Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-02-13

nau been completely 0aWSu, and, had IOst
Niagara, and Kingston, and Prescott, aud
Montreal, without reasonable hope OF re-
gaining them il in the prosecution Other
nefarious projects, her people had become
discontented and divided, and her govern.
ment bankrupt; without, men, and unable
to raise any, except by q system which
would doom the head of her prince to the
axe !; without money, and that not to be had,
though sough. for BY asystesn Of taxation
cruel and unsparing beyond all example ). !
ask you FEpERALIsrs with all your mod-
Grafton and agnsnimity. ask yo1, what
would be the measure of your justice TO
Eng and,Sundsr such circumstances! Jost-
~ incensed, and b. iiliansly pewefh.l, what
would b. tht measure Of yosr justice
Would you grant peace simply because
it was asked! Would you forgive, or would
you cdaslises
I,who know you well, for ! have Known
you long who know how purely devoted
10 our sacred country yen are, how inno-
cent of the villain uttered epitbets of tory
and BRITISH partisan, know what you would
say it would bs, punish the invader, and
take his a,renglh from him, lest his iijus-
tice. bring US again into jeopardy. Ii you
would say SO, sr..ly those whose practices
and whose lives have been dcfornicd at all
| tines BY an unmaply and rcsengefui hatred
to England, would say the same !; and this
nation would be unanimous 10 coniinne thc
war. Blu. if you should know not only that
the British cabinet had with the most de-
termincd raalignity commenced is attack
at moment when, struggling with ano-
Their, and gigantic foe, our CONDITION was
desperate, but that the grea. hldy OF the
British people hsd madly and cruelty Sc
conded ns cabinet, at the outset and adj
hered to il, under accumulated naisiorlunes
and disgraces, simply because OF theii en-.
nifty 10 our country /; what, fedesalists !.
would ycu say then, to . cabinet and ma
ton. thus equally frantic against you !?
Wound Joa zxsy :. ffqrgsve Y or would
you say, schastise y Would you ter.
minarc tic war, because you We're entrest-
ed or woiId you continue it, that you
might weaken and instruct your sdversary
can readily fancy ina, some intempcr-
ale democrat, mad with Madison, mad With
the teceraIists, ard mad with himself, is
ready, bursting with s.xa,ion to say, . his
man is rory, he ia advocating the ErIAah
side :"
Gentle reader let the fool pass You
and understand each other well. You
know, that if the picture have drawn be
presented, with mere change OF NAMES,
to the British cabinet and the British peo-
pie, we do at once discover their feelings.
AS i have supposed zoe should think OF and
feel towards Them under given state Of
things, so do they, in fact and truth, think
and feel towards us. Whether they are
right or not, is what have not meant 10 X
anime. Who doubts that they think aud
feel as Lave described Who Can doubl !!
None does, and none can. Right or wrong,
wisely or unwisely so they think so theyltel'
Now, then, are The people OF England SO
much better than we are, or is its cabinet
so much better than its people, that they
will act better towards US, than we, under
simigaf circumstances, should do towards
them Inmy poor Judgment, the expec-
tation is ridiculous.
On the part Of our cabinet, as well as our
people, this war was mere matter OF feel
ing, and nothing else. Mr. Madison aban-
doned tho question Of impressment, and 1t
produced no sensation of disgust, abhorrence
or even dis,rust. For impressments he had
continued the war, and this war with all its
horrors and expenditures Of money and
blood, wss affected 10 be approved by the
people, because i, had the abolition of iur
pressmen,s for its object. MIR. Madison
abandoned bis impressment professions, &
yet lie is as much adored as ever