Jenks's Portland Gazette

From the Boston Chronicle—March 10.

THE jacobins writers in the Chronicle, in favour of Mr. Gerry, come forward with a modesty peculiar to themselves, and arraign the conduct of the most respectable Members of the General Court, for meeting in their individual capacity, and discussing, as was ever usual, the subject of the ensuing election.

The charge comes with an ill grace from these exclusive patriots, when it is known that the jacobins members had their caucus for Mr. Gerry, with this difference, that their doings were as usual in secret, while the conversation of the federalists was open as the day. These writers speak feelingly of the abuse bestowed on their friend M'Kean, the noted jacobins governor of Pennsylvania; and they express their stupid fears lest Mr. Strong, if elected governor, "should commence a controversy with the state of Pennsylvania" and they have even gone so far as to insinuate that the political sentiments of Mr. Gerry would be more in union with those of Mr. M'Kean, than the political sentiments of Mr. Strong show. Mr. Gerry will relish this insinuation remains yet to be ascertained.

It was to have been expected that Mr. Gerry would long since have expressed his indignation at the liberty which the disciples of Talleyrand have seen fit to take with his name, and it never was to have been believed that Mr. Gerry would have suffered himself to become the Puppet of as vile a jacobins Faction as ever blackened society :—the fact is however, undeniable that Mr. Gerry is the favorite candidate of the jacobins. Whether this gentleman's silence is to be considered as an acquiescence in the nomination, the writer of this article will not undertake to determine.

The citizens of Boston, having no particular partiality for any one candidate, have been waiting to find the man generally approved of throughout the State. This man has been found; and every post and passenger to the capital announce the pleasing tidings, that the Hon. CALEB STRONG, of Northampton, is the favorite candidate of the PEOPLE. If gentleness of manners, dignified deportment, uncommon abilities, unshaken patriotism, republican federalism, manly firmness and strict morality are qualifications for a Governor, Mr. Strong will unquestionably be the Man whom the People will delight to honor.

At a period like the present, when the European world seems shaken to its centre, when every engine, which ingenuity or malice could invent, has been set at work to convulse nations far removed from the great scene of confusion, and who are anxious only for repose—does it not highly become the People of the United States to erect a barrier, which shall set bounds to the Arms and intrigues of an aspiring power, and the more detestable plots of a home faction? and how is this to be done otherwise than by electing men to the first Offices in our Government, conspicuous for their love of country and their hatred of foreign influence?

The Republican Federalists, therefore, are earnestly called upon to exert themselves on the first Monday in April next; the jacobins, they may be assured, are on the watch and even on tip toe to catch them napping—if, therefore, we suffer ourselves from any consideration whatever to be diverted from the great object of the election, an election so important to our general happiness, we shall richly deserve the reproach of our own consciences, and merit the severest censure of our posterity: nay, more than that, we shall become fit subjects for the ROD which the "TERRIBLE REPUBLIC" has constantly kept prepared for those who dare oppose HER WILL.