Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-05-09

Inough, furely. If they had NOT enough
with all the loans, and treafury notes, &
taxes we have witneHed, God help us
when they JbaA have enough, | fay. But
they had credit, government had not be-
come bankrupt the Manhattan BAN
were willing, and believe able, though !
do not exactly know, to pay their
draughrs. They had usaney enough then.
Men enough money enough and a.
way they went, all cock whoop, for the
conqueit of Canada. ~
their conqueit conGlted in leaving the
Niagara frontier to be dcfolate, while
they cooped themfelves up, at, French
Miils-th.ir conquef was cffected BY
running away from French Mills, becaufe
the Britiih were TOO powerful to render
1t fate for them TO remain there. even on
cur Gun Ede OF the ST. Lawrence.
out who oan behold the gallant folder
Obliged to fca.apcr with nothing but The
flap.e Contents Of his knapfack, 70 depend
upon TOR iuolittencc, in his long march
back 10 the place he ltarted from lalt fall
without emotion Is this degraded, THU
humble initrumeut, deprived even Of
the FOLIAGE of conGdering the Riil OF
his commander--is this ipiri, broken be
ing to b. raiisd up again to the dignity
OF folders darling ! Believe il not, nope
liz aot. Confidence is as necefary to tn.
folder, as ltomach IS to the glutton.
Such are the exploits of our ftatefmen
Such the ACHIEVEMENTS Of thofe who lead
our warriors to battle SUCH. men may
well feel the necet1i,y Of offering baaaysl
and tzveatyt f. u aslar5, and one hundred and
J.xfy acres efLand, to tempt even the har-
dihood Of Patriorifm, to enlit under
their banners; for the price they pay, is
the price Of bla2a, it is not the price of
-lsrv,ee it is the price Of lf. Aud 70 it
oushs to pc.
And now, what is :hcir vindication !
What their apology! They, who have
iquandered 10 much blood, money, aud
nAuonal character-whst is their excu(. !.
20, II sve zveye b1t united aiming ouyjslvr5."
And 1t we were, the only refult thar
could be expected, would be, that IT'LL
more blood, It'll more money, till more
character would be lquandered.
Inc houle buiit upon the fand Is not
more iecase, enough the fand be rallied
mountain high.
The ipendthrift who fees thoufands
and tens Of thousands before him. will be
beggar at lalt, a. certainly as he, whole
inheritance conlst but of hundreds.
The ignorance and impotence, which
have lquandercd hundred millions of
money, and thirty thoufand lives, viii
not give better account Of double the
amount Of both.
Genius and talent turn fmall things to
great account. Ignorance and folly de
troy all that is committed to their care.
We have loft mea enough we have
loit money enough: if union among our.
felves, would have the effect of commit.
ting till greater quantity Of both to the
weak and defpicab.e men, who have
proved themfelves inadequate to great
enterprises, then let Us ardently pray, that
fuch union, delfructive as i. mutt be,
of what is vet left, may never be found
among as for fuch an union would but
ruin US more entirely than we are already.
But would "union among onrfelves,"
in truth, make the war 60 on better than
it has / anfYer, no. Democrats will not
enliR now, although they are in favor Of
war. Would federalitts enlilt, if fby|
were in favor of il! II they would, then
it mutt be, becaufe they are 70 much
more honeit than democrats, becau(e they
would fight in fuprort Of war, which
they deemed jua and neeeaary. And if
they would, then they are the better par.
ty Of the two, and the democrats ihould
join them.
But even federalifts would never enlilt
20 fight in war, not of defence, but Of
conqueR. Nobody would--nobody does
from patriotifm. Want, poverty, might
induce them nothing ellie. Federalilts
and democrats are all alike in this par
)ticular.
"Union among ourfelves," would not,
then, procure more men Would it pro-
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