Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1817-10-07
FoR THE GAZETTE.
6 Union of Parties"

edneSS OF The cause IN winch late writer IN
the Argus has volunteered his services, he has
himself, by the shifts to which he has been
driven, furnished us with convincing proof
1T. That our shots have told, we are well
convinced that they have struck at the prop
err objects, we are certain for, TO use the sub
lime and metaphorIcal expression OF an emf
nent statesman and civilian, g zge kao10 them
by their tftttering." W.
The article, however, TO which we alude,
is written in more modest style, and assumes
more moderate tone, than that which called
forth reply 10 a late Gazette, and in which q
series of uuGuestionable and notorious facts
were stated, and from which the farest and
the most warrantable conclusions were drawn.
Of these unwelcome and unpalatable truths,
he has not taken the smallest notice, which
tend in SO considerable degree to criminate
the party OF which he is a member. tie has
not attempted to validate their business or
their correctness. He has not attempted to
prove that the leaders of the nov democratick
party were the authors and the fomenters of
political dIsnnion in our country, and that,
that party owes its very existence TO its oppo-
sitiou to the measures of the administrations OF
Washington and Adams. Facts warrant the
belief, that had the former remained at the
helm Of state from 1897 to 1901, this party
would have been as eager to supersede him
by Mr. Jefferson, as TO place that gentleman
in the chair OF state in the room OF the latter.
OF the opposition to Mr.. jays treaty, inre
ference 10 which Virginia paper declared.
that if ratified by government, that patriolick
et,.o r,,xht ~ eacado from fLo t,niC,, and that
10000 free and independent citizens were
ready to rise at a moments warning, to effect
such an object, and bestowed on the venera-
bic nego.iator an epthet we will not soil our
paper by transcribing, nor wish the Gazette
TO be disgraced by inserting, he passes by un-
noticed. He has not ventured to prove that
MI. Gallatn was not as deeply concerned in
tomenting the Instruction at Pittsburgh, as
Daniel Shays in exciting that OF 1885 in Mas
sachusetts. Recolecting, probably, the fate
of the affair of Young and Minis, he has not
even accused US of eliminating Mr. Jefferson.
Hence we may fairly conclude, he considers
the conduct Of bis party during those periods.
wholly uhjustifable, and the characters of its
leaders wholly indefensible. Not sentence
has he advanced to prove that a jacobin club
was not established il Boston, and one of a
similar character, in Portland, for the express
purpose, as the compact OF that formed in the
former place, elegantly declared, of pulling
down the federal government" He has, in
deed, accused some of the most distinguished
leaders OF the federal party, with having been
monarchists in principle. A similar accusa-
ton was formerly alledged against General
hat tbnr
enjoyed his confidence and favour, and our
modern self-styled republicans and erciusive
patriots, were denounced by him as the pest
Of me country" After hearing these fine cpl
tEiets bestowed on almost every patriot Of the
revolution, whose integrity led him to support
the administration of Washington, and oppose
that OF Jefferson, what credit is to be attached
10 these absurd and nonsensical declarations
The constitution OF the u. 5 is the work OF
federalists. Is il rnonarchical or aristocraticai
10 The principles il contains, or in the spirit
which il brealhes When we reflect that the
democratck party owes It's very existence TO
the opposition made to that glorious palladium
OF our Liberties and rights, might we not, witl
far greater propriety, throw these epitheis
back into the teeth Of our political adversaries
and opponents
Is il not, moreover, notorious, that wher
ever democracy lifts its head in triumph, IN
this country, the principles of civil and ration
al liberty are less understood, and monster
Infinitely more hideous, than even tlmaea
monarchy, or aristocracy resides? Virginia
and Georgia are the abodes OF this modern re-
publicsausm, and does Grand Turk, does an
Emperor Of Morocco, reign with more arbi-
trary = despotick sway than these loucrs " i'6-
ertg aud equality, these leueliers Ct al disilae-
tons, who to use the words OF DR.. Johnson,
: are desirsus ofiereiling ail dossa 10 them, out
none uP % them" upon their respective plan.
latpns ! A southern driver, 10 use the sisnlie
OF poet OF our own country, wieids IN one
hand horsewhip, and The Rights q .han IN
the other. Admirable consistency no"
hneiy do practices and professions jingle To-
geiher! Must not this writer, himself, see,
with doubts perplex'd,
This shameful c5nncnt on sbe glorious text s.