The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-02-14 00:00:00, page 3

tween your own interests and and the sup
port of your country’s rights. Abanden oue,
‘and the other falls. Whatever be your station,
this is inevitable like the stroke of death. It
visits all alike ; merchant and wechanick,
farmer, lawyer or divine, all have the same
stake. The tyranny that mow drives you
from the sea, duless resisted with the energy
.of the union, will soon oppress you on the
land. These are not the suggestions of fapcy
. nor ave they addressed to your passions, but
to your deliberate judgment. Exercise it
without passion, and you will perceive the:
though divided there is not measure for our
strength : yet divided we should fall without
a blow.~You will find that division invites
hostility and weakens defence. Do not de
ceive yourseives with the idea that opposition
thay safely be entertained until the moment
of danger, and then be suddenly dropped.
Human nature contrudicts the idea. The
tion you have arranged yourselves in bands,
by whatever shades of interest or opinion you
#may have beep divided=—throw off the parey
-coloured livery that disgraces you.—~FEx
thange it for the honourable uniform of your
tountry ; no longer like the Highland slaves,
Suffer yourseives to be distinguished by the
_ panie of your leader, or adopt his principles,
his interests, and his deadly feuds. Your
Tountry’s hanour and her interest, your indi
fﬁidua(hpﬂpur, your private interest, demand
the solemn sacrifice of party feeling.—Never
Was an occasion, mere favourable for union,
never one that required it 80 much.~Eyen if
Jusensible to the value of reputation, you do
ot feel the indignity offered to your country
‘==the annihiliation of its trade may forcibly
affect you ; and the floating dungeons which
confine the bodies of your unhappy country
men, may also stifle their groans.—Yet you
eannot be indifferent to the rest.—The voice
of bieod will be heard. It cried out to Hea
ven, we are told, when it first crimsoned the
earth. The Almighty heard it. He fixed his
:xark upon the murdererand implanted in the
uman heart an horrour for the crime, which
Ro reasoning can eradicate. Even while you
veud you feel this truth, and the bodies of
your countrymen, not slain in honourable
war, but butchered in the unsuspecting hour
of peace, present themselves to'your view.
They call aloud for atonement—and tell you
with the solemnity of the grave, that the re
putation of their country fell with them, and
will never resuscitate until revived by hon
_ourable satisfaction or by speedy vengeance.
These, suppress them as you willy Auneri
cans, are your sentiments. Whatever be
your party, you feel on the perusal of this
simple statement a short indignation, that be
comes you. Is the emotion momentary ?
Do you want the aid of other emotions to
_ does not deign to make them for herself.
+They degrade you. They may rain your
gountry.
RerußLicans ! Be worthy.of your names !
=it implies all your country can desire you
shiould possess. Synonymous with patriot
isw, courge, and impatience under illegal
control, let it also be characteristick of mod
evation, and the dignfied forgiveness of wrong.
Shew that however irritated by oppression,
you can receive with the grasp of friendship,
eévery hand that shall pledge its aid in the
great work of defence. But remember the
_“Yesponsibility that rests en you, and you alone
‘«=llf any serious injury sheuld result from
igour neglect, the best excuse you can offer,
_ %o your constituents for the time already iost,
will be a wretched one. A diligent employ
fuent of that which yet is yours, can alone
fetrieve you in their opinien.
“' AmEricans ! Under whatever denomina-
ed o hlm, ‘He 1o abijous of bounest wwe,
and wounded by the suffcrings of his cotn
try ;=—yet the conduct with which he is char
ged would tend only to ruin his reputdtion
aud desticy every mope of retuiming the conli
dence of the people,
' Again, my countrymen, let me assert that,
In the secret sanctuary of your hearts you do
homuge to truth, and abjure these malcontent
slanders. Give way to these feelings. They
are the voice of the deity within—and cannoe
lead you wrong j—utter in publick what your
secret counscience says is right—trust me !
the triumpleof wruth is better than any which
party can prepare, and a reputation for can
dour and frankness move precious than a re
nown agguired in the ranks of errvour. It will
more than indemuify you for the scoffs and
ridicule you dread for your desertion. Besides
hus it never occured 10 you==that untoward
wvents might oblige England to disown the
iusoience as she once did the justicé” of her
minister ¢ and have you clearly appreciated
in this case the overwhelming shame of having
offered to the enemies of your country argu
smcuts against her which even they will dis
_duia to ccept. .
FuprrazasTs !l ask no change of princi
ple. Retain your name. Retain whiie you
think them right your tenets. Guard the
constitution against any excesses of democra
¢y, which you think would destroy it. But
while yeu watch the postern, do not let your
:fcthm‘n‘b’ overpowered in the gaie. Yeu
ave here a common 'interest : take then a
‘common share in the danger, in the glory of
the defence and do not employ that full share
of talent, which it is.acknowledged you pos-
sions like the waves will not be comman
s::l. Once in motion they may overwhelm
us, but cannot be restrained. Experience
contradicts it-—and that a sense of common
danger is an effectual restraint we have too
iy examples 1o doubt—neither the vigor
oy attack of an enemy without, nor the pres
sure of pestilence, famine, and conflagaration
'ﬁfﬂ, could for a moment calm the fury of
the parties that raged in Jerusalem——a worse
sewurse than cither fire or sword, huager o:
sustain it ! Look for it in the connection be-
qﬁln in framing apologies for a nvagioi\, which
We will not insult our country so mych as
to suppose her intimidated either by fmncc
or by Great Britain. When an infant, she
boldly met her enemy in the field, and’defeat
¢d and despised her ; now then, when she is
almost ' grown into manhood, and whei her
strength has increased with her dytp'l‘y vhe
surely cannot tremble at the windy menaces
of a miseruble old woman, bowed down with
years, depressed by misfortunes, ruined in
her credit, and debilitated amd impoverished
by corruption and extravagance. .
In the name of your country ; in the name
of liberty ; in the name of these brave men,
who died for that country, and procured that
liberty, we again conjure you to upite-—if; at
the commencement of our party, the reasons
for union were strong, at this critical mo
ment, those reasons are still more command
ing—if there have been any groundless prej
udices ; if there have been any unifortunate dis
putes among us, let us endeavour to destroy
and to forget them—let us endeavour to sic
rifice those prejudices, and even our passions
on the altar of our country.
It may be unpleasant, but it cannot be unh
useful, te travel back to the birth ef our par
ty, and to consider, for a moment the causes
which brought us together. We bhad been
oppressed, and we were determined to remove
the oppressor-if then it were necessary to
remove him, at that time,ought we not to be
extremely ‘careful lest we place him in his
former situation ! We had seen a land tax ;
unequal and impracticable—an excise; slav
ish, burthensome, and unproductive——a sedi
tion law; crue\.degﬂd'mg and oppressive——an
army of officers, raised without cause, and
those officers appointed without merit ; the
veteran being passed, to pramote the stripling
~—extravagant loans, and unprecedented in
terest—a debt increasing, while the revente
increased—a judiciary created in darkucss,
and created for party ; very convenient to the
holders of office, but rather inconvenient to
those who paid them——a navy, which nz:d
faster than it sailed—foreign intercourse fool
ishly extended, and unnecessarily burthen
some ; exiended to provide snyg births for
party, at the expense of the people. These
were amonyg the causes, which brought us to
gether—if they were loud enough to awaken
us at that time, ought we not to be extreme
ly careful,lest, through a fatal sieep, we again
subject surselves to the same evils !
It must be unnecessary to remind yoy of
the wanton murder in your own waters, of
the unoffending Pierce~—of the insulling so
lemnities of a mock-trial, for the pcrzetntioﬂ
of that murder—of the still more insulting
promotion of the villain, who perpetrated it
~=of the ddting attack on the Chesapeake—
of the savage murder of some of your sea
men ; and the cruel slavery of thousands of
z:en—in a moment spatched from fvi-ecdom,
une, and enjoy ment—depriving their coun
try of their d-{? and them of uu‘l;r CONNrY—
compelled to fight against their owe friends,
'l'be-_di:q‘idc et imprera of Rome was her
most formiiduble as well as fuvourite maxim,
and the perusal of our newspapers must con
vince us, that its vse is not confined 1o anti
quity. I could enlarge on this subject, but if
the sentiments of my readers go with me, |
have said enough—if they do not, volumes
would not sutfice.
In this number, I may appear te have wan
dered from my plan, but it is no degression-
I am treating on the meuns of defence—und
their ground work is uUnilon——the supersuruc
ture is sixngle. _
| VINDEX.
*.* A meeung of the Republican Citizens of
the town of Newport, will be held at Mr, E,
TrEavET?'s School-House, on FRIDAY cvens
ing next, at 6 o’clock.
A prunciual and general attendange is fartic
ularly requeated,
disease, e {ast grenlest cuise wus regerie
by EHeaven for the accomplishment of t
prophecies und the instrument of its wrath.
TO THLE REPUBLICANS OF RHODL.
ISLAND.
FELLOW CITIZEMS, | '
APPOINTED by our brethren in the
town of Newport, we beg leave to address
you.” Ata moment, when the dearest intei
ests of our country demand the most active
exertions of her citizens, it is confidenciy ex
pected, that yon will readily unite in assisting
and supporting her. ‘
When foreign powers, unsatisfied with past
aggressions, continue to violate our rights, as
an incependent pation, and even dare to pre
scribe rules to us, as a menial colony——when
foreign ministers, pretending to be the mes
sengers of peace, in the very face of the na
tiott, dare to insult the constututed authorities
of our country, and afterwards to insuit that
country itself, by publickly endeavouring 1e
excite it aguinst those authorities which it
hac just appointed-=when men are found a
meng us, base enough to support those viola
tions, and to justify these insults=—when they
dare to do it, even ih the great council of our
nation~when, unfortunately for Rhode-Isl
and, three fourths of her representation are
found among them—=when legislative resolves
are raised in battle array aguinst the consti
tutional powers of our government—-when
those resolves, without moderation, and with
out argument, seem only intended to preduce
anarchy among us—At such a moment, we
conjure you to come forward in your streangth,
and with one mighty effort to resist foreign
aggression, and to punish domestick treach
ery.
- NEWPORT :
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1810,
The Hon. ELsntncs Geany, has been sominated
for Governour, and the Hon. Win Lian Geay, Tor
Lientenant-Governo nr of Massichusetts, by e Re
publicans of thet Ruawey .
Some havc honestly questioned the pro
priety of our institution, on we grand princi
ple of national policy. Such scrupulous men
surely cannet listen & single moment to the
bickerings of pigmy-malice nor heedthe rav
ings of a mad factien, whose object is the de
struction of every barvier which cun possibly
defend the liberties of eur countrvy. Our So
ciety 1s founded on the sentiments which ac
tuate Freemen, and has for its object the
cultivation of the social virtues ; the con
centration of politcai knowledye ; the perpet
uation of those principles which eventuated
iR AMERICAN .INDEPENDENCE. In our so
cial capacity, we claim no exemptions or im
munities ; we restrain no member in the ex
ercise of his politcal opinions. Our lastitu
tion is not, as has been represented, & con
venticle of faction : it is the Palace of Liber
ty, whose rampired battlerpents will defy the
“rude assaubts of despotism 3 the tervomr of
its Republican strength shall stifle the secret
thoughts of tregson : the bold invader of our
rights shall tremble at the name of #'4M
MANY ! Justly has it spread alarm and
discomfiture through the ranks ol our coun
try’s enemies, from the daring unprincipled
villan, who has judgement to ploty and pre«
“sumption to attempt,the ruin of our liberties,
~down to the most contemptible sluve, who im
-plicitly obeys the mandates of a superiour,
and panders politcal infamy lor daily bread !
} Brothers ! '
~ May you always bear in remembrance the
designs of our Institution, and duly appréci
ate the high prerogatives of Freemen ==
May you rightly discern the duties of rulers,
and the privileges of the ruled ; andas zeslously
guard against the extieme of licentiousness,
as that of oppression. May the sons or T4m.%4.
N never so fur sink ino political idolatry, as
to bow the knee to the proud puppet ofa king,
always the weakestand meanest, or the busest
‘and wickedest of mankind. May they never
swellthe giddy multitude of sycophamick
slaves. who surround the presence of majesty
to administer to his guilty pleasares, mm.
plicitiy execute his high behest. '
I wili believe, that if the time gha!l avér
come, when the secret iafluence of luxury
and corruption shall enervate our national
strengt! ; when the rights and priyileges of
the common people shall be graduilly swal
lowed up by the growing power of a haughty
and self-created aristocracy 3 and when it
shall please leaven to puta period w 0 our ex
istence as a free nation, the sonNs oy T4n
maxr, who have witnessed the inevitable de-~
struction of their liberties, will be secen re
treating over the prostrate ruins of our Re
publican institutions, to the wiwAM——and’
their live or die with the swrviving or expir
ing Rame of our violated rrEEDOM |
Gentlsmen from different parts of New-
Hampshire, who have the best ineans of in
formation, state, that the Patriot SOHN
LANGDON, viill undoubtedly be chosen
Governour of thag State, at the ensving e
lection, by a very large majority. Maseachu
sette will follow the glorisus exangple.
(Bost. Pat.]
A letter from Washington, dated F ebruary
1, says, Macon’s bill, after two reacdings in the
Senate, is refered 10 a select committee, :}h
sisting of Gen. Giles and Gen, Saml. Smith
of Maryland.” [ Mer. Adv.]
oo ot apalnst thelr OWn DALIGR==EY
wod i nlnse,s o violeuce, and discase~=oP
ge bokd cuempt of Grest Britain, to aguin
colorize s conmu'y sby ordering our ves
st o e pors |y demanding weibate, when
there 5 by arvoguntly cliniing the pewer ei
ther to wrut, ur to deny a conunuance of their
voyage ; aud by shutting the poits of the
coutinent of Hurope, on those vessels, upder
pretence of heing hostile pluces, while at the
same Ume, she opened, through the trickish
medium uf a licence, the ports of her encmy,
to her own vessels, called Amecrican, for an
infumous, and smuggling traffick—tbus by a
single act, viokating the laws of natious, her
own laws, and the laws of morality.
These cruelties and these insults call loud
for our attentionm-<the manes of our coun.
tryinen are yvet unappeased.—Republicans, u
nite ! und your wrongs will be redressedwewe
are not the friends o?‘wdo»—we well Know that
this country can only flourish in moments of
peace ; and we well know, that by your union
only, can that peace be preserved—but if, in
spite of every exertion, we must fatally be
dragged into war, we may easily predict the
consequences—the same blood which run in
the veins of your fathers, stll runs in yours
~=the same patriotick heat, which animated
them, will continue to animate you. Unite }
we conjure you, unite ! the aop of justice
will aid your exeruuns, aud again siniie on
your victory. .- ; )
l'er this purpose we request the Republi
cans of those townsy either partly, or wholly
repeesciied by Federalists, to send us many
persons, as they have Representatives in the
Generel Asseinbly, us Delegates, to & Genes
ral Convention of this State, to be holden at
Providence, on wepsEspay, the 28th day of
Fabruary, A. D, 1810-2 then ‘and (here o a
gree on a Prox of Geaeral Officers, to serve
for the year egsuiag,
In behalf of the Committee.
CONSTANT TABER, Chairman
THOMAS PECKHAM, Sccreiary.
¢ TJC"Q"-'N'.
-y A
EXTRACT EROM WILLIAM L. MARCT'S ORA-
TION, DELIVERED BEFORE THE SONS
OF TAMMANT, (N TROY, N. Y,
“ Broihers,
.~‘-
AT LT =or rwwrr ey e
On Sawurday evening lust, at the going down' of
sun, the Gueat Comcil Five wus hghted up in this
town, «t the Wigwmn in the Statesiouse, After the
soleinnities of initiation, the tollowing membeis were
- elected, pro tem. to serve till the Auniversary clav
tion, in May next, L 3
Hon. CONSTANT TARER, Grand Suchets.
‘ Cupt. JOHN CAHOONE, Futier in Couneil,
Capt. GEORGE TOPHAM, Suganiore.
THOMAS G. PITMAN, Esq. freasurer,
Mr. WILLIAM SIMONS, Secretary. =~
Mr. KUBERT LAWTON, jun, Minekinde.
et @ .
A very large und valuable body ‘of Iron
Ore, hus been discovered in Chester, (N.H )
necr the Merrimack River.
W‘“‘.
. MARRIED,
In the 20 Babtist Meeting-House in this town,on e
7th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Gibson, the Rey, Bera JA
cous, of Somerset, to Miss SARAN SPRAGUE, of Lis
own,”
AU Mangfield, ("Con. )on the 28th ult. by the Rev,
Mr. Williams, Cupt. Joiix Murrey, of this town, o
Miss Apavriza govncwou-ru. daughter of Capt.
Samuel Southworth, of Mangfield.
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‘ ; DIED,
~ In this town, universally respected and dieply lne
\ mented, Mrs) Byaw Lawrox, widow of the late
Capt. John Lawton, &t. 61. Mer funeral will procecd
~from her Jute dwelling house, on Point Brivgge. (GE
morrow aficrnoonyut 3 o'clock ; which the relations,
friends, und wequaintance, ure requested to atieud,
without a more particulur nvitation.
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MARINE LIST. |
Spgeey ‘
PORT OF NEWPORT.
Entered ~Hrig Feonomy, Smith, Alexandria; sch,
} Ralph, Wheat, St. Burtholomews ; do. Experiment,
- Church, Norfolk ; sloop Lydia, Potter, Alexundria ;
do. Sully, Wing, Savamah ; do. Hermit, Mernhew,
Pasquotaah, (N. C.) do. Fame, Davis, New-York; do
Fame, Wulden, do. ; do. Golden-Age, Cotraell ditto,
Cleaved==Ship Thowmus Murdock, Salter, N, York ;
sch, Azubah & Ruthy, White, lavanna i sloop Jue
liet, Southworth, do, ,
TAMMANY SOCIETY, ox
COLUMBIAN ORDER.
/_\N adjourned meeting of the TAM.
4 A MANY SOCIETY, or Corumbran Orniin,
- will be held This Evening, [being the 14th of tha
~month of *“ BSnows,”) at the Council Fire of .ﬂl:"‘
Great W:gvam, in the State. House, precisely h
an hour after the going down of the sun,
l By order of the Grand Suchem,
‘ WILLIAM SIMONS, Sec'ry, pro tem *
1 * Season of Hunting,”
Year of Discovery, 318, z Feb. 14,
- Month of ** Snows,” the 14¢h,§
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Republican Convention. :
j g el &Q. ’ " .
A GENERAL CONVENTION of
‘ the REPUBLICANS of this State will be
holden at the State-House, in Providence, on Weds
nesday, the 28tk day of February.~Thuse towns in
the Sthte, who ave renresented in the General Ag.
scrubly by federalists, ure thevefore desived to elecs
Detagates to uttend the Convention.
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- NOPICE.
r l “HI Stockholders in the Proércss:'u
" Com , Are requested to meet %
Hel s, rm”%’!ﬂh\mmwﬂ. QJ} ' o
6 o'clock. JOHWN R(?DMAN. Clerk.
L Baeg :
: .NOTICE. _
y I ‘HE subscriber (as he intends to
leave this town for New-York, on the first of
Muy next) carnestly sulicite all those who are indebie
ed to him, to call and setilie, previous to that time, so
43 to enauble him o satisfy those to whott he is 040%
WILLIAM MUNROE
Feb, 7. i ‘
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- Fresh Flour for Sale.
J superiour quality, . -Jln.-!o , &ﬂ?‘
UST Janding 150 bbls, Superfine FLZOUR, of a very -
10 Pipes Country Gl'. The dnpm w&
purchased at avorﬂ &ut bnsqin.' st 94, b
strect, KY Y.CRANSTON & CO:
Pva I‘. » ~ A ‘e
%——M :
FOR SALI‘.“-,—-"[\t Publick Agc‘uop,‘
On TUESDAY the 20¢h inet, at XT Q'Chcbi"x‘&
(if fair weather, if not, on the firet fuir day ufier)
THAT well known Lot of LAND,
situated in the south mor the town of New.
port, conauenly culled the Lat,containing ebout
sucres. Said Land will be divided W:;w s, esch o
contain about 1 1-4 aeres, wid will mensureom #lameo
sireet, abont 150 feet euch. Conditiviis mude kiawi
at time und placeof sale. -~ +
Dightony Feb. 11 Ree- W L |
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Patent Sprmg Stirr ups,
DOMETT & FAIRBANKS, S.d.
dlers, No. 14, Marlbore'.Srreet, Boston, linve
reccived by the Ship Ceres, from Ul?-l. & .ol
ionable assortment of SADDLERY, and HARNPsY
Y Piene Sping. S ivel, cradlebostom
T Paient 8 3 swivel, ’
‘L loup'd, ﬁmc;r and mdﬂx«l ao, 3 ”muly lu_u n
- wets, with f'-ney- Bridle Ormaments, and Bricket
Plwies, to watch ; Duke and Portsmonth s 4
- BDuke, nuting, and gharded snafites ; Corb Claine,
and Bradoons ; fubl pluted and #ipt couch and gz
- Hemes ckg-nt cosch Bitts, few "pattams gmé
large Curb Chains to mutch ) {:Md roifér Buidie
- Buckles and shides to match ; Muridngule Hooks |
polished stee), and tined roller Backles, of ‘s cuperis
our quality ; patent trank Locks ; common o ; €
chait and fancy phlated Spurs ; teimming
;mo Horse Pickers . Carrycombs and Brushes
nurse ‘h Skins ; Saddlers’ Sngehnd bridle Pirhb.
roler, fancy, snd spring Girth Webs ¢ spring %add
Tras 4. & low Gl griine. red o Rbito. \
Constantly fioe sale, Gomel and Chsive H .
. ,C a eise Hartiess ;
general -n’mﬂul of W'h.ix:‘; Suddies, sitnfored and
g‘l:inamw;ld and Bear Skine, suitee
for Sleighs. - ! ‘
u»ua_mm Piiladelpida, Skiring and
Leather, whicle hides and sidee, switabile for ¢
and Boows of Chaige,” yovie extre larpe. 2