The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-07-18 00:00:00, page 2

merce from this state of insigatticance to
wialch the Amencin name 18 10k, many
have anticipaied relief in the revival of the
Gae, Tand (e renewed glory of the other,from
the appareat spivit of Independmee manifest
ed by the Spanish Colonies of Sonth-Ameri
¢t. They haveg induiged in the fond hope
that eee Jong the northern and southern
M. misplieres will ue united in the bonds of
anity, of friendship, and of freedom=—=that
eombined they may defy the power, and re
veage the tyranny of the Eastern Continent,
that each muy be the gurantee of the other’s
£ 00sy thae their muanal interests may be a
piedie of mutnal commerce, and that their
reciproci waats Wil lniuse lile, vigour, «nd
activity, throughont the reatms of both,ceee
But huve they matucely considered the whole
vast suoject I Hove tuey vedected on tie
OFLZhy LG Progress,and the present situation
of the Spanish Colonies ? Do they beueve
that the incense of freedom can arise in the
blood-stain fieids of M- xieo, of Peru, and of
C.O 2 Toat the posieiity ol Cortez, of
WPizarro, and of Almarro, can cease to op
press I Taw the dnperious grandee will
lower his toweriny: pride,and stoop to the level
of e lowest cigen ' Fhat the haughty
Je suit wilh vesien bis unlimited influence 1=
or the avaricious Moak his anbounded wealth,
for the banartal bilessings of Democracy ?
Tt & people, who from the cradie have
been bound in the chains of bigotey,to toe
car 0l « bloody inmisitions wis ot -onge re
sume the energy of freemen and dare con
tead tor lii)erly ! Tam they wau have Leen
nursed in the lap of superstidious ignor nce,
can in a 4 moment throw off its trammels,
and .m.‘n to thotextendad knowledge of the
RIGUHTSE OF MAN, withont whica Ropublicans
hm '-Vc)uM e l)"‘.\m\)’. and l)' moch \ky CaosS,
‘lrd:r,uml confusion ! Noj; It is not inna
pare thas sulldeniy to change ; it is a 5 in the
¢onstintion of man thus o rise Wl on.e from
thedepras of bigrotied Ignovance vod super
stitious fanwticisim, to the glorious height ol
entightenc independence. Spamish Ameri
ca st still groon in servile dependence on
Lurape, and waste her wealth to' support new
wars in the Eastern World, or become the
victim of domestick feuds, the sport of un
contiraled ambition, and « saerilice lb the jur
rinys contentions of hee huughty aristocracy,
who will amply revenge the altar of private
jealousy, the manes ol the millicis butchered
with ralentless crucity by “ihe Chuldren of
the Sup.” .
ves eofs which then Ly within our own juris
diction and safely mooved in onr own bhar
‘boursiare now grasped by the insati ble hind
Ol powery and used 10 ceek ont and destroy
th: wcan'y remains of Arnerican commbiyee.
Fhose seamen, wao then were dwelling
In the midst of their famiiies and (vicnds,
Thns spurned, thjoered, und insulted, by the
belligerent nations, driven from the rank of
an Independent Connrmy, stripped of the prive
i res of a newtral power, denied the advin
taze of a participation in the Laws of Nations,
ol finding in'no gaverpment_on earth, elther
reciprocal principles or mutual interests—
the T VITKED STATES must recur to he
awn resericces far support, w her own ener
gies for delencc, gd 1o the principles of £ her.
and secare on the hospitle 'shores of
ihete counry, are now either confined in
eczrned v oF Ihe dlog, and adpid us from vthe
dia:t. The policy which ne udopted was that
of fivm wnd dignificd moderation, of fearless
myd kapasiial jostice. At his resignation,
WS povicy was abandoned, and our commer
€.l rights, our honour, and our fuure pros
posly, were abandoned with it. Apart from
odice and trom power we sull view Jrerren
-8o tie patriot, the sage, and the friend of
man, Fhe divergence of his' faine has
op,¢ad tavoughont the academies, the uni
versities, and the ciiles of enligzhtened
Eavope. Those gcientifich institutions, in
*which the most celebrated Prilosophers of
e Nistern Cogtinent, bave sought the re
hown of lcllowsbip, have deliviited to hoa
our ke Sage of the Weatern Wirld, to count
him among their members, and to enroli in
their archieves the honoured name of JEI
FERSON, the g™aty the wisey the guod, .
bo our foreiyn relutions, tae doubts and vre
ecrtiinties which have perptexed the Amer
can Governiment and Peopldy ure now dissi
pited No hope of remedy can now remain
eituer froan the retaruing justice or poiitigal
intevest of the belizerent powers. On the
one hnd we are amused with negociations
waich have no object bt fo protract the re
seantment of an injured people, and the deter
minations of an iosulted govermment. On
the: othery onr remonstrances are treated
with levity, aud our minister with disrespect,
By the one we are deceived by filse arranize
ments, and by treaties; never mtended to be
e<ecuted : by the other we arc invited into
her oorts, and assared of a friendly recep
tiv:, while her oilicers are preéparing to place
the imperial seal of plunder upon onr ves.,
sels, and perfidiousiy grasp them without
the shadow of reason, or the appearance of
a trink, In this view of the actual situation
of our country, the con‘rast, which it pre-
P osons orin prison suips, or wandering, e
baidoned to misery ind wint,in distant climes,
witnout uny resonrce bur beveary, and with.
Oul any means to enable them to revistt the
land ot their futhers, and the habitations of
shetr Liilends.
scats to onr dignificd and commaanding atti
tude dusing the continuance of the X mbarges,
forms the /ost umpie justification of that a
bused meusurey, and cxficrimentally proves
the wisdom, the patriotism and foresigzht of
the illustiions character who proposed .
Tt properiy. wiich then was secure witii
in our own ware-houses ind st onr own dis
posat. 13 00w confiscated and sold in foreign
portsy to feed and enrich our enemies. I'hose
From tais deplorable sitiaation of our com-
THE efforts of the Spanish, to repel the'
power of #ranee, have excited much sprcus
lation. 'nd awaked the various feeltngs ol
mankind. While one po.iion ol tie word
has trembled with anxiety for their success.
anotier bas zeaionsiv desived tooie fatlure,
aid complewe su'jugation. In this (hey heve
veen altogether s wed by paliticdd molives,
To me, however, 'he contest has alwuys
seomed to exhibil, in a striking wanner, the
force: of education, and particular o bis, of
thinking. Taeaw avowed object has been 1
continue the House of Dovchon upou e
throne, and the pirescivauon oo what they
deemed their nativuai ights. Witk thei
monarchy they appedr to have counceted the
idea of diberty. For Feidinapd wnd ecdom,
they Dhave therefors, deeachied theie felds
with blood, und suefiiiced « whole heca
tombs” ol lives upon the altar ol prejudice.
This, I presume, will uppear obvious to every
person whotakes an Linpartial survay ol the site
uation of these infutuated sonsof Boerie. What
will they loose by the chan eof power ? 1
consider nothing., Under the governmefin of
the Bourhon # nnily. they were in a state of
absoiv,t mancipation. ‘Chey mighit be amus
ed wilh the shuadow of some natiagal immuni-
ties in the occasiona) mecting of the Depu
ties. but the substince had imperceptibly van
ished forever. The King swayed the sceptre
of uncontiuied authority, and all wmust yield
imiplicit obedicnce to his arbitrary muudate.
I'he Courts were the creatures of the crown
and the ready organs of toyal pleasure. The
people were doomed to groaa beneath the
ol of enormous tixation===taxation diverse,
nneartain, and suiting the conveniency of the,,
times, It is here the Znouisition, that Norrid™
enine of papal tyranny, is catablished in all
the pomp of infernal cruelty. Within the.
sphicre of this protoiype of gn‘ulumﬂenium.no
person is secure. he nmocent and unsus
pecting are frequently, dragged from thelv
peaceiul repose, und consigined to the m. -
chines of witure, or s¢ntenced to imprisoie
meut and death, without evean being wformed
of the erimes alledged against them. S -
perstition and bigotry here shuke thei= bale
ful torches in globmy triumph. Mental
darkness sits brooding over the mind ; tie
hand of daspousm enthrals the natural enec
rics of the soul. Yety, arpidst these direlul
oppressions, the people have been waught to
believe that they enjoy the invaluable bles
sin, ;s of freedom, and that their government
is bounieous, wise, gracious, benign, und leni
ont v
hey saw thewr late monarch wheedled out of
his erotvn by the arts and imtrigues of the
French Emperoury and Jose il attemptiog to
ascend e relinguished throne, they wrase,
en masse, with all the enthusiasm of injurcd
aumanity, butchered, with unrelenting fury,
Al Frenchmen intheir pawer, and strove, wir
aulghy and ardour, to deive from their ferrito
“iess the troops of the imperial naidn. But
waat was the ohject of their enthesiastick efs
tort I Not the resioraiion of the sacred
. PR T e . g
fuunde ¢ ?.r pindines, aniid the storme o
- war, au,d' tewmpests and ambiion, which
now ravage and couvuise Creaion em——
A merica, pussesses within herseif the sccds
of national greatness, and entire independence
of all other climes. Agricolture, manutac
tures, @nl internal commerce, will, if en
couraged, ruise us to this envied height
But their encouragemciut reets uot on the a
bundogment of our comamercial rights, a re
lapse from our principles; a vetreat from the
st. nd of honour, or a shrinking fear of war.
—No; a depression ef national spirit, an
apthy to the glory ol our country, will de
“stroy the enterprize of our citizens, paralize
the encrries of government and render us fit
subjects for the thraldrom of monarchy and
‘the fetters of bondage. Ii is in vain we speak
of Liberty, if we are unwvilling to defend it ;
in vuin we read the Declaration of Indcfiend
encey if we fear 1o vindicate s principles ;
in vain we cclebrate THIS ANNIVERSAKY, if
we stiifer that. freedam,ol which it is the me
morial, to be trampied on without revenye,and
torn from ws without resistance. Shull we
present to posterily that nheritancg which
we teceived pure from our Fathers, with the
mortgage of dishonour entailed-upon it fem
Shall we hold our commercial and neutral
rightsTihe fruits of vevolwionary victories, as
a charter from foreion powers ? Shall we
teach our children to purchase their rights by
supplication, and their peuce by base submis
son ? Even the royal siaves of picasure ‘
and dih\ip,tiou, who have sat upon the
thrones of Europe; wonld never give up theis
power and rank till their Fopes were crushed
in the field of war, an't the arms of their con
queror had destroved their last resource.
And shall AMERICANS be <uspassed by slaves,
and excelied by cowards 2 Shall Cicizens
tremble, when calied to delgnd their [réedom,
while Subjcts verdiiy ureheath their sword s
to preserve tneir weal'n 2 Nol [fwe st
surrcader our rights, [et them not perisn il
the bostrie canngu as destroved the luse em
blem, f dmevicwn .oy ;o il we must sec
our Inlependenee goune, let 1t be sunk in the
sea of Hlood 3 if we must resicn onr Consti
tntion, let it Le buricd under thé bodies of
onr citrzens, and ivs tuneral cirhies be their des
partmg groans., I these plins ure doomed
to become the whode of shuvery, let every
ficld be ravaged, every onse be hurnt, and
THE LASY RANPARY OF AMEVICA, BE THE
CRAVE P THE LAiT ARLRICAN
Under thése impressions, it was, that when
FOR THY RHODE-ISILAND REPUBLICAN,
EBrarlL:&cn--<-NO. 1L
SPAILN.
AT TR
1 ITMOLFON.
In the “bove nominations. the freemen will
perceive the intercst ol the dilferent purts of
the dßuate consuted, o gl its boge &e and - res
pectability, as a member of the Union, duly
I'C‘,',:\x"!t'd. 'l‘h"y have been made with en
tire unanimity, af @ mature detiberanon, and
extensive en, uiry, Ta propesing the Hon
Mi. Hazakp us a candidate, the wishes and
voice ul the prople huve been obeyed. They
h '\'v'munil--s'ml their confidence in that dis
finguished citizen, by successively elevating
hitn ¢ the most hounourable offices in th.
State 3 and their Repaee sehitalis s L ive confir
med that confidence, by electing him to tie
t ortant statton of spesker o thielr House.
fn this Yise sitaation Lis ablities, candour,ind
'l.'?7¥li.t_v. have been distinguished. His exten
sive information, persuasive elojuence,. an!
Repuhlic.n principles, are well known, and
cannot fail to render him a useful and siin
iy member of tie great couptil of the Wiel
don Ma. BRown,_ the other candidute pri
poted, 15 recommended o the publick confie
dence By a sound judgment, a thorcugh
knmvh-f!v_-o of the iﬂterests and f,.(.”n'gs aof
the people of this State, acquired, by a long
ttentance as .‘t. meoenther ,Of the G¢ neral Ase
se ably, and by his Republican monners and
attechrieuts, Himself a culiivator, and the
DoSsCssor of a l'.tl't;’ landed 'pn\pc.'ty, Nie:
yeomanty of the State caunot Uil & pedcelve
b a nataral Representative ol the Agri
cuaitural interest.. &9 4
The resalt of the late’elecrion of State of
ficers is a 4 happy presage ol a forfunute issue
o the contest which is now to be enterad upe
on, The state ofour pubi'w".: Liifs 'contirms
1 the stronzest mabner ihe grounas :npon‘.
vhich a great ehange in popalad Gpinton has
taken place. The wisdoin of the mun who
advised the laying «n Fmbareo, and now ac
wnowledged by D 3 most Inveterate encinics,
il is proved by the evidence of facts; evi
dence, the conclusiveness of which cainnes he
evaded by the most subiiie arts of sophistry, |
“ I'he great and increasing dangers” to our
chmmerce which were * rescen by Me. Jel
fersony are now /1/r Ly those who despised
and reviied his salutary counci's. All res
trictions by our own government Upon Com
meree have been rewmoveds Dul is it nwow
Sree P And what is morve, and wost of all,
are onr impressed s€amen relewsed ! Is the
murder of our citizens in our own waters,
punished, or eten apologized for ! Becuuse
we had no » lence to bear the inconvenience
of an Embuar;o, nor spirit to defend our rights
by arms : have we peuce and safety ? What
huve been the froits of all our submissions ;
of the violent opposition and risings against
our own laws ; of the weak and wavering
policy, which-has been forced upon us by the
temporary prevalence of (what 1s fulsly cal
led) federalism, in the eastern Stetes ! Thanks
to the sober seuse of the people we have es
caped a British alliance and a division of the
Union. These rocks of Seyiia and Charyb
dis we have avoided. All the States, except
Conunecticut and Delaware, ure pow Republia
can. Let themn remauin se, and our country
vill yet be saved.
In opposition to these cendidates Messes,
Jackson & Potter have again presented them.
selves before the people. Unmindinl of the
circumstances uuder which they were elect
edy their friends agaln urge their pretensions
with as much zeal wud wrdoury ws il tucy had
not formerly succceded through delusion and
miscepresentation only. The tinles when
the tales of Prench inTuence, Virgioia influ.
ancey perpetual Embarge, &e. could for .
moment deceive the freemen, have passed 2-
way. Nor have the votes and conduct of
these Represent itives in Congress.contrinuted
to exslt them in publick opgion. They hove
been hurtied along in the torrent of indiscrim
inute.opposiiion to % easures propused for
the gootrc:f ‘our country. They have strenu
ously oppos¢z‘ every mode ol resistance pros
posed arainst the unjust aggressions of fore
ein powers. They have ?he\m by their votes
on the resolution respecting the conduct ob
the British misister Jackson, that thqy are nn
84 W be the Representatives of a peopie iree
“where unanimously selecied as candidutes
Jor Kepresentatives in the twel'th Con
gress gf the Cnited States.
‘Por ﬁses uf mar-—hot thelr ¥ muan,., &
’ the shackles of slavery, and th reating &‘:._
Lanowed wen.ple of Spenlsd dberty, Lut the
estabiisionment of the son of Chartes 'V, upon
the thione instead of tie brother of Aapioleon ;
to mainiuin the iron swav which had so lony
hung over their devoted hewds 5 to preserve
unmwoved the rivets of their chiing, snd thiek -
ch the gloom of ntellectual night. By
could they bave viewed themselves as they
really were, a nation of abject sluves, they
would not have telt so much interested re
specting the wansler of regul power. Whot
miatters it 1o thew whether the Bourbons o
the Bonupartes wuve over them the scongre of
despotism I It is prebably that their conditio
will not Le worsied by the new order of
thinegs. Why thep enguge in all the horrours
of war to prevent the changc of tyrams !
As consistent would it be for a bind of south
ern Negroes 1o rise und wage a blondy con
test in consecuence of their owner «ttempt
ing o dispose ol them to « new master,
Ata Republican Convention Idlden a
Nesoport on the 21st of Tune last.
Nathaniel Hazard, I'sq.
Nathan Brown, | sq.
OF JOHN ICN,
NEWPOKYT, AND
By the PredidenieChampeigne to our
real trignds 5 and roa/ puin 1o our sham friends,
I'l: c'/:l(‘ Cratur—-'- Thc \;Ul'l(‘l’sllt\ai h()l)c’;'
—th¢ vivtue of a free people.
C By Mr. Foudworth=—"lhe eneniics of onr
Art and institutioneMuy every oppesor of
cur rulcs (mere cioplers in the world) who
seek 1o mise scvaiod v i this Society, to
break duwm onr regnlarinns, and barier the
principles of this institation, however cone
spicucus thoir figuresy, or respectible theip
chwiractersy soon find that our reguler worle
mer will point at themy with contempt, and
register theny in our fage i und shouid theg
persist in their ervouey and continne to impose
on their brethren, thev will be cilled tn tha
bar to enswer Proper in(crro“l(.a!!on.? re{‘w'ing
<he marter ; when if they fuil o jusidfu ti g
conduci, op coree? the procedure, may the,
be pulled by the nose, d:at on the ribs, cows
signed to the devily and throww into Aell,
By Mr. Burbidg —='ne memory of Johu
Faust,"the great inventor ofour art, by \yh‘ém
ir.® cnuity, science and. civ'hization have Levg
extended to every corner of the earth—May
his name, theongh the medium™ of the part
of his invemtion, be preseeved from oblivion.
when the marble monuments of conoverom &
and tyvants yet unborn shall have crumbled
into dust.
The HNations of FurcpraeMuy a generval
peuce sool put a ficrcod (o thelr squabjics.
[To be drunk stancing.) 7he immorzal
Washing one=") hougt lis écdy is kid in the
cogfny bis spivit hos assepded Ibove the srars,
«uid the fume of his viitue finds no paralled
i uny secrican of the globe.
4th July, 177€~Muy eveyy friend to libers
ty nore it with adn Srationy and ficint'to it w 8
the mdex of ColumUr’s plory.
The American FaiveMuy they encourage
our arty by making rmAressions 0f ten® ness
on its professours, und give frogfs of regurd
that requive no revision . :
tvery drue son of Cobumbioe—Sooner then
be tmfiosed upon by ahy foreign power 0@
carthy or relinguish. his tizie to lLerty, be
will draw lis degger in its detence, and con
ueror die trees
Lur ITvpcgranhicaprechren throughout thy
Uidima=DMay they neler want for Jae jubs, jud
fuscsy amd 12vnlar piy-
American Indcpopdenci=—*¢ the fpiearl of
preat pricc”=We will never be driven from
its delence by Longlish or Frenchecancn,
Accounts have been received av New-York,
from Tenenfle, of the arvival at that islaud oy
two Spanish and one English.men of wur
from Cadiz, which they left the Ist June, and
bring intormajion that the Margnis Romuna,
witis 80,000 men, was on his march in the
rear ofthe French army towards Cadiz,which
city was in high spirits, and under no fears of
being compelied 10 a specedy surrender. ‘
The above ships bruught to Tenerifie 800
Fiench prisoners 3 but the inh.”.hi::apus ol the
isliid was so incensed against them on afe
count of the sucrileges and atrocities com
mitted in Spain, that they embodied and
tureateied 1o massacre them all ; but were
prevented by a body aof regulur Spinisg
troops ; not however, before two respectas
bie Frencl inhabitsnts had fallen victins to
the fary of the populace.
Thetaccouats add, that the Canary Tsimds
were to_be formed into a vice-Kingdom, up
der the Duke del Purque, who, with & body
of troops, wus momently expected at Tenee
riﬂb. . : -
i=™ There is probably some mistake
this estimating Romend's foree, Our p
vious acconnts from Spiin redder the amo
vere spoken of, tot lly improbable.
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themsclves to be impied upon by overbeers
iny ClMPloyers, nor tipwi into /i by buiches,
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FEWOKK, JULY 6.
Our National Jubib Wascelebrated at N.
Tork by the Typcgpiney, Society ;- from
o varicty of c*“n“ﬂ“)“@, the [ollowing
re selected.
md’iadc'pcndq, and who w.eap t; rema«in 6.
fLwonld be anygy e 0 e understanding
~ad patriotism e people, even for in in.
SNt w supposey, tiey would give their
sufiruges to UCoien. Let them du'y re
flect upon the Sahy Ihe patiote—uind of the
world ; and they “not long hesitate in a
choice of men and Yisures. Let the friends
ol the country be d":m in ciffusing infor
mation, #nd in checking, o spread of mispe
presentation, and the "t cinnot be doub.-
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