The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1818-05-19
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Until these questions are decided, the abuse
which has been so necessarily heaped upon that
party ought to be viewed IN the light of vague
and nonsensical defamation, unfounded and un-
Just calumnies, like the charges Of treason and
rebellion against our revolutionary patriots, like
the fnlminations of despot against every resis-
lance to his encroachments upon the rights and
liberties of mankind, and treated accordingly.
We are not to yield the characters of SO many Of
our most useful and respectable citizens, whose
interests are. certainly enterwoven with those of
their country, who had ereryssling to lose by her
ruin, many of whom eVinced tie most incorrupti-
bic patriotism the most mistaken integrity in our
revolutionary contest, during period which tri-
ed mems souls many of whose bosoms are COW
cred with scar 5 received in aiding to accomplish
her independence, who resisted, with a noble
disdain. every attempt to withdraw them from
their duty and allegiance we are not to yield
the characters Of such persons, to the accusations
ofmen, many Of WHOM are destitute Of property,
ofreputation, Of every qualification requisite to
entitle them to our confidence and credit men,
the general department ofwhose lives has evinc-
ed them, as having no other object in view than
the qualification of their ararice their ambi-
ton many of whom are adventures from other
countries, by leaving which they escaped the
punishment due to their crimes men, who have
nothing more to attach them to this country, than
have horde of wandering Tartars TO aeparticu-
lar spot, but as it furnishes the latter with the
means of feeding the focks by which they are
supported, and which they are ready to leave, as
soon as this temporary object is effected, 1t is,
certainly, an undeniable fact, that inconsider-
able portion Of the denouncers Of the federal par
y are persons Of the latter description, that they
are generally composed Of the most worthless,
dissolute, and abandoned characters in the com :
munity that, in the opposition to the measures
of the two last administrations, was enlisted the
greater portion Of the wealth, talent, and respec-
liability ofthe country. This fact, were there no
other, would be sufficient to repel the calumnies
which have been advanced against them. 1t
would be absurd to suppose that men, whose in
terests were engrafted with the welfare oftheir
country, should unite in conspiracy to effect her
ruin and disgrace, in which they consequently
would become involved. 1t is also moral inn
possibility that the inhabitants of the western
country, who, as it has been justly observed,
scarcely know sailor from salamander, and
VINO see the about as often as they do the 9TH
or, should have been more solicitous for the well
fare OF the hardy and industrious seamen Of New
England than their brethren and friends in that
part of the country to which they belong. It's.
besides, remarkable that the restrictive neasnras
on our commerce, met with the APPRECIATION Of
parts ofthe country whose interest. il thew nos.
sessed any interest at all, in commerce. was COM
paratiyely trifing, when compared with that Of
New-England, whose whole dependence for SUBJ
sstence rested upon it, and where those meas
ures were almost universally and unanimously
dsapproyed and Condemned. The almost sole
propretors of our shipping were nearly ruined by
this ohcious interference in their affairs Of narts
OF the country, which 50 far from suffering il COM
mon, with this section, rather prospered by our
misfortunes, by Withdrawing from us no incons;d-
cradle portion Of four population ON account Of the
enbarrassments, which prevailed in part of the
country SO Immediately dependent on the COM
nercial prosperity, and SO injured by commercial
restrictions, as the New England states.