Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

"Power" & "No Power."

Every reader of Mr. Giles's speech must have remarked the following passage: "What does he tell us are his positive powers! A power merely to receive and discuss.—Ah, Sir, every gentleman here present has that power; and indeed every lady, Sir, has the power to receive and discuss; and eventually to conclude a convention, &c. But, Sir, the power merely to receive and discuss, is what is very properly called, and is in fact, no power."

One Philosopher has said that Mind is Power: another that Eloquence is Power; another that Wealth is Power; another that Truth is Power: another that the Sword is Power: another that Influence is Power, &c. Now we must be convinced, upon the authority of Mr. Giles, that all powers are no powers, and this upon the old fashioned principle of believing a thing because it is impossible.

The Orator has not been excessively gallant to the Ladies in telling them that however to receive and discuss proposals, and eventually to conclude a convention, is in fact no power. We much mistake, if every lady, does not consider it an important power, and one which she would not exchange even for the laurels that bloom around the brow of Mr. Giles. The Ladies, we presume, consider it a power almost equal to that which they possess in common with other "Sovereigns," of "precluding abused opportunities" by dismissing an ambassador or correspondent who insults them with "gross insinuations."

NOTE.

* It will be recollected that Mr. Macon once toasted the Ladies as "The real Sovereigns of the United States."

[Freeman's Journal.]