Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

THE REIGN OF VIOLENCE.—The public will read the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury with astonishment. Arbitrary and oppressive laws require arbitrary and oppressive measures to secure their execution. Here we see that instead of leaving the laws to courts of justice, a bloody military is to be raised and called into action to force obedience to them. The general government is to be set in array against the state governments. The collectors of our ports, (good democrats all) are to be lordly despots, though the President to be sure is to be the great bandit over them; the citizens are no longer to have an appeal to the laws for redress against their tyranny, and the judges of the courts are to be deprived of the power of issuing a writ to bring them before them.

The land already begins to swarm with the spies of government, & that detestable character, an informer, receives daily encouragements and reward.

If there is any truth in what Mr. Masters has said and published, that "the hand of Napoleon was in this thing," laying the Embargo; then surely a more fit instrument could not have been found to secure its execution according to the latest and most approved method of doing such things in France than Albert Gallatin—Albert Gallatin a foreigner by birth, a foreigner in habits, manners and speech— Albert Gallatin, who advised, counselled and abetted insurgency against our government & kindled the flame of insurrection around a whiskey pole.

After this, after the adoption of this bill, cease Americans, cease, I beseech you, to talk of Liberty, for you have none; of Independence, for it is gone —your property is to be seized and wrested from you upon suspicion— your houses entered and examined on suspicion—and if butchery follows on suspicion, it is no more than you have to expect. Turn not eyes towards the temples of justice, they are shut against you—Appeal not to your government, it is the very source from whence all your calamities flow.—N.Y. E. Post.