Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1816-08-13

require hundred fuch heads as he wears
to underftand the fubject he writes about.
The addrefs delivered at the meeting, if
correct, is wholly above his comprehen-
fion if it were incorrect he has no braina
to thew wherein. But the addrefs carried
conviction of its truth to the mind of ev'
cry man Of understanding, and fuch were
the members of the convention. Ihofe
creatures that buzz in the Argus are evil
IDENTIFY without inteIlect-fo much the
better for the Argus : their filly falfe-
hoods have gained admittance there and
are as good truths and as well written as
the general run Of the fluff that appears
in that paper.
Mn. SPIRIEY.
The following communication was written for
the Eafleru Argus; bu; a. the Editor refuses to
you vii! oblige your SC. A. y.
MR.. DOUGLASS,
The fole inducemcnt that can con-
ceive of for the diyiGon of country uni
ted under one government continued
like ours into two feparate governments
are incompatibility of intereA or fuch
an extent of teritory as to render il inccn-
venient for the delegates of the people to
afemble in any one place for the purpofe
of legislation. To determine, then. the
propriety OF the fepara,ion of Maine, one
Of thefc facts mutt be proved 1t can be
Of no poiIibe ufc for thofe in favour of
Separation to urge againlt thcle who are
oppofed to it, that they are office bsders
which can be eaGly resor,ed BY the oppo-
fife epithet Of office /sekers. All this has
the tendency to inAame tie pailions Of
the people, 10 prejudice them, no: to con-
vince their Ieafon. | do not undertake
to fay which party has been moft culpa-
bic in this refpect. Blu, have no he
litation in aaerting, that the effects is
injurious to both. The frt thing to
be made evident to the people is, wheth.
err the interelt Of Maine and Ma1achu
fetts are 10 incompatible, that one body
OF men cannot legilate tor both, in the
limited purpoies 10 which fate legiflation
can be applied. For my part, ii any tuch
incompa.ibllity Of interef exits, am
ignorant of it l have heard indeed of
jealouiy of old Manachuletts sgainft
Name of her with to discourage the
growth of Maine; but l have always
conGdered the iuggeition in the fame
light as the fimilar fuggsition Of the fed
eralilts refpecting the jealousy of the
iouthern againit the northern states. I
have always conGdered both. as fugguss
lions which were originated merely TO
fubferse the purpofes of The party orisi
mating them. We are an integral part
Of MaOacbystts; the growth CT ons fart,
conduces TO the growth of the ofder.
Did any fuch jraloufy exit the fable of
the members and the belly which was
related by Menenius Agrippa to the pie
bains of Rome, to exemplify the folly of
dnlention between them and the patri-
Clans, would be itnctly applicable to ".
AS proof of that jaalouiy, the refufal
the utual grant Tor an academy at
bangor has been ini}anced in the pamph
.et entltled an appeal to the people Of
Maine. The writer of that pamphlet
ought to have itatsd, that the oppoli,ion
to that Academy originated in a repre-
tentative from town in the vicinity of
Bangor in which he was alto Imported
by other members f,om towns ia the vi
c,nlty and BY representative highly and
deiervedly respectable from town in the
weitsrn part Of Maine who now ranks
among the foremoA in the icale of thole
who are in favor of separation. The
TACT was, that neither local jealouiy, nor
party PREJUDICE, operated in'ths queftion.
The grant was oppofed on the truly re.
publican ground, that Academies have
the effect of diicou,aging good town
schools, and thereby conhning the benes
tit Of educatlon 20 the rich to the exclu-
non OF the poor and alto on the ground
OF there beng another Academy within
Tx miles Of the one psopofed which had
received grant OF half Townihip of
Land and was then laDguiihing for want
OF itudents. The motives tor oppoii:ion
reflect honour on the members op2o(iac
it. In like manner in the fame pamphlet,
as proof OF the jealoufy and iiliberality