Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-10-31
ooh ! if we were but united'll

his exclamation is the burden of Denocracv
Its votaries would charge all our miseries =, ~.
want OF union. Like the mutinous Inaorty of :
ships crew, who had driven able steeryrneI, fro,.
the heln, and run the vessel among breakers ust
as sue ~ gong 10 pieces on the ledge they cry out
most Pteously On, If ace ,eeye duf anitea',!
Well, gentlemen, and what if we were un;tsa
What il all the good people of these United ,tates
were 81 one mind, and all resolved to push on the
present offensive war, and to conquer the Canadss
would TINS anon make james Madison a better
man Would il give him wisdom in the select;o,
oil ms advisers; Would he have been less devoted
to the views OF France, or less hostile tn the CON-
merce OF New-Englaud? Could such union of ali
parties have given courage to Wilkinson dissertation
and GOODNESS to VIM. Hull, common honesty to
Armstrong; Would il have fortified the CITY of
Washington, or put guns in the fort below Alexan.
ofIaF Did want OF this union exhaust the treas.
ury before the war; or has ID caused our money To
be wickedy sluandered, as il has been. on spies,
pumps, bloodsuckers and informers /? Would !, in
tact, have made the leaders of the war-partv honest
or capable !?
But some inveterate Jaeebins obliged to ansve.
NO to all these questions, will seek refuge in the
pretence that foreign nations would never have
dared to modest US, had they not known we were
divided people stop, gentlemen; not too fast.
England, though by no means the first agressor nm
our rights, issued her famed orders in council but
few months utter Mr.. Jefferson was a second tim.
elected, and that by i6i votes TO IA "a majority
without parallel il the history of elective govern.
mehts' surely foreign nations could not have sup
posed we were then divided people Did France
calculate on our divisions when in 1898 ,s6 1913
and 9s, she passe, most unjust DEGREES, conscatins
our property and even exposing our sailors to be
hanged or did boEaparte rely ON the support of
hs friends among us, when he stole thirty millions
OF our wealth, and issued orders to burn sink and
destroy" every American vessel on the ocean,
Let US examine the subject little farther Tho
Federalsts are chargedwith preventing enlistments
But is 1T trueP The fact is, our wise and provi.
dent rulers, in the first year of the war, enlisted
large force for one gear only. The soldiers, nine
tenths of them, were Democrats. lhey Jared hard.
and were beaten and tortured with whippings, for
the slightest offences, by any upstart subaltern who
had Commission to disgrace. The officers Il do
not include few honorable exceptions, were men
OF no skill and integrity and our armies experen-
ced nothing but disaster. The soldiers whose term
OF service expired could not be persuaded to re-en-
list but such OF them as survived those shameful
scenes returned home, execrating the hour of their
irst enlistment. Not village in the country but
has heard their complaints. These are men who
warned their deluded countrymen; aud the damn
ing facts they testified discouraged Others from en-
listing.
But how many troops would you require to con-
quer Canada L have never heard more than
fifty thousand demanded. he United States
tains seven millions of souls of whom four millions
must have been Democrats at the declaration OF
war. Suppose only one million grown males to be-
long to that party, who had pledged their "lTes
| and fortunes" TO support the war. Could not one
out OF twenty of them be found to redeem the pledge
by lighting? Ii Mr. Madison's friends themselves
| are so cold in the contest, with what consistency
| con they accuse us, who always opposed them ON
| this questions
Again, the emptiness of the treasury is said 10
| have been caused by Federal opposition. IL fe'i-
eralists had in truth potent csntrou OF the ma
tonal purse, the money would not have been disSi
pated, as most Wiley it has been. | grant that
| many honorable minded men OF this party, disap. Z
proving the declaration of war both to time aud
principle do still think it disgracefuly inconsistent
TO loan their money TO carry il on. And they thns
correctly. SHOULD for fourpence-hali-penny iena
a mad-man my razor to cut my throat, because, LOT
sooth if did not, another person might sul
however, Federal hank officers hare emptied the
own vaults to fill those of the national treasury luz
fact is notorious, that most Of the banks IN Mai@
have reduced themselves to the greatest straits Ds
| loaung their money in support of war; when tm
very stockholders condemn, as Ill timed ana mos
shanefully conducted.
But why complain of want Of money! when you
nave the power To tax rs, and when Mr. MaaiS@
,ays zoe pay SO tciliiagiy and so promptly! ii
speaks the truth he can obtain money enonSs j
Let us then hear no more about want OF moneyne =
! OF federal opposition to loans.