The Portland gazette., 1819-02-02

Commonwealth on the resolutions proposed by
the Hoo. Mr.. King TO be added to a report made
10 the Senate relative the claims f9r militia ser
vices whicl outions declare that the President
Of tue United States has power TO call out the nil
I.ta or execute the laws, Suppress insurrections
ani repel nvasions, that il belongs exclusively 10
him tp determine when they are ueeded for these
purposes and that il is the duty of the governor TO
obey all such req'lisitions anl forthwith to order
out the militia called 70 land to place thelu under
the command of the officer officers designated by
the President, the mover took occasion To say and
repeat. that he had been az Washington that he
had bad conversation with men in office there
which perhaps. il woCld not be proper for him to
repeat at that board-he would say however that
those with whom he had conversei, as well as he
himself of opinion that part at least of the
claim was rist, and would be granted, were it not
for the dangerous precedent il would furnish Mr.
Quincy in reply, said he could not see how the de-
ciaration our part, that this state had no au-
thority to do as il had done, which was the con-
struction he put upon the resolutions thereby ac-
knowledging ourselves that the claim was unjust
could have any beneficial effect i'm regard TO It's
being granted He had heard frequent intimations
from different quarters of the board that gentIe
men had been at Washington-what eeotieme,
had heard said at Washington'' and from the.
| Honorable mover that t.he had himself been ~
| Washington He mi sht have been there. Mr.. @
sad, he might have consulted the political deity of
| the day face TO face-Rut are we from that cir
| cumstance to regard him with the awe that we
] should Moses coming down from Mount Sinai
/ Does bis face beam with such brightness that we
cannot Look upon hia P Mr. q. was sorry that
he could not learn what had been said TO the Hon
! Gentleman there. He thought that if he had had
| any assurances that could be depended upon. he
might consistently reveal them He suspected the
| Hon. Gentleman had other views-He wished TO
/ make the esent state administration unpopular.
that he might be able to say to the people, 'sYou
| see they have done wrong--they have themselves
| acknowledged it-place me and my friends in
power and will get the noney--let Us bear rule.
and we will procure you a million of dolarsn
| But he believed they would ask the Hon. Gentle
man before they places him and bis friends in pow
er. what would be done with the money offer
they got il who would be the Governor. who
| the Secretary, who tie Treasurer ?--For his own
| part, wefe he TO choose he was as we'll satisfied
that the money in question thould remain whers il
| now i, az in the hauds of men who might be CAL
! led the hon. movers friendt who had formerly ru
led the staie-ReperiOry.
| We are happy in having it in our power to cor
rect error which occurred in our paper sever
| al weeks since with regard to the new and ele-
| CANT bridge at the s. w. Bend in Durham. though
we regret the spirit of elimination which is
| breathed in the following communication, as we
| cannot for moment indulge the thought that
/ our correspondent designed TO misrepresent
| MEssRs GJ sHIRLEYs,
j noticed in your Gazette ofth 18th ins,
some remarks on the Bridge over the An
droscoggin River at the w Bend be-
tween the towns Of Lisbon and Durham,
which are believed to be incorrect. Il IS
| there stated that the aforesaid bridge is up
wards of 500 feet in length, which assertion
is true, but il is not the whole truth for II
is 627 feet,-it is also stated that said bridge
is only 90 feet wide, which is not true, for
the width is 90 feet,-it is also stated that
il is very inconven;ent for teams meeting
on the Bridge TO pass. Now il is apprehfn
ded that the writer of the aforesaid notice
is much wider in his ideas than our common
country folks, for we have never yet expe-
rienced any inconvenience IN passing one
another with our widest carriages or sleds
loaded with the widest loads Of hay, they
never lay over II ieet in width. The wri-
ter intimates that much credit is due 10 Mr.
Hall, the builder Of said blidge, in which 7
think he is wholly correct, for it is piece
of Workmanship. which it is believed has
never been equalled in this Commonwealth,
neither for elegance, strength, durability or
the expedition with which it was executed
Il is built on a new model in imitation of
one lately erected in one of the Western
States, which has received the unqualified
appreciation OF the best architects and we
have no doubt it will stand the storms and
the freshets incident TO the Androscoggin
River Whatever might have been the
motives of the writer of said notice. we wish
not to discredit the Bridge at Lit,Ie River
Village, which will no doubt be convenient
to those who live near i.--but we are conf
dent the public will never be made to pass
on any road, way, or bridge, merely to graf
ify one two or three individuals, who reside !
on the same. a FARMER. /
N B. The distance from HallCwell TO
Portland by the Bend Bridge is by compu
tation only " miles, being less than the
other way by miles.