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PORTLAND GAZETTE, AND MAINE ADVERTISER
Portland, Published by Arthur Shirley… Exchange Street.
Monday, September 3, 1810
MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS FROM THE COLUMBIAN
"is it to be supposed that our government are to throw the gauntlet of defiance at the great despot of continental Europe, and prefer hostility TO A FURTHER SUBMISSION TO HIS INJUSTICE AND RAPACITY?
We have no idea of war with Bonaparte, although under any other circumstances we should be inexcusable in not declaring it."
Without having seen the above article from Mr. Holt, announcing the determination of his party "further" to submit to the robberies, burnings, and ??? of Napoleon, the Luzerne Federalist has thus pleasantly paraded the base sentiments of submission, and drawn to the life a picture of the Terrapin party in the United States.
"Napoleon, to try those Terripin fouls,
Now heap’d on their backs, his hot burning coals,
The reptiles just wine’d and stretch’d out their claws,
Then stuck out their nose, to look for the cause,
They saw ‘twas friend Bony, and cry’d very well,
Then quickly slunk again to the shell.
The ordeal again he quickly repeated,
But still by their fears, his schemes were defeated.
And while torpidity answer’d for spirit
Submission was conquest, and sufferings was merit.
AND SO WE GO."
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-Napoleon Bonaparte
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