The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1821-08-21

PORTLAND, TUESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1921.

We have looked over the papers Of this week,
published in Maine, with considerable attention.
with view 70 ascertain public opinion, and the
degree OF excitement, which exists in different
parts OF the state, relative 10 the approaching
lection. People who live in this vicinity are 50
near the din Of politics. which j. roaring % yehe-
mently here, that they cannot imagine that their
fellow citizens in other counties are eRi0yinp-
more repose, or are more free from tie violence
OF the political tempest, than themselves. And
perhaps they NAV learn something new, when
we tell them, that they have tile happiness ofre-
tanning at home, all or most Of the heat, which
their struggle is continually evolving, and that
what they perpctually emit and call light. be-
comes really palpabe, gross darkness before
It goes many miles from their laboratories An
other fact equally important, and which ought
10 be known i, that the contest is all % one SIDE
and that they who were warmly IN each others
embrace yesterday are pulling each others caps
to day-that Democrats enjoy the felicity ofhav-
ing no rival in their controvcrsy-th they have
the whole sport to themselves
We could not but think Us we were meditat-
ing upon the qInescent state ofpublic feeling at
distance, of the mortified feelings OF those at
home, who are working themselves into rage,
=" the very whiriwind ofpasson," when they OBJ
serve II fall SO harmlessly upon tat" far hill coun-
try"
Ii is however gratifying reflection, that the
mass OF our population is not made of that infam-
mable stuff, which eveTV spark may hinale---
which every demaGogue may blow into a flame.
And that while the names ofParris or Wingate,
Of John Holmes or Ashur Ware, produce as ii
were an electric effect upon every audience.at
every corner of our streets or in every BARRIERS
shop; the farmer pursues his honest lnbour the
plough-boy joys at his plough-taiI, and the COW
boy . whistles DER the lea" unconscious Of their
balefu inluence,or perhaps even ofthe existence
ofthe men.
We asked an honest farmer the other day
not the Farmer that writes in the Keunebunk
paper nor his Pitiko, what was the state OF poll
tics in bis part Of the country Why" SAL e,
{" hadn't heard much about it till got down
70 town, since then, two or three men have been
to talk with me, that would never have any thing
to say TO me before, about this man and the other;
men indeed, that knew nothing and cared moth
ing OF did not understand the meaning Of an
their poEteness at first, said he, but afterwards
| supposed that they had some particular object
70 accomplish, and that when they had gratihed
Their wishes by my means, might drive my team
along ever So many times, without the slightest
notice being taken Of 8ly honest friend from the
country" But" he observed, Ftold them
plump that was a federal, and didn't know eth
er Judge p. or Gen. W. in this business, hutifI
voted for any body il would be for EzEKIEL
WHITMAN" This is the substance of the old FIR
mer's conversation, and il struck rs more sensi-
bly, than any thing we had heard on the subject
The storm IN truth spends its fury here among
rs, ont 1t Is like the mimic storm PLAYED OF upon
the stage, and though it looks dismaIly there fcr
the time, and the thunder echoing from the hol-
low Kettle sounds queerlv, yet it's all fair wealth
cr IN the boxes, and il u only those who enact
the tragedy, that feel that it is storm at all
The green curtain will soou drop and At the ca
tastroPhe Of tie election when the brief excite
ment shall have passed away, the sock and bus-
kin viii be laid aside, and the busy actors in the
scene, viii return 70 the common business NY life:
and those, to whom tie whole state seemed but
an arena for the display of their ingenuity and
WIT or coed broad saddle upon which they
might ride comfortably, will marvel at this Ill
mlnlshed proportions, or at the very hard gait
o. the sturdy nag.
handsome pubic dinner WIS riven on
Thursday last to Mr.. King, late Governor of the
state, az Augusta, bv the citizens oF that and the
adjacent towns. The Hon. Judge Cony pref
ded, assisted by Joshua Gage and John Davis.
hsqrs- The following among other toasts were
crank on the occasion
T0ASTS.
TFs PreS6sHf gffhe Urirsl Stare
f1s STATE J 1Tl fR and lTa5sa rI5eff-r orr IVA closely
uh'1ej my they always eh-rsh towards racr oher he
o,t friendly sent imens. and regard each Others sfre
VII most generous symratha.
MAY very Magistrate st4-- entertain the rl-rr-d
Seh,iHe ~vow and adopt the avr. mons tptry rh.r
ne III 6e governor o. the SKATE and nor Of pr-V
knst!edge end Egra!ify-T best sntidofr gsinsf -
ioal and religious ircept ION 's go
fhe aH ~ ~ the Stafel-Mgy III prove ~ uSrel 40 REP
ar y srvesr. ' S-"'"'ef sc =
"a gI1fHs may Religion have p5us and tear-eI ,S--rs
accomplished amt rrdte schuI .rs iurisfrlierce
and abs Judges and government wise ana parta
ASr1eHif1e CoHVsercs aES Ian fr-f-s5-he lptinars
sores o' permanent wealth. and nrrSn rirr.
he III IVORY n hs iiibrisuS B-4SHT-CTOE-Our cour-
uaodS ct civil and military ps rfecrioo
OAr EeNf GVsN7--et him recolect thar supererrinen.