Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1817-04-01

IN 10 hOfscuFeu btih WIN hs5h eouiN~'
,Efh ID the estimation Of Washington was
Il Il military merit of the man, whom Gov
hrooq selected as Adiutant General 10 the
i. konmander in Chief and the ability, and
! helity. with which he discharged the duties
\ II that Office are fresh HI the recollection OF
4 ~ neople of this state Suffice il TO say that
] &. conduct was most approved where II was
Z IS understood and that the whole credit oil
I z execution Of those MEASURES OF DEFENCE,
VI rhich ne gere indebted for oar security at
/ lat critical and poreatoss period belonged TO
+ Grs Brooks.
n such was the character and such were the
y epices of the man, who upon the retirement
Ii STsoNo. was selected with universal appro-
Sbation as his successor The experience OF
one year, in which be has performed the
'@funciions OF that high anu important station,
has shown that The expectations entertained
, y hi him have not been disappointed, and he
- proved TO be abunIauty adequate to the ex-
.ecation Of the Office to which he va; elected.
TIE purity, with which he has passed through
Il he duties of that period, has been without
spot. The integrity with which be has adj
.ninisered the executive department OF the
I government during that term has not found
single assaiIant-And the moderate, impartial
and patriotic course of policy which he has
3 pursued in his official proceedings, has recon-
/ Inended him to the people OF Massachusetts,
/ for continuance of their confidence with that
moral eloguence, which public vtrtue ever finds
II difficult TO resist, and public justice knows
how TO reward. more popular chief mag
istraie---and il is a credit to the Safe TO say
it,--bas never presided over this common
wealth .-Again he is presented 10 the cleo
tors Of Massachusetts, as a candidate for their
suffrages .--And ours is happily an easy and
grateful Office. I've have not our candidate
10 defend against the nldiscr1mlaate censure
pffricnds and foes. We have not TO go back
to the revolution to appea! from the judgment
Of the present age, and prove that g he 1oas
brave such day" We are not obliged to
rob the brows OF Gen. Dearborn of laufels
TO wreathe around the reputation Of Brooks
We have no classical story to tell how the in
trgues of Hanno arrested the arms Of our Han
nibal and saved the Canadas from the yoke OF
the modern Carthage--nor Of Belisarius, ban
ished by ingratitude and pleading his injuries
against his sovereign--We tell no tale of ''hnar-
breadth escapes and wonderous perls. We
do not proclaim that our hero was safely OIL
board the commodore's ship, while Gen. Pike
was capturing Little York, nor boastfully ex-
hbit the scalp and mace which he bore off as
trophies of his triumph. He never marched
into Canada and then--morched out again.
He did not devote Sackett's harbour to des-
tructien He did not allow the enemy to re-
tire unmolested from Fort George except by
Lewis, whose only object seems to have been
20 secure the retreat OF his own commander =
He did not detach Chandler TO be kidnapped
IN tte dark, nor Berstler to be cut off in the
dag time--the only fate for which he was fit
In fine, he was never placed on the list OF
YelIozO .4dmirals by envy or intfigue-rated
as Har5owr admiral nor reduced to a race
We care no more for Armstrong or Madison
than we do for Dearborn. Suffice it for US
that Dearborn, did not preserve the confidence
of WAsHrEGToN, which Brooks never forfeited
that the former has been the uniform advo-
cafe and agent Of that policy which has near
ly proved the ruin of Massachusetts, as it has
been the bane ofthe whole country that he
has been the inyariable opponent Of the equal,
upright and truly republican course traced
out and pursued by Bowdoin, Hancock, Adj
ANS, Sumner, Sullivan, Gore, Strong and
Brooks and in ambtious emulation of the
reign of violence and terror under Lincoln and
Gerry, he seeks to introduce spirit of faction
into our public institutions and exercise pow
er for the benefit OF party.
We do not desire 10 interfere between Gen.
Dearborn and the general administration. 1t
is concern, in which federalists cannot posi-
bly, have any interest, and which has no rela-
ton TO Massachusetts. But if the question is
imprndently forced upon US by his friends,
aud they persist in theirappeal TO US from the
sentence OF the administration ;--ifthe trial is
10 take place on the first Monday of.4pqI and
the result 10 be declared onthe teurtkW ednesdGy
Ct .NGy,the electors of Massachusetts, in Justice
to themselves, have nothing to do but 10 confirm
fhe decision Of the regular national authorities
We are urged by our adyersaries to har-
naonfze in our election of state officers, with the
national administration. What harmony it will
produce with The general government TO elect
tor our governor, one its discarded support
erss who was pronounced unfit for service by
ihewar department, --recalled from his com
nand BY the president, rejected as Secreta-
~ Of War by The Senate-the nomination
never repeated like Galatians and Pinkney's-
and finally disbanded with the superfluous lum.
Der OF The anny-is an originality which it is
Tor the ingenuity and consistency Of our OPP
Ponents 10 erplula, For ourselves, however,
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