Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

Electioneering.
FOR THE PORTLAND GAZETTE.
To the Yeomanry of Massachusetts.

DUTY to ourselves, to our country, and to our posterity enjoins it upon us once to exercise our constitutional right of suffrage in the choice of chief Magistrate for the ensuing year. On so interesting a crisis as the present, when nations around us are deluged in blood, and when internal commotion and civil discord threaten us, an obscure individual of your number begs your indulgence for a moment while he addresses you, not in the language of science, or in the fulsome strains of flattery, but in the plain and simple language of the heart ; one who feels himself interested in the happiness and peace of society.-A quiet subject of the Government who never sustained an office either in Church or State, but considers it his duty to conform to the laws and institutions of both--who has many motives of self-interest to induce him to fall in with the prevailing politics of the present day, and nothing but strict justice and a sincere regard for his own dear country (which he never was out of) to induce him to stand to the principles of WASHINGTON and ADAMS-
One who views the present period as ominous of events, fatal to our dear bought rights and privileges-fatal to that independence which was declared by the friends and fathers of our common country in 1776-which has been so nobly maintained and so happily enjoyed by us for more than thirty years past. That we have been highly favored as a nation—that since the organization of the federal government we have enjoyed peace at home and respect abroad-that our increase in wealth and numbers has excited the envy of surrounding nations--none will deny. Being led by the hand of our American Moses and Joshua we have become great among the nations of the earth-thousands have sacrificed their lives in defence of that liberty which we enjoy--for this many a Hero has fought and bled. Notwithstanding all this, (such is the depravity of the human heart,) there are men who seek to rob us of this inestimable blessing--- designing, artful and aspiring men, who fawn upon us in the language of friendship while they conceal a dagger for our destruction-who like Joab accost us with the kiss of friendship while they conceal a dagger for our destruction-who like Absolom steal the hearts of the people by flattery-like wolves in sheep's clothing -like Judas who betrayed with a kiss -such men: by such arts have caused the people to " increase continually" with them—he Patriots who laid the foundation of our independence, are rejected and treated as enemies to their beloved country, whose cause they espoused in times of peril, to the hazard of their lives, and for the support of which they have spent the meridian of their days--Mr. Jefferson has said "we are all Federalists ; we are all Republicans."-I think he might have excepted a few such characters as has just been hinted at and classed them under the head of disorganizers, or traitors-a vast majority of the American people however, are undoubtedly friends to their country, at heart, whether they are called federalists or republicans, they have one and the same object in view-but there is an infinite difference between the instigators and abettors of modern republicanism and the federalists who oppose them-these self styled republicans are plotting our ruin-The federalists remain the same immoveable and invariable friends to their country at the present moment, that they were on the day when the great and good Washington was seated in the presidential chair, and have constantly advocated those measures which tended to make us happy and prosperous-they formed the federal constitution, ratified and confirmed it in the States, and have ever been the firm supporters of it--hence they are denounced by these disorganizers-
They are falsely called " Old Tories," evidently with a design to impose on the credulous and to lessen their confidence in their best friends--For the same purpose they are called monarchists, than which nothing can be more absurd, unless our constitution is a monarchical system, for they have not made even an attempt at innovation upon that, but always defended it-on Washington
Adams