The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1823-01-07

From the Philadelphia Union

From the Philadelphia Union.
The fact that Federal principles triumph
gloriously, while Federal men are grossly re-
vlled and scandalously prosecuted, IS certain
" entitled 10 attention. Alexander Hamilton
bImself, il ne were living, could hardly desire
more ardent attachment 10 the Federal con
siiution, than at present exists in the United
Safes. And this attachment is almost univer-
sal for we believe that the outcry raised abou
the judiciary, is conf led to few noisy poll
tlciaus 10 certain districts, who will be obliged
10 change their tone as soon as the tendency
Of their opposition is discovered. The Ameri
can people are firmly attached 10 a political
system, in which the sovereignty restless il
the people, local jurisdiction il vested IN
the state governments, and a general ia The
national. Defects, they may acknowledge
remain TO be remedied in the system. (it new
er was pretended that il was perfect, yet The
system itself they warmly approve. and are
I
hand, or dissolution Of the Union on the
other.
II was TO establish this system that The Fed
eral Republican party was formed it was from
their devotion TO il that thew took their distinc
tive arrellstion, it was endeayorine to fix il
on firm foundation that they laboured. and
il was in accomplishing this object that they
suffered. Whatever merit their opponents
may ascribe 10 themselves for administering
the government, il must yield to that Of hose
who established il. Whatever faults the Fed
ers party may have committed while ia pow
er, The merits THE Federal constitution atone
for them all. To establish a new and un'ri-
ed system Of government in country, the
population Of which had moi recovered from
the evils Of civil war, tender laws, and pa
per money, was no common undertaking and
if he opposite party should remain 10 power
twenty years longer thy will never do any
thing equally mertorious, unless they di-play
more energy than they have hitherto proved
themselves TO possess.
And yet all those men who were most active
IN promoting this great and glorious work
must he condemned, and all who adhered TO
them be prescribed. The very name Of Fed
eralist is considered by many, an indeible
stigma, and the politicians Of The opposite
party, in their family quarreIs, apply it TO one
another with the same intention, and 10
certain extent with The same effect. tha; The
polemics Of older time used TO brand their
opponents with the ePIlhet Of hereIios.
The Federal Republicans, might be well
satisfied TO bear all this seproacb, as part of
| The cost of their triumph in establishing the
Federal Republican system of government
were il not that the spnit these revilings en-
gender, prevent The government from being
practically beneficial, and that the best form
Of government ayais but little, unless it he
well administered. The most able men are
kept out OF ofice merely because they are
Federalists, and the best measures are reject
ed because they are Federal.
j cannot lie so long. Either The dominant
party must be more rational, or the Federal
party will recover ts pristine vigor.
From he .4ibany Daily .4duertiser.