Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

MISCELLANY.

FROM THE ALBANY GAZETTE.

The following paragraph is copied from the Answer of the President of the United States to an Address from the "Democratic Wards" of Philadelphia: -

"It is to be lamented that any of our citizens, not thinking with the mass of the nation as to the principles of our government, or of its administration, and seeing all its proceedings with a prejudiced eye, should so misconceive and misrepresent our situation as to encourage aggression from foreign nations. Our expectation is that their distempered views will be understood by others, as they are by ourselves. But should war be the consequence of these delusions, and the errors of our dissatisfied citizens find atonement only in the blood of their sounder brethren, we must meet it as an evil necessarily flowing from that liberty of speaking and writing which guards our other liberties - and I have entire confidence in the assurances that your ardor will be animated in the conflicts brought on by considerations of the necessity, honor, and justice of our cause."

TH: JEFFERSON.
May 25, 1808.

Has Mr. Jefferson any recollection of a man, who, when Secretary of State, under General Washington, held with a foreign Minister language "CONFIDENTIAL," so misrepresenting our situation as to encourage "aggressions" and insult? - Does he recollect a Secretary of State, who "seeing all the proceedings of our Government with a jaundiced eye," did patronize a public newspaper, in which attempts were constantly made to bring into discredit with the people, the administration of General Washington, and to induce foreign nations to believe, we were a divided and distracted people? -
Does Mr. Jefferson recollect a man, who, "not thinking with the mass of the nation as to the principles of our government, or its administration," revised the proof sheets of Callender's infamous "Prospect before us," in which General Washington was called a "traitor," and President Adams "a hoary headed incendiary?" - Does he recollect the man, who paid Callender FIFTY DOLLARS for writing the same infamous book, and in a letter to the author, intimates that these writings, "aided by the Leatherbreeches," would have the best effect, and "soon put the people right" - Does he recollect the person who wrote the letter to Mazzei, and the contents of that letter?
Candid answers to these queries, might be of great service to "our People" at this time, in justly appreciating the conduct of some men in power, and in deciding on some of the most prominent measures of the administration particularly those which DEPRIVE ONE PART OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE PRIVILEGE OF EATING BREAD, and THE OTHER OF FINDING A MARKET FOR THEIR SURPLUS PRODUCE.
See Genet's letter to the then Secretary of State.