Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1816-01-30

| Boston answers tIS dtsCTlptIOh, ueHoe Neig
extensive and important coasting trade has lohs
been carried on between the District OF Name ahd
Boston. 1t mas also been extended 10 other ports
| 10 Massachusetts Proper, and the New-EnSiad
states. All this by our peculiarly fortunate local
| situation may be done, whilst Name is part oi
! massachusetts, under common coasting license
which is taken from the custon-house, once yeaIs
| ior very small sum; after which the soastef iS not
| compelled to visit oustom-house until Tue yea.
expires. The District vi Maine has almost mex
haustible resources for this trade for long time 10
| come, and our principal articles, lumber and cord
wood, must from the diminution OF those aft,cieh
III other parts OF the Country rapidiy increase 'i
,aiue. Dur commerce and eoasting trade are now
| hegiuning to revive after a long snmber.--ihs
ship owner employs the various ncch2aics connect-
| e with shippIns and there is also demand ior
tie various articles of wood used in the construc-
ton OF vessels. The farmer hGds the merchant
ready to receive hls surplus articles aud supply im
in turn the iumbernan and the wood-cut;er are
eployed, and the whole country, directly or indI-
| rectly, enjoys the advantages OF revNing Coll
merce.-1his Commerce, let II be remembered, re-
suits in great degree, from our Extensive coast
ing trade, favored il by our peculiar local Sit
ua ion part OF Mas achusetts Ii " aine were
| Il epdra,e state il would JOIN 10 no state in the
onion excepting New-Aampshire, which has but
one rort OF any consequences, and that not adapted
to the pui poses of our commerce. By the laws oi
Tue uned States a coastinS vessel. gong Ifom one
state to Another except II be an adjoining state,
must enter and clear out at the custom-house every
trip (as the coasters call it) both gong and com-
ing. ur sses must submit to tbs An going 10
Boston as much as if they boGad to Virginia.
IL has been calculated that, with present coast
Ing Trade the actual expense of money would be
thirty thousand doars year, but tins Would oe
next To nothing compared 10 the trouble, cost, de-
Jay ana dicnity OF going so oien and SO faf TO The
various eustom-houses, woGid be Gecessary.-
The consequence would be that extensive duur-
ishing Cosstiag trade and all the EMPLOY meuts and
profits connected tn it would be extremely dimin-
,sncd, aud in greai measure ruined. Connected
with this subject the stale OF credit existing be-
tween Jiaine and massachusetts Proper IL, VIII
moi be denied tndt young aud commercial country
may derive important advantages from liberal
aad easy credit il one possessed of more capital
5iaine has experienced these advantages from the
state Of their credit IN Boston aud other western
parts.-ii aiane were separate state, the dihcu-
y a1d expense of coliectins debts al such dis
taace, t9ge,her with .he uncertainty respecting
what laws might be made in the new stale would
| nearly annih.iate tle credit abdve referred 10. 1t
haa ueen said that Tor many years alter Ferm Jnt
became separate state its inhabitdnts Could not
CHI ain credit t. any considerable amount out of
that tate, and even this time, the credit OF those
who out oil this state upoh different foot
lFUui Ot thpst NbO ntntc,
gpyerued oy che same laws, and IL the constant
naDIt OF commercial intercourse.
Massachusetts is now great and powerful state,
lhe only one in the eastern section OF the Union-
IL has weiSht, and will have IT, whatever parry or
description o. men, may from time 10 time, govern
aion this State, but divide, and II becomes
! as nothing. suppose there should be proposition
to cut Virginia two states, large as 1t IS, aud
having none OF these coastns interests to regard
| ~, A nnt trrainu n h.a al
ibe same applies TO New \ ork, and to fennsyi-
| vania.-h hy do we not bear oil attempts 10 sH,de
those states They have too much regard To their
owu Interests.
Ii u well known that Massachusetts, Proper has
no interests distinct from those Of Name lbey
have the interests IN the uncultIvated lands III
te part OF the state, we have IN propor-
| 10 tue share which they hold in them, ana let
It be remembered that this land is public property,
and Old slassac husett is Interested IN them just as
iii the stale house. or any other pubic prop
ery. Here let il be observed that the longer we
continue connected with odd Massachusetts, the
greater viii be relative proportion OF tins and
| all other pubic property, because our increase OF
population IS greater iii proportion thah theirs.
Ii IS also worthy of remark, that IN process oi
time, the lumber and wood OF Maine Will be great
ly diminished, aud PROBABLY some place in Maine
viii have acquired sufficient capital tor that trade
but, at Preseat, there Is not sach place. Under
| exsiils circumstances, majority OF The people of
| Maine would, undoubtedly, prefer Boston to any
other Capital and considering thai .ie long travel
OF our memDers OF the Legislature is paid oui OF the
| State Treasury, IL cannot be thought burden on
,he people Of Maine that the Capital is remote from
some OF them
iEere was time when some good men favoured
separation in consequence of the great delays in
our supreme CourI-but since the changes as to
the modes of trial. and the addition OF Judges, JUS
,ice is promptly administered 10 Maine, ,as in any
part oil the state and every body is satisfied on
that head. On the whole, after hearing much said
upon the sub ect of separation, after reading much
OF what has been written respecting IL at different
times, and rejecting deliberately, the arguments
in favor of the measure amount to nothing conpar-
ed to those against ilt has not been thought ne
cessary to dwell upon ali the minor considerations,
| il IS suiicient that there strong and as many
| CONCEIVE altogether unanswerable Arguments a.
gainst tie measure. 1t is universally known that
Iane has long enjoyed perfect equality oirishts
and Of good government with the other part OF the
! etate, anu mas no sufficient reason To hazard
change OF to wish for a dissolution OF eonnexon
which has So long existed, and Is strengthened by
| 70 many strogg aud interesting ties. Notwith-
standing this there have al several times, been at
tempts made, 10 persuade the people of Maiae that
they labonr under such intulerahe grievances that
nothing bat a Separation can relieve them heir
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