Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1814-10-17
THE GAZETTE.
Thursday, October Is, 1914.
Serious Facts.

preaching elections Of Members of Congress in
the different states, thai the Friends Of Pesce
to the Electors Of New Jersey merits particular
attention. Aver por,rsyIng he zigzsg. runou'
policy which our rulers have pu,sued with re-.
spect to our domestic affairs, the Address pre-
ceeds more particularly % point out their con-
duct as it regards our foreign relations IS fol-
lows 49,
In our foreign relation, the same crook
ed policy prevailed. The usurper and ~.
rant was countenanced, and all his projects
admired
France, jacobin France, was courtsd and
aided, while sic insulted and plundered Us,
md her enormities as much as possible
concealed
England was threatened and irri,ated-
treaties with her reiecied-her ambassadors
deceived, md sent away, and rveyy means
adopted to creale & keep alive resentment,
and prepare for her destruction, by long
FOUGHT war, when The piopitious moment
sculd 7rrive,
spain, lighting against the tyrant for her
liberties, caused no sympalhy-SpaIn tina
fought for Anne iican liberty, Possessed not
even their good wishes On the contrary,
they wished success 10 herdestoycr / hey
denied her br, d, refused her ambassaoo !,
ard seized upon her territories, and counte-
nanced The invasl n OF her provinces, placed
as they were under the safeguard OF A
merican faith and honoer
With Tripoli A'eiers, and the Indian
tribes, there has scarcely been cess ton
from wars, tribute, and expense
The invasion ofihe Indisn country, and
the burning their towns IL 1910, lighted up
tire vengeance, and brought upon the fron
tiers all the horrors OF the united savage
tribes.
Thus did the administration conduc, will
foreign governments, ge,tiHg deeper int
European qnsrrels -i'heY exhausted and
wasted the resource. of tie nation. III con
tenpibe schemes for starving colonies, OF
raising Instructions among European man
ufac,urers In passing laws CONDITIONED
to make them keep the peace, or 20 TO wal
with US; thus en- angling on, selves in nets
OF destruction made by our own hands
This race in the road to ruin seemed
nearly run, but enormity yet remsined;
and finally, after exhaus,ing the na,ional
resources in twelve Years Of prodigsiity
wearing out the national spirit, or, a,ing
disunion Of the state. and general disaF. C.
ton to their schemes Of mis- ule, withou
preparation, and scarcely with real preiex,,
they DECLARED WAR against G..
Britain.
Fellow Ciliz:n We have not language o.
d.p,r4 III. Sars. m~ opsartasn IF th,c
blow o the best hopes and interests OF our
beloved country.
How can those in the general govern
menl, who so rashly plunged their couatry
into var, unprep4red, and against an enc
my SO powerful answer TO God, or to the
people, Tor the DIRE adiul Consequences.
Surely they should no longer be trusted by
their f ilov men.
Nhat do We all bear witness to, but a
hchle divided, and dismayed cabinet.
Useles, armies employed on the lakes,
and devo1ring the Land.
Military commanders, withou, skill, sac.
rifc,ng brave men, captured, defeated or
disgraced, at every p int, throwing the
blame on the I'd niuislration, and the sdmin-
lstratlon on them
An exhausted if NOT bankrupt treasury
A destroyed commerce and az icuilure.
A captured o. blocked up navy
Our coas,ing vessels and trade demolish
ed on two thousand miles Of seaboard
Immense loans-gese,nment receiyiag
eighty-hye dollars, and pedging the p opie
to pay one hundred 20 the lender.
Multiplied and increasing taxation on all
the necessaries of life-the excise system
most inequl,ably bearing on the poor
Double duties, war prices, the exporta.
ton OF specie, and no txpor, OF our own
products. growing discomfort, and we fear a
dissolving confederacy.
Adesperate administration who refuse
peace and are shedding the blood, and
spending the substance OF Americans, on
questions about the rights Of English sailors
and emigraois
A people impoverished, distracted witt
approximations, exposed to fire and swo'd,
torn from their homes, and bleeding at eve
~ point on a circumference OF FIVE thou
sand miles
A stupendous system ofpublic frauds and
delinquency among contractors, army a.
gents, and the host of retainers upon gov