The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1818-10-13

gathered lmperisha5le laurels, and raised
The character fthe Nation 10 an ensiable
height:
And these men were Federalists
Perry and M'Donougb, The heroes of
Erie and Champlain, also adorn the rolls OF
Federalism. Nor were the exploits OF Fed.
eralism confined TO the waves. We appeal
10 the democratic gentlemen who were in
the army, to say if there were not upon the
lines many federal officers, whose patriotism
end bravery shone forth with renewed
brightness from every trail
Let il be distinctly recollected that we
assume no exclusive merit. 10 our po-
litical opponents be cheeriully accorded all
the honors to which they are entitled. That
officer who at the moment of tremendous
explosion, which slew his general and
spread ruin around him, firmly rallied his
men, and led them on 10 the capture of
York, is Justly entitled to the chaplet of the
victor. The young officer who with new
troops charged and yanqulshed the veteran
battalions of an experienced commander,
deserves the laurel wreath. BE they worn
in ever blooming honor. 1t would be our
prise 10 contribute to their vcrdure.-No,
Move have no wish to rise on the ruins
of our opponents but it would be dishon
orable not to aspire to the station 10 which
our claims entite US. The station Of equal
confidence with our fellow cilizcns. A
restoration to equal rights participation
in public favor--an exemption from the
persecution which has too long prevailed,
striving to wither our just claims TO respect,
by insinuations, that we were enemies to
our country.
1t is time that party feuds, and party
names, in the manner they have existed
should cease to bear despotic sway in our
political concerns. The same ship has
borne INTO actionthe federplist and the dem
ocrat. The same regiment has numbered
among its besi and bravest, the federal and
the democratic soldier. One tent has held
them as inmates" In the day of alarm,
when Baltimore was Invaded and Philadel
phis threstened-they marched together TO
meet the danger :--often have they fought
and often have they bled, and gloriously
have they conquered together.
Why should the federafists at each ap-
preaching election be pointed as.with every
epithet of opprobrium, and be blasted with
the whitening insinua,ions of rejoicing in
the woes of their country, when oil The
weight ofeyidence, shews the cruelty and
futili.y of the charge.
Throughout the state of Pennsylvania
within the past year, nearly 400 Offices
have been distributed by the executive, and
by those immediately under his control,sn
there have not been, it is confidently believ-
ed, tour commissions issued 10 federalists.
They are,and have been for years, cautious.
ly and Systematically excluded from Office,
as If they were unworthy to share, excep.
in the public burdens. !.
In the councils of the nation, and in the
estimate of our sister states, Pennsylvania is
ranked as fourth or fifth in grade, IN point
OF intelligence andinfuence. Why is she
thus degraded Is she in truth inferior
Has she not men whose virtues and talents
would place herin the front ranks quail eith
New-York. Massachusetts, or Virginia I?
The affirmative Of these questions is
warranted by the stric,est trulh.-But our
policy has been degrading. Our party diff
ferences have led US to sacrifice our gra,
men-Osr factious controversies have led
us to consign our brightest ornaments to
the obscuriiy of private life--And to the
shame of Pennsylvania, such men as hb
ner Lacock have been suffered to appear as
her representative in the Senate Of the u
MON
True il is,that from an Union OF Indspeh
dent men of both parties, paliia, changr