The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-04-11 00:00:00, page 2

Is this (v atoiement and reparation which the federal
" leaders solemaly png’bd their lives and fortunes to obtuin ¢
even the shadow ot Ihe disavowal is now übandoned by the Brit
ish government. Copenhagen Jackson is now the man whose
conduct in this afliar they are pledging their lives and
forunes to support with all their zcal ! !
Wit ought the People of America think of such men ?
FROM THE COLUMBIAN PHENIX.
0 .
The electioneering champaign has commenced, und the
conduct und languagy of our opponents manifest the budness
of their cause, and their despair of success. To the most
shameiess inconsisteficy they add the most impudent falsehood.
They pretend at the same time that nothing but a desire to
promote peace and hurmony has prevented thém from sup
porting u clean fedefal prox, and they accuse us with being
disturbres of the pelice of the State because we will not give
our votes for men whose political sentiments and conduct we
have in the utmost abhorrence ! We wish for hurmony—for
hatmoany upon a great and an extended scale. We wish for
hatmony with the national government, a prescivation of the
peace of the union We wish for no anti-embargo mobs, no
burning in” cifigy {he President of the United States—no
breaking open and robbing publick stores—=no town meeting
resolves and exhortations to encourage a violation of the luws
imnd to pursuade the militia to disobey the commands of their
Commander in C:ief.' But we have witnessed in town all
thiy'gnd more thad this since the reign of these men, who
ow preach vp pegce and harmony ; and this was their con
juct.* . The men/who call themselves federalists hoisted the
lag of the union pn the publick bridge in this town, hall way
ip the flug staff, qud revesrd.~This was an open and a pub
ick display of their contempt for the union. Had the Re
oublicans hoisted 'the flug of B¢, George in this manner, they
voujd ut once m:ieruood its meaning, and would have sent,no
loubt, one of their mobs to have torn it down, or to have hois
ed itin & mhore lpyal maner. Shall our nativnal flag be thus
vam pled u he laws set at defiuce-~the publick peace
listurbed-=the fynilies of Republicans insulted by a lawless
mob, headed by ¢ mun with a drawn sword, and the rest arm
ed with cord-whigd stick?, und their fears alarmed for the
sifety of w busband and a lathert-=the President of the U.
States be burned in effigy~=the drum beut to town meeting
for the purpose *f orgamizing and encouraging rebeliion——re
solutions p ssed breathing the spirit of toryism and treason,
s exhorting the citizen soldiery not to interfere, ¢ven when
sominanded, td prevent the forcible violation of the laws ;
viiwdl @il this be done, und shull the acters in these scenes the
promoters of thLu utrocities, escape the publick indignation
\hd covering thgomselves with the mantle of peace, harmony
and chavity, prqsent themselves to the publick as the most
worthy candid.tes for favour and confidence, and us best cal
-alated to ewloy the turbulence of faction, and, amidst pros
yrous gales, dnd under a serene sky, to guide our poiitical
t:n-qm to the haven of prosperity and happiness ! No, these
« whited sepulchres’ shall be luin open, and their inward
pollution exposed. - Such wolves shall never be tiusted with
vha kacping of the fold. : 2 2 |
| Py aget o REMEMBRANCER.
- e ——— e {7 ; ’ '
_ * In & letterpublished at this time in the Boston Gazette,” a feder:
al_m&o_m « gentleman in this town, it was s*ated, that had the mil
ia appeared to support the laws, and fired a single guny all of them wenid
t &::\:m dm‘m”pnb‘im they called outté him, “ Come |
sut,: you det’d old jacobin,” and set up their showings before the
bowses of eevarul others. -
The f~deral party, in theie ravi uently express Republican
::M:“ ! J’ﬁd’iﬂ they do lon,?:‘;m us glouure o “ rp-:pdlo‘nb
sume a a ae extensive ae i our -
we therefore nﬂbﬂvﬂmwﬁ' .d:{fu- copicd verbatim m the
Newport Meroury of the 7th inst. as was taken from the Providence A. |
Ricrican, qr?n those words printed in Italicks——which. we add to give
it & more explicit Republican meaning. The editor will pardon us for
he plagiarivm. |
70 Me BLECTORS of the STATE of RHOD E-ISLAND,
GUENTLEMEN, iy
W¢é bave already suggested to you sundry considerations
why it iv deemed adviscable to lend to The True Kepublican
Prox your assistunce at the ensuing election. These conside
erations flnce our lust addrens, have acyuired adaivional ime
portunce ai¢ wright. ' In proporiiarams the precepts of Washe
ington are dbanduned and. depuicd tromesi. proportion as
those principles that unimied our heroes of '76, both in the
gabinet and ia tie fieid, become unpopular—in proportion as
exXperidnce, that test of the integrity of principle is discarded
and wild and obscura visions of ' fedral pulicy substituted, in
the same proportion dd es it become the sucred duty of every
honest patriot to reduuble his exertions, to use every means
consistent with honour, and truth to insure the success und
advancement of his political maxims. We confess that we
should fee) an honest pride to discover in our native Stute
symptoms of Jommn convalescenc e surrounded as she 1s by
the munia Avistocratick federalism now raging with
such violence. - No duty imposed by Divine Providence on
man is written in more solemn and legible characters than
this, that duving perilious times our exertions in a good cause
must be. redoubled and unabated. In the eusy hour of nation
al prosperity, when Providence ombuuponu'r‘ little more is
Jeft for mortuls to do thun-to enjoy with gratitude 'such fa
vours. On the other hund it is both cowardly and pusillanis
mons, and a sure évidence that we are unworthy of such ben
edictions, if we fail to cantend for them during the season of
adverisity, Heaven scemed to have loaned us @ Wasnivo
ron thet we might' justy uppreciate the benefit : und now
that he has left us, 0 the reward of the well deserviug,
and noihing but bis ptmplu remain for us te. follow, it is
ovr solemn snd imperious duty te support them both by pre
copt and example. = Rely upon it Gentlemen you ure deceive
ed by his opponems~sgrossly deceived, und it requires not the
tonye of inspiration hmﬂ«:y that a remission of your ef
forts will testify this to your sorrow. Those of our
fviende who are cmulu for the support of measures niore
prompt, decisive and energetick are bound by their dh:-a.
to such p to support the mﬁ It is not
- o _prudence of pa to put all to the haz-’
ne whev there is u more %l:hno‘oﬁ
It au hatequipose of temper so in our
S Da ot e e T
alv be ase in this to be follow
o ‘..mm united by no ;rmln but ons, and
‘What s 10 :mc-r-l;: wcw ‘
have their divisions, their subdivisions and their sub-sed di.
visions of inderest.to geatify® md the moment they aré ducs
So far then frort reparation having been made for the
bloody aggression oh the Chesupeake frigate, thut attuck, as
the matter stands ut present, is'not even disavowed.
’ “ LET THE GALLD JADE WINCE.'
THE appeurance of .xcellency, Governour Fen.
ner’s letter, to the Citize hode - Island, in the Phenix
of the 31st ult. p , slarm und comsiernution a
mong the federulists. T untehances were expressive
of wdignation and desj r movements of a determin
ation to do something to 1 e upon Hlis Excellency for
daring to contradict their wers, and manifesting to the
‘people his disupprobution gheir. prox. Zhe printing of
their prox was suspicnded in fie of their papers in this town,
they held caucus after ca Xpresses were sent te dif.
ferent parts of the state, to séfywhether it were not possible,
with some hope of success p attack the governour ; but
ulas ! the messengers returne{ with woeful faces, their re
port was : % Federalism 1s weiged in the balance and is found
wanting.” To complete ﬂ'tei?bmay, they beheld the ¢ R-.
publican banner unfurled” and laving trivmphantly. in New-
Hampshire and Mussachusetyf and the play of St. ‘George
and ‘ederalism descending inlisgrace. Thus situated, in
stead of taking courage fromjespairy and robbing defeut of
its disgrace by a bold and nmjy contest, they have the mean
ness und pusillanimity aghigg come out with the same head
to their prox, and cant wbowt heir “ moderaiion and forbear
ance.” As much as we ablif their political sentituents, we
musttup{u, still more, ll3' meanness and hypocrisy,
In last Saturdey’s Gazett the same picce [ perceive is in
the Newpaort Mercury of tßsame day) the Governonr’s jet
tor is published, accompankl with « remerks” that fill nearly
two colums, in which the viter lubours to show that the Go
vernour's letter is of no s@ of consequence, one way or the
“other. ‘I is strange that ishouid recuire so much’ exertion -
to pull dewn a mere man gatraw ! - Yhe writer acknowled.’
ges that at firs? this letter reated some c/arm “in his party,
but be now tells them it is mere scare-crow, and that they
may: resume their depredions in the Republican ficld with
out fear of injury.~=That)e Governour's letter is not so ex
plicit, but that they may Lntinue their misrepresentations
and lying, and be believed ond, as a specimen of his own
talent in this way, he has)e assurance and impudence to in
sinuate, in the face of thiletter, that the Governour is net
averse to their prox ! 1
L This prox has as mangames as a Chamelion has colours:
the governour has den"ﬂl it,by calling it the federal prox ;
but says this writer “ thc®s no federal prox,"” and therefore
the Governour could ¢ Y been represented as having
pledged “’3{, to suppothe federal frex,” and the declaru
tion of the Governour at such a representation is fulse,
amounts to nothing. Ths would he endeavour to persuade
the people, that the om he acknowledyres to possess u
@ cool and comp edgment,” would ﬁclﬂen’n?‘nﬁ
down and write a lette® the citizens of the Swte without
any !msudmlc .ﬂrwﬂlﬁm«y meaning !
Wil the people believhint the Governour thus intended to
s sinking |
T What MM?}"’"C when he speaks shont the
Jfoderai prex ? M g 0 an tiie repuédican prex.
* Witness the division and sub.division between President Adam’s
and the famous Alexundria Hamilton, &ec. &e. &e.
t The federalists during their reign of terror and irß‘luticc have not
or’y »xpelled the State, but every town officer fiom office.~Mecrciless
puvier!
10th Sen.
rnfnl in their common ohject these differences wiil -arise.
And shall it be said that such a disconnected heterogenceus
and ircoherent mass is competent 1o et with energy «nd ef
fect as one man, and tha: their opponents, associated for one
common principle, cainot ! We hope this reproach will nev
er light upon our friends. The times reguire premptitude
and despatch, unanimity and concert, and that liberal confi
dence, without which no party can exist for uny salutary pur
pose, although destitute of all these essentiuls, it may, and in
fact does exist for destructive purposes alone. We thus ho
nestly delivered our sentiments with that decency and free
dom ‘becoming freemen, and in so doing we can with the same
frankness declare that we are no pimps for officet nor panders
to the political caprices of our countrymen.
Citizens of Rhode-Island, the result rests with you—in
your hands is now in some measure deposited your own po
litical destiny : use the high and dignified privilege in a man
ner that will shew you to be worthy of the gift.
2d Sen.
4th Sen.
7th Sen.
ssth Sen.
6th Sen.
3d Sen.
Bth Sen.
9th Sen.
Ist Scnator, JEREMIAH B. HOWELL, Esq. Providence.
REPUBLICAN PROX.
SAMUEL EDDY, Esq. Secretary.
~Supposters of the National Government.
CONSTANT TABER, Esq. General Treasurer.
JAMES BURRILL, Jun. Esq. Attorney-General.
« ¥FOR TNE RHODE<ISLAND REPUBLIC AN,
4, . —————— A
ISAAC WILBOUR, Esq.
JAMES FENNER, Esq.
- WILLIAM REYNOLDS, Esq.
THOMAS WESTCOTT, Lsq. Warwick.
DANIEL BABCOCK, Esq.
DANIEL MOWRLY, Jun. Esq, Smitificld.
OLIVER GARDNER, Esq. Northkingstown,
JOSEPH BRIGGS, Esq.
WILLIAM WATERMAN, Lsq. Jchneton.
WILLIAM PECKHAM, Jun. Esq. .
: A Southkingatown,
ISAAC BARKER, Esq.
LIEUTENANT.-GOYERNOUR,
HIS EXCELLENCY
GOVERNOUR.
HIS HONOUR
1810.
Middletown.
Hopikinton,
Newfiore.
Bristol.
This is a standing maxim of Federal policy, and was publickly avow
ed by one of them u fow davs since. That the Federalists are not ace
tuated by principle but by interest, is self-evident. The least attentive
observer will easily discover their favourite object—their idol, and their
GOD, ‘money. We are informed by an elognent. Federal Orator®, that
“ there is no rlivision among the people now—there wus none then ; the
“ division is between the s und the outs. The ins whnt to kcep i,
“ and the vuts want to get m, and the division is not 's6 much Among
“ the people, us it is among those who wont the PEOPLE'S MONEY -
“ and they now unde stand this thing very well, aud fiuve found that
“ the (‘ucstion never has beea in veality, how much of their money
‘“ should be spent—but who should have it=not how the government
“ should be administered—but who should administer iteman(l NOL how
“ many offices should be CREATED—but who shoild FILL them™ .
This portraiture of Federal views is conclusive~it wus drawn by the 1
GIANT of Fedcral policy, who knew their eorraption, and ihe sole obe :
Ject of their pursuit. Should we require u farther idustcation s a proof’
of interest being their so'¢ object, we aré to recollect with what une
wearied zeal & certain gendeman c pander for o£:¢ ) hastened 1
Providence last week, with a view of being putinite the new State
as General Trevsurer, X
* The Speech of Elisha R. Potter, Esq on the 19th December, 1809, '
FEDIUS HOC ALIQUID QUANDOQUE AUDEBIS.
We are informed that severul new volers on e side of the F "
party are to tpmg‘nﬁ. the « g.maching election, several of
( recently ) haubcen | harg'ég iorii'the rym of their honest
y having cxtefided to them the benefitof the insolvent law. T .
these gentlemén’s present circumsiances excite our. M&'
One of them and his whole £ mily, for years, have beeh supported and
maintained by the munificence of an umiable sister—the other by the
bounty of « I{.ml and doating brothet. L S 2
It would be picasing to the publick, to know from whence shese dos.
ndent gentlenwn have so suddenly risen to. opulence und w
f:it- possibie that the secret service-money of Great-Britain has'
mately found s way into .&‘hrfort. and which hus been lavished
a sdlceted few, to resuscitate their expiring influence ! '
The publick kiow for a certainty, that one of them and his family,
- not six months since, was sapported by the bounty of a benevo‘cn;
- ter—she issdcceased-—und her then weaith, reveited. o that f-& ‘
from which she obtained it. Her wealth, previous (o hér lute inlermare
riage, was not great, comc?uentlysbc could not possess alarge prop
erty, mpependent of what she held and enjoyed upon g life estate
am{ leave it to her surviving brother, We. therefore ask, from w
did this wealthy man acquire a sufficient fund to purchuse a rexl
tothe amount of nearly TWO THOUSAND dcllars, to create hims
voter ! What is his motive and his reward ! 1s it realalized, or is it
in expectation—dcpendent on hope defered. . -
The other -gentieman bas for- years, been solely maintained by
brother, now in ‘Eurcpe, and and in a foreign service. Itis anac
edged fact, he is greatly in debt—and for deﬁl contracted simce his
ruptey. It would be more honourable, as a man—niore to liis it
as x Christian, te puy those debis to the poor and industrioas, te whem
owes them, than squander away that received by a fisterinal bounty,
purchgsing a property to. aid « restiess fuction, and to muke bim od
and lmpicious. R -s¥ ok g bb ol
The federal party stops not here—Evary excrtion is made, and m:
to create voters. One of their sub-satalites, has repeatedly app:d
gentleman, who cumie hiere for the restoration of his héaltly, wnd who.
nOW in a convalescent state, to leave his chamber to aid themin their i
quitous causc—when it is kuowh that the gentieman hss not '
with us a suflicient period of time, to qualify him as s voter. 2.5
Every miscreantthat will promise to vote 3» them i¢ furnished with
real cstate®. Noturies, Justices of the Peace, &c. all voluateer thieir se
vices 10 uid their expiring cause ; but what astenishes us heyond ¢
ception, is to scée the Collector and many of his subalterns, exerting
“and their power to duw and qust that very administrayon
gives them their breadi S ) A
REPUBLICANS ytdm of Rhede.] .’W}
ly submit to these bi —ls there nom will stin c(y:a to
your duty ¢ Must mxyl‘\ﬂ.licdo-nnd ske you, before
you will rise and act! Your supinencss may cost you your liberty—
you may then repine and mourn, but your hewailing and sorrow wiil be
mheuhd;s contemocd—your punishment will then héu:t-\-_vw will
merit your fate, for neglecting those means given you by GOD, .ud your
B e haped the Aengaror of Taxes will not forget these mew created
Voters. : .-y
y ]
5 _
UNDER the editorial head of the Mercury, of March 8
is seen with other moderate retnavks, these words—s left
their own reflections, without extraordinary and artificial exe
citement, the people could not in such a case but do right.
And still this modest paper contains two coluines of artf
and fulse insinuations, to reconciic our state to English tyra
ny. He appeals to state majorities to. justify epposition and”
rebellion ageins: the great mujority of the nutiunal couucil
of the United States. Thus the rebellious resolves of th
state of Massachusetts is called un invisibie chnrch milit.nt. L
But however invisible it muy wppear, it has raised snr) o
Ghost, #s we believe will soon canse tive Persous of the Drae
ma to move off the Stage. He speaks of the disastrous em
ourge. The ems argo truly was the disustrous conse ucnce
of & disastrous cause : the piratical cuptures of the B:nish
navy, which threatened the plunder of all onr property on the
water, and to curry all our seamen into captivity, Tne writer
of this article is a profouisd reasuncr ond a great poditicim ;
he has learncd so far as to know toat the horse druws the
cart ; but such is his credit amd wothority with. bis readers,
tht{'c can make them believe that the cart pustes the herse ;
that Cupt. Humphries was not 10 biame for disciryging s
guns in a given direcnion ; but that the blame Ly ~‘tozether
with one povernment for porving tne Chesapecke in theip
'qo m.& Says Lids Wedler, an the Peuks ol L Ciale
These men thus confess themsslves to be the minority ;
moderaticn therclore would teach them 1o be content to let
the majority rule. But no, they are moderate, honourabloe,
unamehbitious men ; they wunt neither office nor power ; they
are only anxiously keeping themselves in office to preserye
the peace and harmony ol the state ; and, no doubt, of pre
venting the return of those tiies whed the lovers of order
infested our streets with mobs, and hissed republicans at
town-meecting for'voting in fuvour of the Nutional Govern
mwent !=Such hypocrisy eut-Cromwells Cromwell. 4
There is but one otherprex, snd lie must mean thut. or nene.
Can any one imagine that the governcur did not mesn <Dy
prox ! And yet this writer encesvowrs 1o impress this idea
upon the people ; then he gees on 10 insinuate, iy the styie of
Jackson, tﬁu the governour is not averse 1o their prox ; and,
in fact, that be is acrually pledped 1o support it ; for no other
meaning cen fairly be put on the following woirds ;== Unuble
(suys he) to discover the object wt which this ietter wims, (and
which.has probably had much more consequence ascribed 1o it
than the writer intended ) we omit sny consideration of she moe
tives which indueed it. It wonld be unworily of <ur hononr.
able cause, and iuconsistent with cur semtiments of frofiviety
and fair-dealing, to attribute to the aurhor any intention te deny
ancient engagements, or to presvme @ vaviction in him from the
stardard of our muiually pledged fuith,”. The letter of the
governour is a sufficient answer to this, and plainly manifeus
that these men do not consider it % unworthy of their horioure
able causr,” or “ inconsistent with their sentiments of propiviv.
ty and fair-dialing™ 10 assert and insinvate the most impudent
falsehoods. Such being their character, we may judge from
what source their moderation proceeds. There is not one
of them that can lay his hand upun bis heart, and say, with
a clear conscience—+* Had we a reasonable hopre of succeeding
with a clear federal prox, we would still suppiort the one that
we do at present.” 2 b W pintly
“ In voting, men are not to be governed by principle, biut by interess®
Providence, Arvil Tth, 1810,
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