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

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acknowledgements their own evidence is
fei in order before the public |? It will
clearly refute itielf without any addition
al aid whatever From their pamphlet
ftatement of DiTI,ioo,I5 expenditure,
it has dwindlcd down, through flame
and the computations of confidence. to
the Gray convention itatemcnt of y 81.
84s,-o in items and the Dioo, 900 is
lueged in, in round numbers by way of
favo to the memorial One fet of lead.
ers give you one fun, to day, another
fet exhibit a different FUN tomorrow.
they throw figures together precifeiy
according to their respective talents FOR
gueDng and the indulgence of confidence,
where any remains.
Their pamphlet was the firft and
the hardeit work of all. Next comes
the memorial reducing the fun of ex.
penditure more than eleven thouland
dollars. and leaving it but the modcf
fun Of DIoo 900, next the Alfred con-
vention in (upport OF the :" memorial
mex the Gray convention virtually giving
all the former the lie, by working down
Names contribution to Do4 $3.50 in
items and leaving the ref to be made out
in funds and itocks at random, and fh.
lat is jf as deltifute q truth a, any Of
the former. Now Let the reader compare
the affertions OF the feparation writers and
advocates one with another, and he will
find them proving each other TO be delti.
tutc OF truth, jutt as fully as their oppo
nents and Official documents prove them
to be 10. lheie advocates have in reality
as little regard FOX the reputation of each
other as they have for truth or the pub ic
good every document that comes from
these raving drforganizers, eontradiots
fome one that has preceded or follows
it. AS a plain specimen in point, take
the letter in the argus lgned Tudab Lana
P,sIidenf, and you there find the ba.k TAX
!. IN Maine to be DI7soo. The Gray
leaders in the fame paper have got it
: DI4,7oo, making more than I3ooo diff
ference in cafe that admits OF DO mis-.
take, being ietiIed by law, and yet tbsse
)ams are gium in the Jane paper BY The
same denomination Of arrogant spectators
as TAR Hatcmenfs FIR the public to confde
N, and neither Of them is entitled to conf
dence because neither is correct. VIVA,
iovereign CONTEMPT the managers of the
Argus have for all who con6de in the
veracl'y oft, and what fovereign con-
temPt the nan of seraclty mutt have for
tbofc managers
4 1t the Argus men had committed for
gerry ard made Js.dab Dana presidsat, a.
gree with Nicholas Emery presi.!ens and
this might haze been done by altering
the figures of either only d 600, il,
would at lcait have rendered the refpec
tive addreilea hgned by them, confident
IN error, and IN that cafe they would
have been wi,nenes for each other but
now they as completely dearoy each 9th
ers verao'ty as an antagoniI could have
done rnfrea; the reader to look at
the different Placements they have fien. d,
and when he has taken his choice, which
ne will acknowledge to be erroneous. |
will then prove the other to be 70. Blu,
for the preient let one againif the 9th.
er, and fay mott explicitly that neither
is to be believed.
In various inaances the Gray leaders
have attempted to get up The reputation
of their "PamphIet" that mott " iesrits
ical" Of all competitions on the fubiest !;
they have uttered forth anew the allega
ton tia: ID 5000 would pay the leeina
ture Of the new lta,e, dogma which is
TOO foolifh TO be an(wered. Indeed ibis
Gray addrefs abounds in the fentimsnts
of the pamphlet, as the Alfred addrefs
did in thofc Of the memorial, each fes
endeavouring to fuPport their own de-
formed ban'ling by noife and bravado
Some few of the mott knocking fa;le.
hoods in the pamphlet are omitted, it is
true. and even virtually refuted by the
Gay addrefs, il one fabrication can with
propricty be laid TO refute another. But
numerous others are admitted with the
mark of the beait on their forehead take
the following 'om Of about Doc 900
that aue ne7v actually pay in cab, not more
than D.2o,coo eUer rstarns," thus ma
king our public agents from Maine fuch