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

General Court elected the Hon JOSIAH
sTEBBINS, Of Alma, in the county Of Lin.
coin, Member OF the Hon Council, vice
,he Hon Mr. Head, who declined accept
ing seat al the board.
The Bill carry the late COMMERCIAL
TnE,rY INFO efect,which passed the House
AT Repre- sentatlves on the l2th inst. was re-
iectsd in The Senate on Frid,y last, by more
than TWO TO one, The National Intelligent
eer lamenls hat this collision of opinion mas
occu red be ween the two Houses and the
FEDERAL Rehubacan offers this consolation,
tina. :" the House mus: give way because
there is no help for IL"
Although the civilized world is HUH
ed 10 repo(e, it cannot be amiss nor un-
nro6rable 10 take a Retrospective view,
now and then, Of the tremendous tenn
pelts with which it had been agitated for
almcit the term Of whole GENERATION.
Twenty. fix years ago the people of
France experienced whit they termed
Political Regq7e, atisn; which was atten.
ded with Lamentations of the utmot
ioy no, only N France, but throughout
thefe Unied States 1t was a faihiona
bic maxim IN France, and here too, that,
q nation to be free needs only to 7oW it; not
conGdsring hat it is thoufand times ca
&c, conqge, hbe,ty, az the can't phrafe
was, than il is to prefervc it
The French having the will to be free,
put tnat will in execution. In the year
1880 they BURT the bands Of civil gov
ernment, and declared themtelves free
people. That year was filled by them
the first year of ibery and their gen.
era vaccinations and fhouts Of joy rent
the welkin.
o. he 2th Of Auguft 1872 the new
rulers Of France decreed, tha, to The date
of .ibe,fy, The dare Of Equality fhould be
added IN future in all pubic acts and
the decree ltielf was dated .'the Fourth
yeas of Liberty and the hrit year and
day of Equality"
What a iplendid fpectac.e hirty
millions OF people, not only all free, but
all equal The whole nation had fworn
eternal hatred to royalty. / her BODY
of mobiles they had defroyed or banilhed
All tiles were aboJiih.d all links were
leveled 1t was a. hat period that Con
dorcet-ihc greatef dreamer perhaps ~
on earth with he Jingle execution nt
his bo1om friend, the Philosopher Of
Monticello writing TO corIeipordent
abroad dated his letter from >e1v Heaven
ur,ng the reign Of Liberty and E
a. Try the blood If Frenchmea flowed
manifold more profufely than at any Tor
mer ri d If their history even under
the wa,it of theie monarchs The prlm
ard leek republican demagogues, plein
10 their habit, and diltinsuifh-d by no
title other than the general ti'le of CIT.
zsn,-made France bleed At every pore
The hapless French, finding, what al
ways holds true, thar tyranny is IN n >
fhape 70 deteffab|r and formidable, as
when i, is exerciied by muintude of ~
rants +; they fubmitt their deitioies to
aiingle d.fpot Fe, the icourge OF ma
lions, was mere efp ciaiy the fsourge #
Frenchmen Merely from his own g1at
inca,ion and aegral oizem MT, he drainea
France of her trrafure and blood. and
while Frenchmen generally telt and as
generally detected the Calling yeke OF thar
upltart depot, ,tey dut,t no, complain
They had 10: even the poo' conio
latlon Of u,,ering their g,ie.s TO one an
othtr they were compelled to praife
ano fattsr the man whom, OF all men
upon earth they na,ed he mott heartily
But then came the day in which they
were permitted to express openly the
feelings Of thei, hearts. And then it
was that Freuchmen, a. with one voice,
expreilcd their sbhorrence f multlforn
tyranny which hey h ID 70 long been un
der Then it vas that all France. freed
from long f,rie of mott horrible des
porifm in various fhapes refounded a.
gain with fhout ofjoy
The monitor, French democracy, that
tucked the blood of 70 many millions
and turned France into an Accldama, as
ftiAet The military dsspot, who fpor-
ted away the lives of 70 m my millions of
Frenchmen and filled Europe with blood