Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-06-16
ADMINISTRATION IN MAINE.

AT a meeting oil the FRIENDS OF the Admins
tration, recently held in Lincoln County,
Maine, The venerable Naval Hero Of The Revo-
luton, Commodore Tucker, presided.
"The Commodore has for seven years past,
confined himself to his residence, and had re-
fused many invitations 10 attend public cele-
brations, SC. On receiving an invitation TO
attend this convention designed to promote the
reelection OF John Quincy Adams, promptly,
and at a few hours notice, resolved to travel
twenty miles to the place OF meeting, in com-
pliance with The wishes ofhis fellow citizens.
When the vote Of thanks to the Chairman
was passed, the veteran Commodore addressed
the meeting, and with much energy and feeling
expressed his views Of the pending political
contest; he deprecated the election Of General
Jackson as a dangerous precedent, his claims
being founded altogether on the merit Of mills
,ary exploits; he applaaded the object of the
Convention in sustaining the we'll earned popu-
lari,y Of ]. Q. Adams, whose administratio
for wisdom and prudence, he thought would
compare with any Of his predecessors, and he
hoped he would be allowed TO serve the period
san ctioned by Washington: He alluded to his
former acquaintance with the father Of the
President, and also with the Presid,n ut himself,
and expressed his satisfaction in performing
this duty, perhaps the last public act of his
life, in favor Of a man, who "when a youth re
ceived his first rudiments as a patriot and
statesman, in those perilous times, when he
had the honor to convey him, in company with
his father to France"
The Wiscasset Citizen, in speaking of the
address of the hoary headed veteran, and the
intere sting occasion Of il, says-"The venera-
BILE locks, The trcmulous but decided voice, the
face which, in the 5~eautiful expression of MI>
Kerzie, had been touched, not spoiled with
age all called to mind that mighty struggle,
whose fruits we now enjoy, and during which
he captured more than 600 guns and 5000 men
from the British, without ever having sullied,
in a single instance, the honour of the Ameri>
can flag"
SHIPPING INTEREST," Some of the public
journals have already commenced charging TO
the account of the ne Tariff Of duties the
stapnation Of and the depressed
state of the shipping interest. That act OF the
government will be made a stalking horse, on
which may be conveniently packed all The en-
barrassments and distresses OF our merchants,
from whatever sources their misfortuhes may
have originated. 1t is a we'll known fact, that
our wharves were lined with vessels, which had
returned from the south in ballast, long, lon
before the Tariff bill passed. The truth is,
that short crops of cotton and other products
have essentially diminished the usual amount
Of freishts, while the quantity ofgoods i'm
ported in oreign bottoms has left our own
shipping without employment. Grant, for the
sake Of Argument, that the new Tariff is fraught
with all the evils to m which some
have anticipated, iii evident that the effects Of
the change in the rate Of duties cannot SO soon
be fell; and it will be time enough TO Say wolf
when the wolf has actually appeared.
~. y Statesman.