{"newspaper_name": "Portland gazette and Maine advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
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here was a time, felIow-citizens.
(says the Evening Post) when MIL
LIONS FOR DEFENCE, NOT A
CENT FOR TRIBUTE, was the
sentiment which beat high in every bo-
som, and when the generous ardor ex-
tended itself to the administration.-A-
las the sad reverse 4! MILLIONS have
been shipped off from your very port.
under your very eyes.....Yes SIXTY
TONS OF SILVER were shipped off by
your government only few DAYS since
as tribute to the French monarch.
while your merchant vessels are left
to be captured, and their crews 10 be
murdered your defenceless city to be
laid under contribution or sacked :.
your houses to be burnt to ashes your
wives and children to be slaughtered,
and every species Of human wretched-
ness to be brought upon you for the
want OF this very money, thus DISGRACE
fully, scandalousIE, UNANIMOUSLY sent to
I'LL the Golfers ofa foreign despot. Gra-
cious God And is this a government f.?
Is this protecting US in the enjoyment
OF life, liberty and property :


Had we but few of those frigates in
our harbour, which now lie rottinr in
the mud Of the Potomac, how many
thousand gallant hearts would gladly
volunteer their services to drive off or
sink the invaders Of our COAST