The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1821-11-20


sequitur, but the implication i plain. In The IL,
Argus, finding that facts would not warrant h;s
round assertion, be travels back, and thus states
the first head of his discourse : We have saif
that the Gazette favored the cause ofGen. win.
rate To support this assertion, he makes
general appeal 70 the columns Of tins paper.
without adducing single fact, or Offering little
Of proof; then, after making a sweeping cbser
walton or two, and in such the gentleman is very
ready, whose object it is 20 produce doubt In w
mind which lie cannot convince, he disInisses the
Subjective do not conceive that We are called
upon, by his remarks, to rejoin any thing 4 VIA,
We have before said on this subject. But Al flis
is the last time we shall recur to this stale aeon
sation, will add that the support u this parcr
was given honestly, earnestly and exciusiyelv 4,
the election OF Mr.. WHITMAN, as Governor orths
state; and whether Gen. Wingate or Judge Par.
RS received benefit or 40 injury from il was
question which did not concern us, but was . col.
lateral consequence Of our pursuing a straigAs
forward course. The federal party adhered Ia
the cause eta federal candidate and because the
Secretary party gained but an inglorious yicto.
~ in consequence Of il, yet we are not 50 happT
as to perceive that it follows that we were eabs.
ted i'll the cause Of Gen. Wingate. In fact. the
editor of the Argus, in his last essay from the fee
bic manner IN which he argues this point, eyi
IDENTITY restates it to save appearances; he SAYS
1t again, because-he has said il before.
lie next undertakes to reply to some remarks
Of ours on the sudden change in his lanrnape and
manner towards The republicans who supported
the cause Of Gen. Ning4tc, after the late cleo
ton. Here the gentleman has a glorious feIi
for display, and we are treated with an allusion
| to the Hartford Convention, and some incidents
during the late war, with abuse OF the whole fed
! eral party and Gen. Wmgato; he talks about
Aaron Burr, legitimacy, and things in general.
but takes care not to deny that, to use his own
language, he u billing and cooling over" to his
party the very men in whose faces he SO rudelr
Hung the door when his hopes were high; and
| tins not because he relcnts that he treated then,
80 roughly, but because he now wants their sun
port. And finally he asks, with great exultatiep
does the editor Of the Gazette really think tb.+
republicans will bow down and become hewer,
OF wood and drawers Of water the mere nnder
servants and beasts OF burden to the dreps N
federalism !'!l
! Could we for moment suppose the astute ed
ltor Of the Argus serious when he proposed such
a ridcuIouS intarrooo torn, ,,o ,,-tI
sir, we really do not think that the republicans
VIII bow down to any thing but the majesty az
The Argus; and IS to their hewing wood. we
never had such an idea unless il was 10 brinr N
70 market. But it is matter Of wonder to us.
that the editor of the Argus should have yentur-
ed on this question, since lie finds SO MANY ~
publicans hanging about the State baccaoe.
wagon" and bowling down to men TO whom H.
interrogatory 50 happily refers, whom cbanqe
OF politics, and nothing else, has made It's con-
spicuons keepers.
The editor Of the Argus next touches npon the
remarks we made concerning bis treatmen, 81
Mr.. Whitney. We could not but be amazed
with the parade Of morality with which be no.
hceI the piece VIC published as an act Of iust;ce
70 that gentleman this produced marvellous
excitement an that editor, So that he beo,ne
quite regardless Of names and epithets. MANY og
which We should have supposed he would hard
~ have vcntured to use, for fear the publ;o
would make too direct an application Of them u
hmsei. The moral standard Of the Argus sei-
ther very high or very low its conductor Is
either above the commission ~ f,,,Its o -,
h'dAins Satisfaction Tor them But we are hu-
man, and may say homo sum, {. mill hnunas
ne dt'en'tDs Puto-" The casuistrv 81 tie AZ
gus may satisfy their own minds, but II eannot
convince ours-and We shall take tho Eheyt,
whenever we have inadvertently slipped intoe r-
rof' or unintentionally wounded the feelinrs ola
private individual, to cndeavor rcnaratiop "
The fault. regardless Of the sneers Or tba axyr,-
pie Of the Argus
we regret that we have been under sort u
necessity, Of occupying the attention Of Our
readers with what 50 nearly touches ourselves,
and we should not have done 4. were y ,o+ u.
attempt on the part Of the Argus to wound the
ioderai party through our SIDE. We now dismiss
the controversy, with conviction that tba ~.
clamation Of the editor of the Arms will moi
pass Tor argument, nor bis round and confident
assertion for proof