Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-05-01
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'es' ,he first place, the beginning OF our ma
- ..;s,ence was unlike not only that OF
w po,nans, but of any other nation an
- modcrn. Colonies, revolving from
~ ! cocn,ry, claiming Independence,
n..,,og and establishing the claim with
word and then in time of peace,
mildons, not barbarians, bat enlighsen.
- s...uen establishing, without bloodshed,
e'1asmeotaI code of political laws, cloth
h;s code with the highest authority, and
Inc il g contain vistin ifsey provision
4. own amendment." Where was The
In constitution three hundred years
i ,he foundation of the City, commissions
we're appointed to ascert,iu the Limits
IA, Consular power; aid to prepare
az Of civil laws.
q he nex place, Just cast your eye up
Ne internal structure and monuments of
4. ,wo Governments. At Rome the whole
ar,hy of the citizsns enacted laws
"A IS legislation is in the hands of depu~
~. they had no checks upon them-
,ses we have conuivcd them in the scve-
Inv anG independence Of each State
rh,,e individuals were net only winked at,
5 4, ,opIaudcd for seizipg the sword Of civil
\ ;..tee. and putting citizens 10 death here
nan loses his life but by established
ans Of law. In short, at Rome the legal
wen ofihe people was boundless; the rab.
a. II the Forum could, in moment of
.s..;on, change the face>f every thing.
kghat came next ! Why Dictator of
<ourse. Desperate diseases; desperate
rrmedies. Is it not astonishing they lived
i long as they did (!
With all the ancient governments su.
Ep.rsli,ion was every thing; with US it is
sohing. History is full of proofs of the
{.ct. that superstition was often either the
cause or the Instrument of important and
fx,susiye revolutions. The authority of
our Holy Religion, tho by no means so
Great or extensive as We could wish, has
vet an incalculable influence.
We are commercial nation. The de,
sire of accumulating wealth is inherent in
man. The Greeks and Romans in this
particular fought against nature in various
wsys but she showed herself TO be mis-
ness. Lvcurgus perhaps thought he had
given mortal blow 10 svarice i'm Spar
tan breast. What was the result of his
experiment. /! He smothered the fame for
while, but at length it burst out with ten
fld fury /; and what might have only
warmed, was made to consume. The an
GENTS went TO an extreme of averice and
Injury, precisely because they came from
\ the opposite extreme as ball, rolling from
one edge ofa hemispherical w iel will Climb
the opposite sice.-I will observe here, tho
! little out OF my way, that our opinions, res
pedling the influence Of luxury upon free
states, have mostly been formed upon an
Gent facts /; and / suspect are not very
correct lin our own nation, every mans
.iarnn, or his shop, or especially his property
1oa The ocean is pledge to his country
Nay We be that happy people, who shall
have discovered the art of successfully en-
phying nature to regulate herself and may
abe result prove that by " forcing nothing"
We have obtained every thing.
The most important consideration yet re-
mains; Imean the invention of the art of
psnting.. lneed only mention this its
advaptages cannot be enumerated A
Sun to the political world, we see his light,
snd teel the influence of his rays. But as
ne natural sun penetrates into the bowels
q the earth, and there works unseen SO
'als may be gradually preparing stores,
which will enricb ornament, and render
happy, to al uncomfortable degree, future
Seaeia'ionsof men. The press puts at def
sace comparison between our political
circumstances and those of the Greeks and
Aomans. They lived in the twilight of the
'hoFaing the sun has risen upon us. But
rsm hot 50 partial as 10 suppose, that We
~ under his meridian spiendors ; and
VA nc VIII set with our exit. No, he is
- 'as 70 The East but trust, that | shall
y WIN the hope, that, before many gener.
s r''e"A Shali have passed away. he will shine
~ IN noonllde majesty. 1t is all uncer-
Ia Yet | will hope.
q as reader will remark, that | have Civ
II. opinioh, rather made no guess, as to
"a 1b'a OF our own political existence.
C,s q 'i'',ie faith in such conjectures.
], 'o'osisht IN polilicks, as in the wealth
n,.a'I reach short distance. Let US not
shor,. ,ne suosersion OF our state /; lest We
su ussert our posts to fulfil il.
METELLUS
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