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hat he wrote any thing but the Decline
md fall of the Roman Empire
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t-AdoSt AlOAu lcttci HUN IlOIs ChOCH
Lincoln, a Representative in Congress from
Maine, dated Washington, Dec. a, and
published in the Oxford, Maine, Observer.
Waving the further discussion of
this question and of other points not no
ticed, yet pertinent to it, will proceed
to-some general remarks, by which |
will, at more length, endeavor to show
the situation of the federal party as ex-
isting in New England, and perhaps al
so in the United States. This party.
purified by desertion and by misfortune,
had never in my opinion for twenty
years past and more, during which it
has been tried in its adversely, more
moral power than it now has. While
its adversaries, by the adoption of faith
less adherents, by the contamination uf
prosperity, and by the dormancy Of
public feeling, have become hetero
genous mass, and began TO walk proudly
in their power, the federalIsts, like all
minorities, have learned at last TO ap-
preciate their dependence on the peo-
pie, and the value of democratic inhu-
ence. Their adversarIes have record
ed their sins in large letters, and held
up the tablet to keep alive a just indig-
nation; but they have alleged that the
character of their transgressions was flu
gltive, that their errors were Temporal
ry, and that their motives and many of
their measures were such as experience
has approved, and that the war against
them is hostile to that great interest
which requires an equal and parental
regard from the government, wherever
talent and patriotism appear for its pat
ronage. Between these TWO parties du-
ring the administration of Jefferson and
Madison, there was great wall of sep
aratlon produced from the materials
which the peculiar state of the country
rendered abundant; but after Mr.. Mon
roe came into power, the barrier gradu-
ally crumbled away, and the spectre of
the past stood as its only guard. Rad-
Cal differences of opinion upon constitu-
tonal questions and new views of policy
raised different set of raIlying points,
and Cd the one side the federahsts were
seen retiring from their ancient posts,
and on the other, some of the republi-
cans were seen TO assume them; and
while the body guards of the dynasty of
President Adams were driven from their
holds, their conquerors, instead of des-
tToymg, have, in some instances, occu-
pied and established them; yet some
portions of the ancient parties still main
tain their ground, some have with
drawn into logged silence, some re-
moved into dign6ed retirement, and
some mingle actively In the politics of
the day. Mr.. Monroe must have seen
that the weight of talent, & the proper
ton OF virtue, of the federal party, was
worth something, & It's thought prob
able, that his tour was intended in part to
break down that odium which he might
have deemed in a degree unjust towards
its objects and unfortunate for the ma
ton. 1t is supposed that he Intended to
pave the way for the regress of the
honest and patriotic members of the
federal party to the national confidence,
and participation of the federal offices.
The republicans would not consent
but the time has arrived when they will
be obliged to yield; the spirit of toIera-
tIon, just OF unjust, polite or impolitlc.
has made ITS way, & must triumph and
will frankly add that | deem it highly
important TO the interests of this nation,
II we are to have Western President,
that the whole combined and harmoni-
Gus action OF the moral power of the
East be exerted to direct and aid the ad-
mlnlstratlon in that course which policy
and justice require, that party give way
to the great occasion, and the country
be secured at the sacrifice of every MI
nor consideration. Bya Western Presi-
dent, you will understand that allude
not TO portion ofthe Union but to an
individual. During the administration
OF Mr.. Monroe it has been deemed by
some that there has been relaxation
in that rigour of republican economy
with which Mr.. Jefferson commenced
his career, and that the habits of our
government have taken a prejudiciaI
tendency. Efforts at reform were made.
and many of them succeeded; yet they
attracted but little the attention of the
people, or served but to make those o.
dlous who endeavored to economist for
they were stigmatized as radicals and
subverters of our institutions but the
nation has had the benefit of their la
bors, and owes much of that benefit to
federaiists, who have had it in their
power to turn the scales when the
beam would have hung level without
their aid. 1t is go evident now, that, if
prescribed party, they will unite and
control measures of any administration,
that lrepeat what before said, that in
the present distracted state of the re-
DubIicaDs thew never had moro ,nor,I