The Portland gazette., 1819-03-30

as though no serious opposition was in a..
they had only nominated certain cand;da,a' 'athded,
material "ho-tor the mere sake of f,r,s ~ was /
the old flock together And there : -" snd kseus
shrewJness IN this idea. Ii is novel ''sly 81
sure. And il might be difficult at opce j 'aen al
desgn.-For who could dream Of na,,.. see through
nest, that put up its most ordinary AMI ~, oeng p !
individuals as candidates for public Office !; osnoaie
to the best and pures members Of socs,a :" opposi
might seem at first blush like giving Is R;a. Nrea
ernor and the old Serpent for Lieut. Cove a-'s orC.
most ordinary men may have power IL da;n nut
OF which those OF the most natural malign;, @sea
some measure disarmed by their mere jnf,gg, may
be remembered, that BENJAMIN w CRopr,f i
one OF the putative parents Of The GERRym.xnra
As TO the qualifications aud pretenxio,. I,
CRowNINsHTELD Tor the Office of Governor H. -
this state are under no necessity nor are tbo
ged to 60 into any kind Of consideration NJ M ~ .
general government has settled that matter -
come regular Judgment. A board of Cor..' - uas
was created to assist him as Secretary Of tbe ~.
was not abolished even after the peace. vi
extraordinary retlg did not remops the olisc,;
incapacity. 1t was openly avowed as rs.sa. 's
voting TO raise the Salaries Of the Secretaries : y
that has salary must be raised with the resi- IVA
difficulty he at last induced TO accept he a S's
and most 1Oooing invitations given him 10 resor -
this view to afford him convenient opporun1v !
upon has lGureS, he was put up for Governor o az, s.
last year. This broad hint was finally taken III i
we have him again oaer red for Governor l,ss.,'4 =
were obliged to put him up last year. Ills .lea,.
merits are undoubtedly the same this year they cers
But they have been weighed in the national b,.0.s
found wanting. So low was his reputation ~, y
King who had held on through all weathers. ppds, +
ter, Varnum, Gray aud Dearborn, positively reG,.,9
play second fiddle any longer; and would neither -
10 stand with him nor serve under him. The demosM
doctored up the difficulty as well as they could = i.
notice. And this year they can get nobody Bat n
TUs. Their SHIELD is certainly about equal a. Il.
Crown,
For one, fellow citizens, do not like this Dian
ing obliged to support the cast of satrops Of the admin
tration. When democrat is good for nothing any ~
at Washington, they then seem to think be i =
enough for Governor of Massachusetts Apy ad fs
they think will answer for They Grst squeeze II
aage and give Us the pulp and peeiag or If it bauua
TO be bad they condescend to hro 1t 10 rs syials
taking US apparently TO be as greedy and indiscuias
in our tastes and appetite as Peter Piadar's
s Monkey vile-whose tooth inglorious grappIes
Now with .4nanas-now with rotten agplssn
Since the war the government seems to baye ound
difficult to provide for all the clamorous pensioDers op
its patronage without returning part Of them upon
old states. Accordingly they first gave Us one of Ii.
broken down Generals, and they would now obb Us
with one of their YelioOv Admirdls First we bad use
TOBY, and now we have 60; Commodore TRVssia
There is however this difference between the cas
The first was the setting spendouF OF The glorious God
War, with the +" excess Of brightness" somewhat
Sctred, TO be sure, by the clouds of adversely and d
some possible eclipse from envy-besdes being bodaa
able to certain announcement and uncomfortable reaps
but still retaining something of the original archange
while the latter hever as.day thing but what moasy
the administration made him How be has GOT The na
mon is of little consequence to u.s. Without doubl /
all his own now, Prvateering we admit, was Aonoal
he 10 the revolution and might have been jusjfads
war. AS for The administration they found they co
make neaing Of him 10 any purpose-and so after tYi
a long while TO cut he painter they finally set tm aa1
They cleared him out, take it for granted, under
old coGSting lao for the Districts of Massachusetts
Maine. Hereafter we hope these g0Ueramsnt sklqp
will be at liberty to land and enter any where betve
here and Georgia. As were divided into mlltoTy
rlctS the government seemed to have some rgn to se
US Gen DEARBoRN, for Governor-though The lord
liver US from Gen. JACKSON, who would not permit
Executive OF a State even to issue an order within
military dtUiS0a-But as all the whole Atlantic sea GO
of the United States is now thrown into one maritime
trlct, it seems to me though the government have
right to make GREENWICH HosPrTAL Of this Comm
wealth for the 1Ohoie Union. Timber that is not 80
enough tor serenity four, is not fl for af7gdfe Aaa
UNCLE SAM will have harbour enough for his PoRT
MTRALs hereafter, and seaToom into the bargain ie'
spare tor the future making SHEER HULK OF o,r,
OLD MASSACHUSETTS,
Douoar Ahood