Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

CONNECTICUT ELECTION.

The result of the late election, was as unexpected to federalists, as it is believed to be unwelcome to a majority of the good people of this State. Majorities must and ought to govern in republics, and when fairly obtained, good citizens will acquiesce and submit to their determinations. But artificial majorities, such as are sometimes raised by deceitful appeals to the ignorance and prejudices of mankind; by exciting false alarms and visionary hopes; by addressing the selfishness of some, and the sectarian feelings of others: by flattering the ambition of the young, and cajoling the weakness of the aged;—such majorities ought not to command respect, and cannot long maintain their ascendancy in an enlightened community. Great is truth, and though obscured for a moment by the mist of passion and prejudice, it will most assuredly break forth and again illumine our political horizon.

In this view of the subject, we may look with an eye of hope and encouragement to the glorious example of our sister Massachusetts. There democracy, though boasting much more talents and liberality than she ever claimed, was soon obliged to give up the ground by her accustomed arts she once occupied. If her Dexters, Sullivans, Gerrys and parsons, with old John Adams and his son to help them, could not sustain democracy from sinking in Massachusetts—who can sustain her in Connecticut? It is indeed strange when democracy is going out of fashion every where else, that she should at length obtain a triumph here.—Conn. Journal.