The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-03-28 00:00:00, page 2

FREEMEN,
YOU are again called upon to give
your free suffridges, at the énsuing election
of our State Officers, for those 'men, who
have evinced by their uniformity of conduct,
their firm and undevidting attachment to the
Tiberties and welfare of our beloved cowntry,
and wlrwill on «ll occasions manifest ller
dislike of and @pposé at «ll times, a disposi
tion on the part . of eur political enemies, to
‘Sutroduce and disseminate, amongst us a spir
& of (yrantiy @ ustice.
* ICts in vilny B deny, and éxperience has
Cwufficiently ed the assertion, that there
‘are’s set of mel in this country decidedly in
| Sroigal to the true ‘lnteresuvsg happiness of
hi’fﬂﬁly country under Heaven, thut can
*kﬁ. of u Republicun form' of Gévernment,
mmmm by intrigue and seditivus
e _againist the present administration w
‘serluce the people intn a helief that dur ru-
Qery are &vOlim&lnc“ned towards the ty
4Rt ‘Nupioloon ; too artfal to come forward
akdly und avow their attachment to Great
s | qmmt‘bat reems intefwoven
A{th their érintonce, they endeavour insidious
ly to'kidle their datk gnd ruinous ?‘hm, under
‘the fulee and infup churge of French in
“Bueince, flattering’ themselyes a majority of
“the’ people will aid andl usdlst thyie nefarious
‘esigns ; bul te people will be duped no
*ldgtb;,t)ﬁ:{.' k' hias been thrown off, und
Aligy-dppedr Jatalisie trie colours ; the re
‘oo vos 9} the', L glelature of Missachypetts,
. ‘1"-’;2‘3’3"# {';: ! "W t ‘ of J‘Ck”&h the British
M ‘;",, s pproving of the conduét of
“Hh w{} y olearly, shews their ‘determin
wtldi :E;M o, 5. 4y Tneult"olelid twards
s frofp that Gluingifulihorgh the insult itselt
SUR g abui ol SR S T
R r AR s Wk dewledged by
5.3 vegtren, shomld you notwiilisending this
of tiberfy Temuine Ji 'your ‘bokoms, if & wish
‘thut vurgovernment should be administered
‘with impartiulity and'a strict ‘régard to nd
‘tlobkl Bupenr, you will. give your voluntary
‘supj | .W)}wubﬂm‘d%t.' -ﬁ;&n
‘whe W c‘g‘ deceive you, and Who ate pledg--
#d to suppott’the Constiturion, against all the .
TR M RN BT s,
‘muchinations of itsenpnies. .ok
(0 phoM THE PROVIDENCE PHENIR,
o RTAE F AT g B g AT B NI T ; i ) e Rl ey
4-'-"-};""'3“;:? R - b "’"" " R w-,\r' ‘
o ST A ”&ODEISLAND |
YO THE EREEMEN QF THE'
o LBAVE in“ the Providence |
AR woclmlon o w 1 thate, mal
e ..t:_tmﬁm‘:l Pros,” qf'?;nqul. Offi- -
‘ceps farthe ensbing year—and it i§ also sta
e a,.._:ﬁ F:nﬁu animeity, and
ot W to ﬁﬂ“fﬁm prox hds
Ao this Prox, which is declared to be
U composed of mgﬁn differing in poliu
eal mg:ﬂb . tb: the .L%l:niht-ﬂa\‘rem
and peven *o?me rn, called” Federahsts.
pur and § bl's there are Republicans
Now, I sm one of those wha ‘caninot see
W&c is 0 be preserved. from the con
valeion ('pm:{ efiiriiy bya Senate, %o
sloar a m@jority of which is to be compased
_of one phriy——ind that too the party, who,
_ynder thik specious plea of mederation and
clouk of I ricy, have engrossed to them-
Solves, all——or weurly all—the important offi-
Som elvil aid military, in this Stateswho
‘mm every Republican Juggc‘..
1 1y Sheriff, ca of the £uce. and No
‘wry Publicke—cvery man who had dared to
gpeak uad ve# In favgur of the measures a
-3 ‘\'w hy olir.own mwment to resist the
vile aggrevsion: tigy powers. '
* _Are there may of y weak as to be de
‘QMJWJ’ pices of men, whose ae
othe . contradict ‘thelr| worde—whose whole
mm had y in view the keeping
“alive pavty spirit, In order ta dicect it against
‘the ation of ithe United States—y
_'ﬁqtb. ciples the constitution——a
,“F tthe rights and thip dearest interests of
" Nasibhe veil shall b 4 stript from before
th glcal idal of impdsture ! The people
st _: “the foul features{which are conceal
‘ od Moder its shude. - They will call to mind—
that his is th b-pirty, whe, when in full pow-
Jastampied to stop theirpmouths with a se
h‘“‘ g who, when out of power, en
< Aasendredte dacite them 6 & forcible resis
“fance of ‘the laws, which cavld have-ended in
“warhing Uit civi! war had if been persisted in.
: o they Meld the reighs of the federal
sernihont, thdy deerued ik a violation of the
. o, m‘&n giolunmh to as
wme the R’y of upon the con-
Jetiunaloey ar'the untc :fhnd\l"ofacu
of "‘::‘ g¥et now it i 3, nothing for them
“aothing fi¢ them. 1o refuse to take nicasures
to ¢re “ﬂiﬁ‘ . to laws, ‘:‘::
tbey themsalves do mot to deny to
" constith -y them to swell the
tn to
powers, eporating upoy tje messures of
¢ IR T ke -
s ot A
o-ﬁ Fat ity fo this, that
32 RS oINS B L v
FOR THE RHODE~ISLAND REPUBLICAN,
To the Republican Cifizens of Newpors,
Dilcellany.
ed the the same a(%umpgm of our 'd“f“"g%
ces long before, But when Britain digavow?
ed her Minister, they turned round, justified
her for refusing to execute his acts and char-,
z:d our own government with duplicity, with
ud, partiality and idsificerity. ‘Will you
support such nier’ in their inconsistent’ con
ducte~in th.cir eddeavours to make us ridicy
. lous and contemptible in the eyes of foreign
nations-to induce those nations to think that
they can plunder und murder us—-und pfier
wards insult us by mock offers of reparation ?
God forbid, that uny people should be sor stiie
Pid, afier being so eiten betruyed and deceiv
vd, us to rush ionto thé ‘arms of those who
have betruyed and deceived them ! For! my
self, 1 believe better things of by ' country
men.~lf then, Fellow-Citizens, you wish te
sce the country united in the ties of peace
and concord—flourishing at home and rese
pected abroad, give your votes for men who
. will rally aud stipport round your national yov
ernment=-for the rea/ American Prcx--a(,tho
head of which is, AT RN ;
" HIS EXCELLENCY . - .
[ JAMES FENNER, Esq
.+ .y - GOVERNOUR, - - \
Madte, NG AND :
L u THE HONOURABLE
L ISAAC WILBOUK, Esqi /i
. W AJEUTENANT-GOVERNOU -
i ‘ A FREEMI VS -
.« drom the Trenton TRUR AMERICAN, =
"C 72 British Pravocations 11 5
UL Frem Migh Fedetal Aulonity.’
_{ * James A, Bayard, Senator fron: Delawarg,
iha Speech 'wpon thg Voluateer bill, ufier e
_numerating the injuries und insuits received
from France, which, he says, we shouid not
have borne had it not been far the acts of vi
-3:« and injustice, éxperienced from Bri,
! !‘“ﬂl‘t{:ﬂ the conduct of the fatter: ™
' Bhe alpo [Britain], hivt fubrished us sunses 9
, m“&&‘ﬁ%’&m it. "B m‘wﬁ
0 vhe mrﬂin of her ows" ot
PR
. ar en
g the o »‘a- \l‘dehdbt’.' leaves us n’cmmerc
Mﬁ by ‘the miserable tenure of hef,
- good _Qur seamen shé forcibly takes from our.
onw&nu upon the guos of her
mun ylf they refuse to enter into her service,
»‘( upon these subjects, or any one of
them, is cause enough of war, whea the uation is'
disposed to go to war.” b _
"We hope, after this, we shall hear no, man
asserting that Britain has done us no esseniial
injury—=or that the Democrats want a war
with England-for, if Mr. Bayard spcaks the.
- truthy such assertions must be fulse. i
‘ Impressed Seamen. ™
~ Federal printers are in the habit of palliate
ing all the °“""s°~' and injuries inflicted up
on us by the British ; und it is therefore per
fectly consistent. with their general conduct,
_for them to vepresent the number of Ameri
cans iﬂnwo the British service as in
significunt and: unworthy of attention. The
fact, howevery is not 0. The following ex
tract from & report of the secretary of state,
to congress, Feb. 28, 1808, will give some i
dea of whe number then heid in their service,
and that number is believed to have greatly
increased rather than diminished.
Js!
“ From the returns in the office, it would
‘“ appusry that 4,228 Amcrican seamen had
“ been impressed into the British service,
“ since the commencement of the war, and
“ that 936 of this uumber had been dis
“ charged, leaving in that serviee, 3,292.
. Gen, Lyman, [agent for American seamen
“ at London] in « letter, ‘dated on the 21st
¢ QOct. 1807, estimates the American sea.
“ men now detained in the Brldzh service,
“ at a rumber grearly deyond what is here
# stated, but he does not give the data on
¢ which his estimate is made.”
loud in their praies of Mr. Madison, for the
promputitude with which he had met | tite over
turea of the Dritish government—tbey des
clared that Mr. Jefferson might huve obtain-
Add two the sbovevuamber, those whose
cases have never reuched thg department of
stute=and those who have been impressed
since the above report was made, and there
would probably be an amount of from five ¢o
ten thowsand Ameéricans who have been im
pressed into the British service, and are at
this moment detuined in the British mvr
who ave miwde to fight her battles aghinst
the nations of Europe, and may be forced to
assist her efforts to subdue their éwn coun
try ! L ey ibid. .
The federal party have always boasted of
:o‘i:c:}mn:p&md%h;:
. EONE 50 far as to assert, | Was
umm%qurm How, far
this '-cg::um‘ry unprejudiced cittnen will
judye. moment they witt tell you thag
the people are their “ own werst engmigs”.;.
that they are not capable of munaging theis
Sl tor , .
they have sent to the Ben ite of the U. States
8 pwsitical Hotspure—a duglliste=a man whe
pushed on the foremost in all the violent
measures of the reign of terror—=whe voted
for the: sedition law—who voted six und thir
ty times, in opposition to the will of the peo
ple, for Aaron Burr, us President—and who
dues not possess even the coufidence “of the
moderate of his own party ? _ |
- When the arrangement was concluded in
April last by our Government with Mr. Ers
kine the British Ministef, these men were
FEDERAL CONSISTENCY.
ov s N
¢ ﬂ(«\': s
3o o>
- Thebre is one idea which has been -for a!
long time propagated; and which many very |
sensible men in the Uniled States most firm
ly believe~viz.——wthat Great -Britain cannot }
much. longer maintain (he war, and that, of i
coursey, she will-sgon be Aumbled,” and be com
fielled by necessity ta do us'justice. " ‘This idea
has made such an impression on the minds of ‘
many persons, thut they think it is only ne- .
cessary to wait, to have a little patience, and |
thit, withaut a single effort on our part, every
thivg ‘will turn out right. The misfortune of
this opinion is, that it keeps us in a continual |
state of indecision, of inactivity, and makes
us rely more upon our stars than upon our
abilities, = In a wise government, as Jittie
'should be left to chance as possibte. “ The |
doctrine of fatality may do in religion, but it*
‘will never answer in politicks. A system
should be distinctly marked out and steadily
Jrursued. Al party clamour should be disre
garded=—our le;islators should act as if they
‘were writing their lust will and testament,
reekless of whom it pleased, or whom it of
fended=—=-according to their sober, serious,
‘and sincere convictions. How can the Re.
publicans forget that they are the majority ?
How can they forget that it is the business of
a majority to acz wnd of a minority ‘o shugfe ?
How can they forget that ‘the game of the
‘majority is ¢oncord, and that the gume . T the
minovity is discord. [#6id.]
. The federalists of Mussachusctts are very
cunning men indeed, and quite as valiant as
ther' afe cunning. They pompously pro
clain, in the first place, that the Republican
Administration hus a design of going to war
with England ;iand, in the second place, they
sagely resolve that it is not expedient to go
to war with that power. As New-England
is famous for her seminaries of learning, we
“are surprized that the gentlemen have drawn
‘their conclusicn before they huve established
their premises. We know of oniy one spe
cies o? logick by which their procedure can
be {un’;ﬂed. and that is the .logick of Don
Quixotte, who very gravely decided that the
‘wind-mill was a giunt and then heroically: as
sanlted it. This is certuinly a very corveni.
ertt method gl provuring & reputation for sa
gucity, if for nothing else, as it is only re
quisité to reeolve upon paper,. and - the thing
is done. Whilst .they ate in this way, the
federal legislature of M.ssuchusetts might
as well resolve that the Republicans of the
‘United States had determined to sce the town
of Boston on fire, and by another resolution
insist that it was expecient to put the fire
out.. This would be following uwp the game
they are playing at présent, apd would just as
clearly prove they are no incepdarics as their
lure procedings’ est blish that they are. patri
ols, But we humbly hope that we live in an
age abd in a country, when and where we may
juilge for ourselves ; und thut we shall not be
¢ompelled to believe that the Myon is made
out ¢f Connecticut Checse bécause the Es
sex Jumo declare it.to be so hy =n act of leg
islature. - . { Vir, Argus.]
How degrading must the leaders of the
federal part ?pcur, even in their own eyes,
‘when they zn ‘the conduét of Juckson, which |
‘they have incessintly justified disapproved of
by his government. )l'be annals of diploma-
Ty caomot fmish wo instance of such barefa
ced impudence, as this courldy minion has
been guilty o'. Did the « Brivish party in
America” possess the least sense of shame,
they would not have dared to become the.
champions of an insuliing envoy, who will
soon quit our shores, and bear with him the
€xecration of every troe™Anmierican.
PR S DN TR [ Isid.)
- I e——
. S When capas among a crowd are thrown,
& Lach villain’s sure to take his own.”
' A gentleman in New-Hampshire, writes
t;‘:q'nid to write) to a Jacksonian editor
ston, respecting the late correspondénce
between President Madison and Gen. Stark.
Some gentleman siyles Me. Mudison’s letter
“ executive impud.nce ! for furnishing « a
fresh stiniulus to the malignancy of an old
dupe, to utter his vulgar asperities against the
federal party.”. Now, general Stark does pot
say one word about the ** federal party.” He
?'?euh only of an “ internal British faction.”
‘The New-Hampshire gentleman, however, is,
confident the general meant Ais party, and is
n:mu‘dingly. % Pt that and that toge
ther. - : .
"hl OLD DUPE, AN'D TRE SUPERANT A
‘ . m D“'.-”‘”.”
These are the epithets applicd in the Cen
ﬂ?l to that intrepid and veneruble hero, Gen.
STARK, who.huve~.l=:n oconduct at
Bennington, cantributed so essentially to the
hogour and independence of our country
this is-the mode in which that hero is treated
the trofhice of whose vietory avew hang in our
3'o. Chamber, as a veproach for the base
- of &w.& j« the natural ex.
: of towards the chumpion |
our _ the soldier of urh‘-.ca
%ﬂ.& uppotring the. Scn of u Tory. '
ﬁ‘ R QW &OW t“~) :
4...‘_"\'". : - i
ovn affuive. und wonder how they Lave the au
dugity 1o ttink and act for thgmsacives's And'
the next, especiafly if any grand object s in
view, they will call upon them to rise in de-.
fence of their rights, extol their virtues, and
constitute thew sole judges of nutivnal con
cerns ! Admirable consistency !
; ( NMewtarnporet Whig.)
+ FROM THE BDALTIMORE EVENING POST.
A FALSE IDEA.
WIZARDS !
’.4" 2. L A o .’M
10 THE REPUBLICANS OF THE STATE OF
. . BMUOGDE-ISLIND. ~ . ,
T
THE day, thé impoitant doy of elcction is at honds
On: that dayy if Uue 1o yourselics, yoy Dy secwg
vour re-ancendency in this Btate. Itis yours of ngf.t.
You are @ vest majoricy—you mike at.least twe
thirds of the people of this State. This wasevinced
in every suug'R_L you liad with your opponcnts,
whilst you were united and acted together. How
has it happened that you haae lost your asc ciduncy,
and been deprived of your rightful lad und rule in
the councils of the state ! You are resdy with the
answer. It came from divisions among yourselves,
anfuhy fcmented Ly the enchy, by “H'Jl"“ -y
sphit inte yecth ; and one £tted and played ol sguinst
the other, to the luin of Loth. The fedevshow Ly
dividing, governcd you, and goveip the stjte. Dy
this art and men:penent the few have trinmphed
over the many. 118 is & painful acknowlediment,
but truth snd the pullick ¢ use require it 1t reads
a lesgon of the last jn portance, #ld which }kp\fblx
euns niust rever forgy = Lodted they saind, dinided
“they Jali! Disenion mwust be wateled wnd gum‘,ﬂ(d
agsinat, efen irits-causes. The d.proaches of the
enemy, in whatever specious guise, must be the sig
nal of alarm ; union nust be the watch wog, ard
the rallying point of ke puin Al perserid fecl
ings, and E}ri\ ale regards wust be sacrificed Cntie
altar of union. . : Tt ad
Experience, the best of teachers, has decply. im
pressed on your miinds. these 'mioh entous Uil s,
‘The mn;zmce is, *bat you. are. now Lwppily le
unitedd, ang déteimived o temsih po. You have
nuw only to comne lorward in your fubl strergth, wd
you put yourselves inve reqpossession of the guyern.
ment. %our mUmbers, it rdlied-ii d brought %o the
ficld, muke the victory certain, - Let every nuponsi
der.the event as depending on - hinself, anc be alert
at his post. Let no one muke'to binmelf the Lizy
excuse, that there will be hee encugh - without
him ; wnd that he may mind hig ewn ‘business, or
plcasure. - You hiave every motive of interest, and
every obligation of duf)'. w exertion, 10 th¢ Wmost ¢x
ertioh, of Ihis occesion, In a domestick, or state
oint of vicy the change will be interesting 1o you':
[:ut itis nwch meie desigs ble on pulionsl ceuh’h-n—
--tions. Cur nitional 2 bts and inteacsin, sre m
he hands of the wational geverument, To ¢nuble
the cdministration to pet with n‘!:!’ -and efeet in
providing for these inteiests, and gsserting those
rights, it is necesiry that the federpl srm skould be
strengthencd b{, the support oktbﬁ state goyern
ments. Itis obvious'y mipossible for the Moderal
povernment to assert our b ticnal Tights, so leng “is
it is eoumteracted by tle state nhctstn‘a'\m “any
consideruble poruon of them. Experience %eﬁm'—
ed g;st the fuderaliste, got sysicmuticslly on'the prin.
ciple of gpposition, without execption of eusés, tnd
without regard to consequences. ““Fheve ¥ not'a sin
gleinstance in which ihé goveinment has .ttcu;gud' o
obtein redress for our violateo ri?u,ia;wbk-b e fed.
eralisis, ns bedy, have not gide againsf (heir coun
v, and endeavoured to eripple thieir government.
They have made many gratuitous aitempts 10 involve
the governwent in embarrussments. | Un the ocohsicn
of Rees's resolutions, they did their u!mM\g‘
Ahis country into a war with Spain. . On s late'occa
;mniti::cy b“rleu shewn that M."Mum_ﬂkz';‘at
reaking u umion lo’ sceomplhi %‘ 19
views, ’l‘b: federalists cannot P:G:& s peri
cious cffect, only through fhe'mn of. ¢ hm.
emlnﬂ“;; . Hence theit ei gervides to posdeds them.-
seives of state autherities. Hende o pnue!ct
importance of their exciysion, " T “'M duty o pnt
them down, . You owe it:to your ‘condhén country,
to keep out of their handa’ the- sthre’ governtvert.
By “electing a republican legislature, you will foruty
the federal drm, and ensble it o iiﬂs the power of
the nation with effect, in maintaining the rights of the
nation. . But 10 elect, or 1o suffer to be elected, « fc d
eral legislature, it to garvison your fors with the
troops of the encmy, . . i 3 0
Believe me, )’o:'t.vc an important: stake in the de
po.-ndnixj election ; it ofight,und Iﬂmgrﬁo?-ﬂ‘ will,
rouse all your energies. The destinies of onr coupe
try, the miost brilliant in pre that'ever blest any
portion cf the carth, l.ewm. depending on Ue
poirt of the umion of the statesw-snd 1 conuicis
“BHOM-XS ¢ m - the, continged €once M of sld:e
and fedcr;gm The préghant soprce of dain
ger, and'to which all our '%‘ﬁ e oughtto be turn
ed, is from fa&im.‘mtd,\m the_power of the
state governments, The federalists are now igooﬁ‘b'
factien, and are stroggfing fo keep, or scquire this
power. ‘l'heiz,su'cc%n, pught be strous to. the
umon in two ways! By cn_\gu'hu\iig‘, ey whuld en
fceble government, & iy “k"bﬁh*gm. hent, they
might invite agzression ; and bring on ;bg‘h.u& of the
confederucy, from without. ' But the . danger from
within, 1 consider as much more imminent. Such & -
faction acting with an organized conibined ‘powen, . .
would be likély to bring on‘the crisis, when the fedd. -
ral government niust either control them by force,
or be contraled by them. This moment. wonid hg *
the sjgnal of separstion; the Mk&ncy.t’mﬁn; :
and every thing interesting t 0 an American b’epn., ehe
ther in possession or prospect, would M buried” be
neath its ruins. ‘Beside the shure you hold i ¢ofn.
mon with the rest of thie na\ion,?o'tzeab;pM(" the
federul union, you have a separate Mlﬁll"hgm
resulting from the smallness of the state. - Your state
sovegejgnly oan only be safe under the federul Wihye
Let Jf.t union be dissolved to day, and \omotrew you
hold c\'t‘y ‘thing. st the will -of Mussachusetts.
Let not these dungers be treated as imaginury,and ss
conjured Up to answér an electivneehing. purpose. Go
to dw volumes of history—rend the fute of other ron
federucies—you will find they a%:ithm exception,
havé split upon this rockethe f tious insubording
tion of the members tothe federal heud. Let not the
awful lessons of their upcr‘q‘mu _ ne
=listen to the warhing voice, m a the
grave of those departed governmenits, be
ware of, 10 guard aguinst, tkm&eg.
ens us, R R L TR
- Recollect the -nlarming symtoms of the ‘approac
of this dam-, ‘Teil; ‘the last two. M
what was byt fedd»:thttbﬂz ! ‘
in Connccticut, :? in this state;. ’l&m
tures were arraved aguinst the Pe ' " '
the federal lmboritv':'u m at e
The project of a dismemberm.ent of the was
openly advocsted, in some of their S
some of their publick mﬂ ‘
ly in phivate cincles. Look to the | of
ilut-dnum—hg manifest the u% g- .
organizing spirit of insuboitlination : hy.
md&muﬂ:uhwmm :bms_\:ﬂc '
lon will purge. theit chjectwith —*;
ue‘ohdy -::a;e:u certain as death, if rot checke
.with an hi hund. They leave us bet'e
doubt what that objga:. It is true, the federalis‘s
do not avow these kimﬂa m
' . » . ’ “ l' o I y I ‘
,ucuu:“lmh mmﬁrdnd' JN s
herself wigh | of the publick
bemg ble with et o
the publick—she 0 Ahe alas. *
TR
m ' -~
sert that the w ’ .
chce; on, in worda, that be s & amiier 8
«%4 NEWPORT: S
.. .. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1810,