Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

Democratic Economy.

When the leading democrats were striving to obtain the administration of the general government, they promised the people, that if they were placed in power, they would conduct the government with much more economy than the federalists did. Experience has since taught every man, who is not blinded by his prejudices, that this was all a fetch, a falsehood, propagated merely to deceive the people, in order to enable demagogues to obtain offices of power and profit. The plain fact is, and the people ought to know it, that the democratic administrations have been much more expensive than the federal ones. Does any one ask for the proof of this—see extract from the letter of the Hon. E. K. Potter, member of Congress from Rhode Island, published in August last, which puts this subject beyond dispute.

During the federal administrations, all our differences with foreign powers were amicably adjusted; and beneficial treaties negotiated and ratified; an efficient navy established, and our commerce protected. Under the reign of democracy, our treaties are suffered to expire, and we witness nothing but the expenditure of enormous sums of money, at sham and farcical attempts at negotiation, calculated only to amuse and gull the public; while the President receives his twenty-five, and the Secretaries their five thousands a year; and Collectors, Marshals, and Postmasters their fat fees.

The American Navy, once respectable and useful, is reduced to little more than Mr. Jefferson's two hundred contemptible boats of one gun, which lie rotting in our rivers and mud coves, a monument of the weakness and folly of democratic rulers. Another blessing which the people now experience from the wisdom of democrats is this—our national income is so much less than our national expenses, that the administration have, since the close of the last session of Congress, borrowed the enormous sum of three millions, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to meet the ordinary expenses, and keep 'the wheels of government' in motion. These are the works of thy gods, O democracy!