Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1814-10-24
,.Saltire Paris.

OXFORD, DC 70, lola.
Squire Paris,
SIR hese lines comes hoping you are well as
an at present. 4 received last week from our
post-naster newspaper called the Patriot with
your name on it, and he SAID it your hand wri-
ting. asked hun how you come 20 send suca
thiass to me, ana he said he did not know ana
hat great bundle OF sucn papers were sent every
post from Boston, 10 almost every man in iowa.
Ny son Ben had another al the SAME tune and he
thinks all this pains IS taken by you To make Us
,or you To 80 10 congress. L much OF .3en'a
mind, Tor you never kttc US tai this fail, and then
all oi sudden begun 10 send US newsIape,s--and
find that great bundles ol tnetn 40 ia the same
way la every part oi the county. ss, these arc 10
INFORM you thai Ben and shall not vote for YOU,
and TO desire you TO stop the papers and pay the
printer yourself lor what have been sent. / on
used to tell the people that the federdiS were all
tories, and wanted to bring into lordships, and
got away our money. sir the federals have turn
ed out as well as Others nave To fight, and and
was wrong to believe what you said about their
bein5 tories. As To iordships, II is piaia me thai
this war is running the farmers and all poor people
as we'll the merchants, and is bringing us exact
y where you pretended the tederals wished, tho
they did not wish DO And as for our money, your
party has got all we had and now are calling for
more, and L suppose will take our land at last,
unless we turn them out. The Eederais always
said that Jefferson never would perform his PROM
ises, when he engaged to diminish the wages OF
public officers and to have no taxes And they
said that he and his party would ruin the country.
Sir tins prophecy was true, and is come to pass ex
actly as they ioretold. And AS long as we did well
and prospered while they had command, and have
been going down hill ever since Jefferson came in
l am Tor farming cut all the party and putting
in better men. so you need not reckon my vote
nor Ben's for you; for we shall not vote for your
side any longer. We are tired of you. BESIDES f
we still belonged To the war party, We should rath-
err have an old-iashioned republican than you--
When YOU make long speech in Court, not much
To the purpose, and look round to the Spectators
half the tue, we know what that is for aud think
that young man that will turn Tor the sake of an
Office to day, will be full as like as not TO sell his
vote Tomorrow shoGld rather have an honest
man tho he may have been honestly in the wrong
all his days as TO politics, than To trust my rights
with one that left his party because they could not
give him IN oitce, and that sticks only where he
can get the most money. SIR, it is the opinion of
our town mat You had better take less pains 10 get
an Office, and more pains to deserre one. We have
found cut that you are not TO be depended on.
Sir, your newspapers gay that England has de
manded insulting terms of us as to a treaty, and
that we ought all to unite in supporting the war
Now don't read il l believe that there has
been some monkery in the business, and Ben saws
It's all contrivanee of Madison's, to make the
people more mad with England, so that they might
support him the stronger. l don't believe that
they would ask such conditions of Gen Washing
ton, nor of Rufus King. Besides, It's but an offer
Now ii asked 100 dollars to boot between oxen,
| should not think insuhed any man. Nor if my
neighbor had wrongfully sued me and then wanted
10 settle, aud should tell him he must pay me 100
dollars or else go 10 Court with it, And suppose
this neighbor sAould cry out to the jury to aaae
and give him the case, because l asked so much to
settle, whereas he sued me aud not him. Would