Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1816-08-27

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may treat them asrrrational beings with.
out the Ieat danger tina, their reafon will
operate againlt fuch unbounded AFRO.
gance and repel it with manly iniigna.
ton. BUT there is good senie enough
in the people to diitinguifh between a
herd of office ,feekers who flop at no
means TO deceive, and the fober aid ju
dicious men who deipiie taltehood and
dread revolution. The PEOPLE.
TO" JUNiUS."
SIR,
In the lalf Argus, which I have not
been able to obtain before the prefent
hour. you have been pleased to pay fome
little attention tc the author of commu-
uication 6gned {" truth" and publiih-
cd in the Portland Gazette of Augua 9th
You lole your labor the writer of Truth
will no, cendefcend to competition with
YOU Truth is plain man, who itates
facts, and does not afpire to the ekgant
/dtiye, (more commonly known by anotn-
err and coarier name, (Which diltin-
guiihes the writings of " Junius" the fla
and 9 Junius" the /econd.
Your mere elegant epittle of July 3Il,
Gf do not miitake the date y contained
three charges againit the SHERIFF OF THE
COUNTY OF LINCOLN each Of them as
far from truth, as the commune alton
which exhibited them, is from the gen.
tlemanly, though cauitic fyle of the wri.
ter, whole name you have borrowed and
disgiaced. ] too am ''conGdersbly reliev.
ed to find, that" Junius' is not an in
Esbiiant of the County of Lincoln. His
ignorance OF events, which tranfpired
within thar county and we're known to
all its inhabitants, inconteltabiy proves
the fact.
The character, which you attempt to
trad &c. needs no advocate" The
fhahs OF malignity. though dipped in the
envenomed gall of ''Junius, fall harmless
at the feet Of the man. who, in your
own elegant language, has in military,
Legislative and executive capacity ridden
upon the ihouiders of the 10 welt, in
which grade You doubtless intend to in-
c!ude majority OF two Congregational
Dhtricts, who made him legislator !;
the officers ola regimenr,by whole votes
be was placed in military capacity, and
the Governor and Council, who gave him
his executive commiiIion.
To stail The character of a man, of
whom you are 10 ignorant, as NOT to
know, 7uHbm three years, the time of the
termination OF his military commifIion,
and to found charge upon the very fact
CT his reiignation OF It at a parficuLa, time;
rsqoired hardihood of nerve, aosaired
only by habituAl vill.iny contempt of
decency, attained only by continued aaof
citation with the compeers of &c Junius,"
and deltitution Of moral principles pro.
duced only by most intimate and pro-
,racted acquaintance with vice, in all her
varied coaumes
10 decide queltion of-public expedi.
eney, BY attempting to dearoy the repu
tation Of an antagoniit, was relerved for
the friends of Separation to endeavor to
effect it By the mott ungr bundled eaiums
MES and the bafett fallehoods againit his
character, was the TT task of Junius :"
10 make ahertions, (Which you dare net re-
peat to publith SANDERS. which you kave
Mt the courage to GUN to brandifh the
dagger u dctraction and conceal the
hand that frikes," fhall conifitute an
epitome Of your character To utter the
charge Of " peculation," and conceal
caP,if rom prosecution to accuie of cow
ardice, and Sasty ysfute your name to the
object of your libels, has lhaded the fame
of Junius with its lat .. dark int
The picture is yaurs Ii cannot be
misapplied. truth.
Aug. 40, 1915