Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

Miscellaneous Selections.

From the Baltimore Federal Republican

SUBMISSION MEN.

This is a description of politicians which the democrats are endeavoring to find any where else but amongst their own ranks, though they have had the government of the union, and that of most of the individual States these ten years past in their own hands exclusively.

In 1794, the federalists made a stand against the British, and procured a treaty, by which that nation engaged to pay for all the depredations committed on our commerce by their cruisers; in 1798, the same party made another stand against the French; and in spite of all the opposition of the democrats, compelled that nation to desist from their plundering system: but I am at a loss to discover any one instance in which the present ruling party has resisted these nations with effect.

In 1803, to avoid a manly support of an acquired right of deposit at New-Orleans, then ceded by France (for Spain was out of the question until lately, with any body, and the democrats are not willing to consider her any thing to this day, such is their awe for, or their subserviency to the palavering sans culottes) the administration took it into their heads to become speculators in human beings and land jobbers, and agreed to pay the French sixteen millions of dollars for Louisiana; France being then a debtor to the United States for about twice that sum, plundered of the American commerce previously to that time, say thirty million of dollars, exclusive of the sixteen million she received for the Louisianians, and also the French and Dutch debts. Between that time and the end of the embargo, France had plundered us of about thirty million more; and, as all this did not cause the arming of a single frigate, and as indeed, the administration were endeavouring to screen the French, by calling this property British property, Bonaparte saw no necessity to be scrupulous any longer, and boldly laid his hands on about thirty million of dollars worth of property more at one grasp; and now the democrats are endeavouring to persuade us, it is only borrowed, to be returned when we shall have engaged to carry on the war of the continent against its enemies the English, and this they would do, many of them, rather than resist the fraternity of nation enslavers and men-destroyers.

These plunderings added together make just ninety million of dollars, to say nothing of the produce and shipping lost by the embargo, or of our sailors imprisoned and sent home beggars by the French; and as the war has lasted but eighteen years it is just five million of dollars each and every year, the United States has been made to contribute towards their own ruin and that of Europe, and, strange as it may seem to assist the democrats to keep in power.

As the whole revenue of the U. States did not, on an annual average, amount to more than 10 millions, for every dollar the good people of this country pay into their own treasury, they have paid for eighteen years successively fifty cents, into the treasury of france, and this is five dollars a year each for every farmer, mechanic and merchant, capable of bearing arms in the United States—a handsome poll tax for Napoleon truly, and yet to be called a money loving, cowardly people, by him who receives it! Indeed during the last three or four years, Bonaparte has had more of our money than the administration, the army and navy of our country, with the interest of our public debt, put together. Let them deny it who can! Yes, we have paid more tribute towards the overthrow of France, of continental Europe, and of ourselves, than many of the kingdoms or republics, which have been overrun by French soldiers, and robbed of their last copper, as well as their independence.

To this have we not uniformly been made to submit by democracy—and is there the least probability that, as long as this party prevails in America, we shall cease to be tributary to France?

Let the people look to it at the elections, and save their country and themselves, by decisive opposition to democratic submission men at the polls.