Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-09-12


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WORTHLESS favourites, wild projects, and
fucidal war in addition to which, we
arc feveral hundred millions in debt
THEN, our reiources were adequate to
all our occaGons.
Now, we are reduced to the condition
Of paupers, who have neither wealth N
re, nor credit in future!
THeN, we had officers trained in the
revolution, or by revolutionary men
Now, we have fubftitutes, from the
military fchools of Duane q A,na,png!
THEN, the taxes were 70 light, as
fcarcely to be felt or perceived.
: Now, taxation grinds the poor man 70
powder. aad oppreaes every order-with
a dreary rerfpecti.c of worfe to come,
and gloomy certainty that there is moth.
ing to gain |! I!
Union 7oSpn, Penn J ing. 10.
On Sunday night, 3ist ult, party Of
armed soldiers from the recruiting rens
devious at Brownsville, entered fhe
house of scertain Ja.es Smith, in Plump.
sock, and forciby dragged him from his
bed saying that he was deserter, and
must 90 to Brownsville with them. This
enterprize was conducted with such SCI
crecy as to escape the notice of any per-
son except the helpless family of Smith,
& negro man who lived adjacent. short
ly after the party had set out with Smith,
the alarm was given by the negro to Sc
veral of the seishbours, who armed them
selves and went in pursuit ofthose friends
and protectors of the liberties of .mcri.
Ca they were overtaken at about eight
miles distance, and the inn 5Cent unof.
Tending Smith was rescued from the A.
merican press gang, and in the Course Of
a few hours res ored to the arms OF his /.
wife. Mrs. S situation at this time was
fuch as demanded the most tender atten.
ton of her husband -her feelings Can be
better felt then related.
Can such outrages be tolerated in
country that boasts of a government Of
laws ! Is the law of the country to be
.rampleG on by men merely because they
wear the arms of the country! If Smith
VISA a deser.cr, which cannot be proved,
because it is q well known fact tnat he
never enlisted, could he have been ar,es-
ted BY this party unauthorized as they,
acknowledged, and In the manner ia
which the arrest was mace, without the
croft Il violation of the civil law. or even
without an aHumption of military au,hor-
ity highly criminal, and demanding inme.
date punishment We apprehend noe
and cannot withhold an exprefion of our
surprise. that the officer who commands
at Brownsville has TAX n no measures to
reprefs such licentiousneis--b bur on the
contrary, has minated an intention cf
seizing the person of Smith, unless he
should come forward and clear himself
of the charge Of desertion |!
We ask the citizens at large, whether
one single initance of inprcfment, such
as that juit related, is not infinitely more
inexcusable than dozen, nay, an in6nity
ofimpreGments of nstaralized citizens by
foreign enemy? FS: the latter we have
declared war. and have sacrificed thou
sands of our native sonsl May we not
then expeo. thar those more aggravated
offenders shall be brought to due legal
punishment [tayette Spectator.
Our privateers ftill continued to take
Swedish, RulIian and Spanish ve1els.
and to fend them in for adjudication.
Before yvs went to war, our war-hawks
ufed to cry out luiily in favour of the
principle of free ships making free gaads-
Now, the ca;e is altered. -1rentoa pa.
General Armltrnng has at length re-
figned his office as Secretary of War and
gone, like Mr. Jefferson, into signited
retirement. The Editor of the National
Intelligencer states, that this measure
was taken in consequence Of thu public
preiudices exiting against character 70
frauyht with every virtue, 10 luminous