Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-11-08
Thursday last mentions having experienced
severe gales on the cost


The Editor ofthe American Mercur
saws" 1t gives US great pleasure to con
trast the present state of our country, at tn
present period, with what il W IS while go.
srned by federal demagogues
How diabolcal must that spirit be wbic,
can take pleasure in contrasting the pres
ent and former situation of The IN, Ell
States While the country was govern d
by those whom the Mercury calls federal
demagogurs, IL was in the most prospe, on
| and envisbe condition. We have the ac5
nowledgmeni of Mr.. Jefferson, that wher
he came to the chair, we were in the tu.
tide OF successful experiment . Our com
merce, as the Same man declared a, The
same lime, was prosperous and extensive
So as rising all the seas" Our revenue y as
immense, and the national debt RAPIDLY di-
minishing We had scarcely any take,
| md no double duties. Collectors did not
then annually call for land tax, end enter
our houses 10 take an inventory of good,
liable to pay the expense OF an aboriye and
disgraceful War. Our merchants and M
chanIcks were not forbidden by law 10 pur
sue their honest business, and denied The
privilege of loco motion, on penalties of be
ing shot by the pimps of custom houst
officer. There was then no at,emp, to dr.,
| &c citizens into the army, and deHuer iii m
oOer TO cowardly and brutal sword bearer.
to be driven Into the fioz, wild, OF Canada.
In the time of federal demaeogues, the
flaming ruins of his CAPT oil did moi Iigh, the
President in an ignominious retreat to ths
woods and mountains.
Pleasure In contrasting the present siua
tion OF our country wi its CONDITION in fed
eral times, is either insane or Internal. ii
the man who avows il, is not a maniack, h.,
must sympathlzc IN the mutual graduation.
1i Mi'on's devils, on the fall OF man III
Par,dise.
Notwithstanding the glorious state of tie
ceun y a present, the Mercury man eau
lions the democrats against relapsine into ].
state OF a'eless security. We have eve
~ thing says he 80 hope fom oursei-
yes 90 SATAN tells Sin and DeAth:
- ''''''' ''''' On yonr jos'tt vagour no7v
MY hold efthts new KINGDOM all defends
your JONI fo7Uer IN eUait. ne affairs If HrI.
20 6efr'ment need tear 80 and be strong
. y her republicans" says the Mercun
" came INTO ottire, they found Dur county
oupk 70 the lowest Geph OF degradaion
nd disgrace III the eyes OF all Europe, and
ur commerce nea Iy III dc stroyed by
Great Britain and the Ba,ba y Powers"
Mr Jetie son gave very diffrien, a.
count oil atillrs, when he, good lepubli !,
cine into tffice. He Told Us hat we W.,
IN the full tlde Of successful experiment.
that We were j" rising ns'i0n, who,,
commerce was trayersing eli the seas
We also distinctly recolLecr, thar he boa !
tingly talked Of our being PROSPEROUS a
Iome and respected abroad" Now II.
Editor OF the Mercury may settle this dl
lcrcnte between his assertions AID Mr. ].
{ sons, in what manner he pleas.s Boz,
GannOt be true --Dedham Cox
Il BLESSED stgte IF Socjety-The following articl,
from New-orIeans will show what barbarou.
race Of beings democratic folly has incorporated in-
to our union as feLtoaC sliisensn
NEw-ORLEANs, SEPT IL.
The affairs of Europe have excited most extra
ordinary interest in this section of the union Par
ty contentious have arisen TO an unbounded deglet
diminishing and even assassinations { axe place a
mong the hostile powers Of this ;ty at least week
ly. Last week Of eleven burials, IRE uere caused
Oy The po,gnard.
The Editor of the Aurora who is engaged in
partial war with the incumbents of the palace be,
gins TO complain that his paper is iatercepted or sur
pressed. This is an abuse that we federal printers
have long been subjected to. The liberty of the
Press without the liberty ofthe Mail will soon be
of little Conscquence.-lforfhtrn iFhig.
A Mrs. burke has been apprehendtd in n
York, for beating her husband 50 unmercitul
ly, that he died in day or two afterwards.
resolution has been introduced in the Yer
mont Legislature, by ignatius Thompson, Esq.
for altering the name of Washington County
to that Of Jeffe rson. Rejected. How some
men venerate the name and the virtues OF
Washington The author of this republican
resolution, is the sage legislator who once NOV
ed, IN the house, to alter the name Of Great
Britain by strcking out the word Great.
Vermont Vntchmaa.
The N. York papers of Thursday last state
that 6 A fish not recoected to have been be-
fore seen in our waters, supposed TO be
Thrasher was caught yesterday afternoon by
happening in Spermaceti cove and brought
al n