle opposed to
that measure. They considered it as pregnant
with most distressing evil, to our country, and
they have found from unhappy experience
tina, those evils have been every day realizing.
The war is perhaps the greatest affection with
which our country has ever been visited. Its
calamllies are felr by every class OF citizens,
except II be the miscreant race fspeculators,
who are Cutting their Unsuitable avarice upon
the mlserles oil their oppressed fellow citizens
and who in the characters Of governmental OF.
Ulcers are making themselves rich, while the
whole nation beside is fast descending to a |
state of bankruptcy. Among these evils may
be classed the universal stagnation OF business
the constant alarm and frequent depredations
upon our widely extended seaboard; the nu.
merous detachments OF citizens to go in dc.
fence oftlose exposed sea-board towns, aban-
doned by our government to the mercy ofthe
enemy the host of direct taxes, and Internal
duties, which are preymg upon the vitals OF
our yeomanry, and grasping the last crumb |
OF bread from the mouths OF helpless wives
and children. Aggravated as are these evils,
they are made to wear tenfold deeper degree
of severity when we reflect that, but for the
ambitious and wicked spirit ofparty which ac-
tuates or did actuate majority of the nation