Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1815-03-13

Hucuce, terminating III production Tor
PARTICULAR men but that great NOR
al and fociai change is contemplated. A
change which fhall undermine our priv
ileges, civil, literary aud religious which
aims at proltrating our judiciary, upturn-
ing the foundations of our feats of learn
ing. and rendering the Executive, not
the head of the State, but the tool and
the creature of party influence Need
we call the recollection of our fellow
citizens to that genera. fyfem of party
Prescriptions, which, at that time, pre-
vailed ITO the removal of Sherii5,
Clerks and officers Of all defcription do WI
to the fuperintendants Of prifon Ito
the creating of party Bank for political
purpofes, and with a view to deitroy all
other monied inititutions Need we re-
mind them Of the odious mode of divid5
ing election diitricts, not with view to
local convenience, or with any regard to
constitutional obligations, but foley TO
fecure certain of continuance to party
power "A political crime 10 new, and
unhcard Of, that the terms Of former
fpeech failed in expecting its enormity /;
and for this purpofe new name has
been added to our language I'm the
fame f9irit, and for the fame purpoieS,
the Militia were Geryymaadersd. Need
we fpeak of Law Officers hunting old
newspapers after pretended libels, at the
individual mitigation of The Executive,
and paid for thefc fervices out of monies
of the State, on the mandate of THAI Ex-
ecutivt, without appropriation and in de-
fiAnce of our Contribution? Shall we re-
cal the ihameful recollection OF the days
when a Bid we'll had the charge of the
morals of our State, and Skinner the
care OF our rreafury or exhibit the one
abfcon ding for forgery, and the other
delinquent to the unexampled amount OF
Seventy 7bOsEsnd Dollars i! Let US not be
deceived; nor believe that, becaufe this
party adopts for its candidate, one, who
was late a Federalit, the mott abuted
by them of any in our political ranks,
that therefore their projects of devaaation
are lefs tettled, or comprehensive. They
know well that this man thinks thar he
can guide the form after he has risen by
it But they know better than he. that
thofe, who fubmit, for the fake of psrfOn-
al purpofes, co become the tools of men,
whom they defpife. foon fink even below
the level of thoie, by whom they are
uied TIC gain confidence with thofe.
whole teGets they embrace, fuch men
ever outgo, in party faith and party
works, the mott violent of the feet. If
they faulter, they are fure to be fpurned
by theif new friend 3, and not to be &C.
cf2ted by their old
1t will not be expected of us to enter
into detail of the virtues and talents Of
the Can dldates we propofe Long lives
devoted &c virtuous efforts and patriotic
energies are wtnehts of their worth
They have walked. for many years before
this people, in all the wildom and upright
nefs, shich is given to man. 10 contin-
ne iuch men In power ito keep things,
in MaDacbHlsffs, as they are, and 10
maintain that iteady and elevated courfe
which has ditinguifhed our State, is alb
folutely certain, if the friends of order,
of Peace and o. Comm cree permit not
themieIFes to Aeep on their ftations, or to
be deluded from their watch.
Let US then be true to ourfeIves and
the God, in whom we truft, will neither
forget nor forfake us.
JOSEPH WILTON, Pyesideat.
THOMAS GREENLEAF, Sec'y.