Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1816-04-30

more tnan utual, tor ther accommodfs
ton. If the coaitefs had to enter and
Gear out every trip at the cuitomshoufes,
matters of veifsls would have to leave
them aud go 10 or 20, or 80 miles to get
cleared, and in the mean time might and
frequently would lofe wind. If they
were ready to come from Bolton or any
other weltern port, after the cuitom.
houfe had been ihut, they mutt wait till
Office houts, and then there would be
frequently great number OF veilels wait.
ing to be Cleared out at the fame time.
Thus il is evident that the embarrail.
men. and lois to the coaiters would be
almoG iucalculablc. he consequences
OF il would be fslt rot only by tho!e
concerned IN an exteniive coating trade,
but by all engaged in building veiiels of
that hze, as well as by all who dea, in
timber, wood and lumber of any kind.
Indeed, as the coating trade furniihes
great part of the money, which comes to
Maine, al withia comfortable diitance
Of the fea, bays aud nsvlgaole rivers,
I WVUla lCNi tiiE ChNSto VI thN Siubotsoh
ments of 'he coating trade.
We forbear to dwell upon the in.
created expenfes at the cultcm houles,
becaufc although the money actually ex-
pended in this way would be very great
fun, it would be much lefs felt, than the
additional trouble, delay, & confequntly
lofs We know that some Of the advo-
Gates. of feparation, have entertained a
hope that government would alter the
general law in our favour, but we do not
believe they would. if they could except
iuch an exteGGve trade. ESPECIALLY in ia.
YOUR of thofe, who had voluntarily sub.
je6ted themfclvcs to the Inconvenience |;
but we are perfuaded no exception can
be made in our favour, fer the Conititu.
ton Art 1T fec 9th, expressly ordains
".hat no preference fhall be given by
any regua ion of seommerce or revenue
10 the ports of one Aate over another.
1t mutt be evident that fuch an excep-
ton given y Maine would be an impor-
tan, preference over all the atlantic atates.
II has been faid that the people of Rhode
Iland are permitted to 30 to Long Isl
and by coating licenie. If this be the
cafe it does not at all compare with the
cafe in queeion, becau(c Long Illand
lying directly oppohte to Rhode Iiland,
and near the iilands in the bay, without
an intervening fate, may be conlidered
as exempted from the conftitutiopai
rule. 1t is well underfood and indeed
has been fometimes avowed that the
coating trade will be in great measure
facrihced by making new fate. And
to what is the facrifiee t. be made ITO
the ambition or intere!ts of few indis
| viduals. We do not and we cannon be-
lieve that people of Maine wiz 'acrihce
Tome of their dearea intereits voluntarily,
1890 ~-s.--~ sssat Ifi~ Will uIis-
understand this fubjea. We are convin-
ced that when it ihall be well conlidcred,
they will be prepared to meet the ques-
ton as they over have. And we cannot
but hope that our brethren who live more
remote from navigation, will refufe to
adopt meaiures 70 injurious to themielvcs.
as we'll as 10 the intere ssof their fellow
citizens Your Committee find tina, this
fubjeet has been brought before the PEG.
pie three times within about twenty
years, and has always received decided
negative by very great majority. We
do not conceive that any new arguments
can be adduced in favour Of the meafure,
but on the con,rary,that the accommoda
ton in the establishments & arrans ements
OF courts, and the great increaie of the
coating trade, the meafures adopted to
lettle the wild lands, and the state of our
prefent taxes, are among the important
additional reafons why the people of
Maine ihould not with to be feparated.
Ii circumstances lhouid hereafter render
it expedient it may then be done, but
when once done, the people must fub-
NIT to all the evils which may grow out
of it, however they may feel them We
are fully periuaded that tine people gener
ally are well iatisfed with remaining
part of Mafachufet,s, nor do we confider
the Ggnatures which have been obtained
to printed petitions, circulated with in