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

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They determined not to submit to the
power of the British Parliament, to tax them.
They resisted the insignificant contemptible
tax, not because it was oppressive, but be
chuse the payinent of one cent would estab
lish the right of the British Paviiament to
tax them. Without a government, without
nlonay, without a treasury, without credit,
without arms, in short without any thing ne
cessary 10 curry on war, except union and
stouts hearts, mefy refised to pay the tea tax,
and in defence of those rights which nature’s
(3od had given them, they commenced the
contest. In a righteous cause they had noth
ing to fear. -
Tt God who led the parsecuted through
the ﬁcr" {urnace untouched and unhurt, led
thzm also through revolutionary horrours aivd
cdrnage, and on the ruins of their oppressors,
erected the standard +y independence. Shall
we. Sir,ander a goverament of our 6wn choice,
and with means not inferiour to those of any
pition whatever—shall we in this temple de
dicated to liberty and independence, strike
tive consecrated standaed ? I trust in God we
siiall mot. If necessary—-1 trust, we shall,
heart and hand, unite to ca ry it agiin victo
rious throuzh the ranks of our enemies.
&' . would be borrowed topay ¢ creditor.
o.ngw debt is thereby created. P 8
~ Although & eun 1o thut umoupt should be
nade—yet national debt is diminishing
) aB’ much a 8 an ng’gmmbn to the amount
§ eight milfions of doflars is made for the
) ay the publick debt.
"As 8 great deal has been said about the re
rone—ltu.ouuuy that” the observations .
| bem:? met. - F some remarks
ot ‘hines, 4 supposition 'm?:;bc entertained
the present admimistrators of the I;':_'-
rament, . have been lavish of the publick
reusure~—that they have been &rodlgul. Te
'Qkut such insinuations, let facts be stated.
Y vague assertions no feliunce can be had—
comparative view of the federal and Re
ublican administrations will shew which
nght to huve most merit for husbanding the
nances, and for extending commerce.
‘ederal Admimstration. Republican vidministra
tiony, commencedan the
4th of Murch, 1801,
National debt oa the Thirty-nine millions
th of March, 141, of, dolars paid from
ighty miliions of dol- the Ast of Aptil, ¥BOl,
Ars, : to the present time, in
Money in the treas- extinguishment of the
yon the Ist duy of A- national debt...this pay
ril, 1801, e million ment includes the tnn
eveny huodred and of five millions, made
inety four thousand by Mr. Adams, at 8 per
Oilars. cent. any exclysive of
“many millions paid for.
" interest on the nation-
ve ni:va at 8 per wﬁv‘ of
Loan by Mr. Adame, No loans made since
ent, lican admin-
Rand and house tagy’ +, +AIFATWE B G :
Tux on sills, o o Al taxes repealed.
Stanip tax. a 9 b o g
Alien and sedidion - Noaliénand sedition”
g PR, b e M s
ize impo:‘ill.aml on ' mmh ¢
1 8 On e . :
onnage, in! 1800, a- dize ‘imported, and
:oumat‘ to Mne‘mikf ,MW
ms, eight and. W ' ‘~
nh\e.'h:‘:lrc{lmrmir- I‘:lw bT ’ ; y,u'?
‘.y:;.wo dolls.ro.wo;) % L rhidid & * L
Nine lmnﬁtﬂl wnd sev- mm two' hun.
onnage in b - |
ity two thousand dred oidtnnty“j
HNS. : ‘h?l?':"up 1y 4;&‘
s 'L’o\mlth'lul\:b_td‘
.
the minds of our we
tern citiuw
. \ the Indians ”i
power, M,,"‘”‘. ”‘
: ; the government a fund
in vacant ldnds, worth
| at the least caleulation
three hundred millions
of dollars.
‘ Indian titles extin
quished to many mil
lions of acres on the
esstern side of the
Mississippi.
The credit of the
nation is such as to
command whatever it
may require,
" The resolution from the senate is said to
have a war ug:ct. If it has lam too blind
0 see ity but for urgument sake, let us sup
r&.hiaku m'on? ground.—Can we, Sir,
oth the conduct of the British minister, do
less § When the government is insuited by
the minister of a fereign power, we owe it to
dur constituents, and to ourselves to maintain
fts vights und dignity. To do less, would be,
in .y opiniow, to tarnish, if not surrender
that independence, so honourably atchieved
by the valor of our ancestors. No mdn in
this natioh has a greater abhorrence to war
and its demoralizing tendencies than 1. I am
unwiliing to draw the sword, unless imperi
ous necauhg urges én appeal in it, as indis
pensible. But will the fear of war put it ut
a Jistance from us ! Is fear the Kyis that is
t 0 shield this nation from it 7 History informs
us, that suppiiant nations have felt most se
verely its scourge. No nation that cver pur
chaced a peuce, but gave a premiumn for
war. To lovk at danger in the face is to dis
arin it. Did our ancestors of glourious me
mery, obtuin independence by hallpway mea
sures and indecision ! No, they resolved to
be free—=und became free.
" ONE DOLLAR REWARD.
R UNAWAY from the Subscriber,
on Sunday night last, an indented apprentice,
by the name of DAVID SHEARMAN, Sad ap
poéntice is of a ’\'isht com{:lcxion. red hair, and 18
about 19 years old. He badl on when he went a
way w‘ h;lt .idehom: ﬂh:;'ur w.i‘ll secure
the i !so that can ain hln n,
e ..mfw*&“ Nu:.-:\.:i"'
. ! 5 persons nng,
‘l(‘ or said _boy, on penalty of
e 9. ‘%nuswb‘glcuom Na.
of the 3d we. 181 V
70 THE REPUBILICANS OF THE STATE y
. OF RHODE:ISLAN D.
FELLOW CITIZENS ! LIaL
THE crisis has arrived, which will deteymine your § )
political career as. freemen,or confirm your servitude §
as slaves You have taken your la“"'d—{"‘,' have g
selected your candidates—it would be eriminal
retruct—it would be defeat to recede. . - . s
Three years have expired, .d\'n:g which" your § ¢
dearest rights have been surrender by the Fede- |
ralisis in power, to the belligerents of Europe. § ,
They have deserted and forgotten your intercsts and | \
abandoned your cluims to justice—they have un
blushingly sLndnned the cause of your country and | 1
your privileges ; and advocated with insolent asper- |
iy, the perﬁliouo outrufen and wrongs of Great §
Brituin—they have, by falsehood, treachery, and de- |
ceit—ansl by an artful, insidious address, endeu.oured :
to excite riot and revolt, jealousy and distrust, in the
minds of the people, towards their g.d\‘cmmenl— !
they have denounced by State Legislative resolves, | ;
the general government, and approbated the, insules § -
and wrongs of a foreign nation—they have sugia- §
tized the administration with the most unjust and
fullacious accusation, and vindicated with a zest, !
peculiar 1o ******* the outrage of a foreign minis« '
ter—they buve invited and encouraged @ foreign | |
war, us « pretext for annuuinﬁ the comstitution=(o §
separate the States, and on ‘m'u' ruin to-ereet ty« §
gn yof the comlzuni{y ﬁ'om’miliury drafts mﬂm» ;
ranny and despousm—they havg exoner poe
secure popularity and adherents——they liave en
couraged Fdo"a!ty, riot, and resistance, to the laws |
of the general government, to dishonour Republi- |
“cunism 3 and have exonerated the viokuiors of those |
laws Mw punishment due to them
for their they have disp!.ced from effice, |
not enly the sIAT gqn»wu oFFicERs, because
they were sub sey liave ‘united to frown
down, ou dare to use the right of free |
uffrage, and tote aguinst them—they- have I:.iagucd
ogether to destroy your independence and your
freedome=to chain notonly your uctions, but your
; ’"‘m ’:” m ol that Great
Britain is' our only ,‘j_,z etion, and to mmm. ,
not to the resources of vur wealth and our bravery,
«: .%&"‘A AN .w.“‘ “.~:” M.- hm ”,.
sertion. irie 1 Alue ! time hgs net yet demolished the
i Py g™ L
- Sfor ’: g"’ mem
iry o onslige youtor iace th -Imcricuns rised for
» every quarfer, amidst plains- ""mg{wm&w.
e travellew noed ot eearch for the ditch which served
too enc mpuss them $0 40 0t .’l“"w t. Scai
ered ruins of houses laid waste, which the 9«1;:;.
oy M order to M British Wy,
; to be f o oa’l, 0 can say, here
tore my bjeeding donghter from the 'ands of un un
bridled . Alas ! the soldiers, -A«XJ! umder
the swerdsaf the Britons, are nat yet I:duced to dust—
the labourer, in turning up his fields, st.! draws from the
bosom of the earth, their whitened bones—while the
ploughman, with tears of serrew and angwish, Btill recol
lects, that his field, now covered with rich hurvest, has
been moistened with American blood.™ s
Our territorial jurisdiction has been vislated—ithe hos
patality of our ports and harbours, abused—our citizens
murdered, whilat in the able purwuit of demestick
concerns—our walional ‘ug insulted—the bloed of our
seamen wanlan_ly shed, and the perpetrators ¢f these hore
ribie acts, have been secured and protected {rvm punisi
ment, by mock-trials, or in some instances, by an exemp.
tion fn. trial ; and, as a farther reward for such
‘deeds, have enjoyed the smiles, and received 1 OM O
T’OJm that very GOVERNMENT, wmnder whase
AUTHORITY they acted, while it hypocricically pre
tended to disavow the deed.” g
These are but the faint outlines of wrongs, America
has received; and from those who are fuisely stiled
the Pretectors of her Rights~these ure but the faint
outlines of the conduct of that umiable nation, con.
tending for her existence, und who has done us
no epsential injury. |
By this protecting nation, and their hirelings, the
viu(’ loglrgeo of ogur wealth, havé been assailed
—our best and brightest characters have been ca
lumniated and abused ; end incredible pains have
been taken by them, to ppison the p\lblicr‘l.h‘ind, to
render unpopular a man and his administration, who
on every great national question, either foreign or
domestick, has proved himself the liberal, einquent
advocate of the PEOPLE’'S RIGHTS ; and who, un
like his assailants and calum.niators, having once a
vowed a just and patriotick principle, hus made bis
best efforts to caery it into execution. Every scanda.
lous epithet, and all the ignoble artifice, have been
employed to brand a reputation, which, in every im
partial point of view, rises, as superiour to the re
lmmion of those who thus vilely calumniate him, as
ight is preferable to darknéss. It is not difficult to
trace the source of ‘all this calumy—to British at
tachment—to British reward and coriuption ; and to
yoke the destiny of the American nation vith that of
Great Britain—with her to rise—with her to fall.
This may be stiled severe ; but there are cases,
where severity is justice, and it is known, that the
persons in question, are too incorrigible to be chast
encd by any animadversion, either of gentle or
harsh reproo}. Popular estcem should be attachcd
only to purity of principles, or an union of virtue
and talents. Wihen superiour genius serves only to
render maral depravity more notorious, gencral in
diguation should rise in proportion.
REPUBLICANS, of the State of Rhode-Island !
The dut owe yourselves—the duty you owe
posterity, ul:“iu a restless voice, to RISE—UNITE,
na men in principle. Emancipate
your enthraled from their iron grasp—liberate
your fetteved priv from their merciless controk
~—fcar no threa no persecution—will your
frecdem—the cenquest is accomplished.
You have now ceased to adopt men, instead of
principles. Youe phogress - towards the recovery of
your usurped rights, may be slow, but it willbe sure
and wmnterrupted.
You will be no laudivided into parties—but, like
a band of BROTHERS, ccmented together, by one
COMMON INTEREST, will unite, and expel from
office, those Mritish Advecates, who seek to rell or be
tray you.
Convince Federal o nts, that vou pessess
one nunnﬁmu “ﬂc your ENTIRE VOICE,
now raised, calls for reform , and the thunder of your
unanimity will extort obedicence.
They may indeed rage and threaten—they may de
nounce and persecute—but they soon will cease to a
larm, of command respect. '
Your triumph will secure Knowledge and utu-t{y
The two aescending Angelsof enlightened Mun, will
aid you, to scourge your encmics, and, if neessary
0 drive them from the fhce of the earh. 'The Symisl
of War,in such a etse, will be made & burne sacrifice
to rexson j—and the Olive Brareh of Peace, <hall pro
<l the trivmph ot ilumaenivy. .
ANTIMONO.
. Forthe RErunricaxw.
-—‘.--
- @Pifcellany.
FELLOW-CITIZENS, eI
THE period is now approaching, when
your elective privileges are once more 10 be
exercised, und you are to determine in whose
‘hunds you will place the &owcp of your state
government. 1o order t 6 ‘decide ccgectly,
this ifaportant matter, it is necessary for you
20 take a candid review of the measures, both
of the fational and state govcrmments, for
several years past. Every citizen must feel
bis individual interest seriously concerned,
both in the internal administration, and in the
menagement of the foreign affairs of the
country. -~ The conseguences of these are
soon brought home, in blessings or in curses,
to every one. But under'such a govermnent
as our’s, the legisluture and executive can do
nothing more, than to concentrate, and give
a direction and energy to the publick will.
They can contribute 1o enlighten it—they
can encourage and anignate it—they can sup
ply the mind—the providential sagacity—the
experience, and the steady firmness, which
is necessary ty its proper application ;=—but
thgc:.anuq( breathe the spirit of patriotism
nto & people, whose. souls ure devoted to the
grovelling pursuits of selfishness and avarice.
They canuot fatter them into a love of free
dom——an_ indifférence to ease—to wealth—
and when the necessities of their country
demand it, even to life iwsell. Therein,
they must minister unto themsclves.
These remarks, at all times, und in all na
tions, are true—are supported in our own
times, and in this nation, by the most forci
ble evidence, and receive the clearest illus
tration. : ] _
“T'he state of our foreign affuirs have been
so disguised und perplexed by those who
have struggied for the attainment of power,
‘amidst the culumities and difficulties of their
untry, that at length they have come to be
regarded as something mysterious and difhi-
K‘;’ of comprehension ; something,. about
whigh it is impossible to arrive at the truth ;
and hence many are induced to sit down con
tended in iguorance, ot to believe the gross
est of the calamnies, which hdve been igvent
e¢d by the ingenuity of wickedness, sharpen
ed by a thirst for power, to blast the charac
ters of men, whose whole lives have been spent
in the! pubiick service—meny; who struggled
early and arduously for the independence of
the country ; and who have been raised to
tieir high stations by the voices of a large
majority of their feliow-citizens. That we
are u divided people, cannot be conceal
ed : and that our national difficulties are
greatly uggravated hy this division, cannot be
doubted. - It is in republicks thus divided by’
contending parties, and ahove all, in a repab
lick constituted like our’s, that foreign in
fluence m.y be most successfully exerted.
Whdke the bpational governmeutis formed
by the union of several states or provinces—
eiach of which has its separate government,
and consequently its local parties—the sta
tions are multiplied, which foreign influence
may seize—fortify—and from thence direct
its balleries against the citadel of the nalion.
The framers of our national constitution
thought they had effectualiy provided against
this great evil, which had proved the ruin of
SO many states, by vesting the national gov
ernment with the exclusive authority of
providing for the common defence—regulat
ing comtaerce—making peace and war—and
with the «care of the nfbreign relation of the
nation. They lclt to each state the ample
field of civil and c;iminal legislaiion—the ad
ministration of justice—=the preservation of
hfe, hberty, and property : and vested their
goverﬂcms with ample powers to secure
tlux‘i portant objects. They guaranieed
to state, a republican’form of government,
an.glu Frotection bv the whole force of the
natien from domestick violence. :
Notwithstanding the care and discrimina
tion manifested in this partition of power, we
have seen the legislatures of several states,
in defiance of that constitution which they
had sworn to. support, by their resolutions,
usurping the suthority of declaring acts
of congress, unconstitutional and void. These
proceedings originated in the legislature of
Massachusetis—From thence they were
transmitted to the legislatures of such states
as manifested a disposition io co-operate with
them in the measures they had taken in oppo
sition to the government of the union. They
were adopted by e legislature of Rhode-
Island, who ouu\w'ipt even their guides, in the
rg :{ rebellion, by absolutely refusing to
draft this state’s quota of one hundred thous
and miiitia, requircd by the president of the
Uhited States, in conformity with an act
of cougress. .
_ln ovder that you may see with how much
consistency the men, who have done these
things, claim your approbation of their con
duct, and your suffruves, take the following
specimeus of their ¢ eed, ut the time when
thwkl the powers both of the state and
na governments,
» Certawn resolutions having passed the leg
islature of Virginia, in 1798, relative to the
alien and sedition laws, were transmirted to
all the other states, and were laid before onr
legislature, who appointed & committee to
eqmmﬁon. who reported thereupon the
fal'c ving resolutions, which were passed :
«WINGENERAL ASSEMBLY,
,- “ PERRUARY SESSION, 179,
& Certain resolutions of the legisiature of
Virginia passed on the 2ist day of Decem
hc{s&. heing communicated to (his assem-
e v o 908 TYRBEEVBLICAE. .
Y. * .
PORITICAL K:FEECTIONS.
NO. V.
70 THE PEOPLE OF RHODE-ISLAND.
Iy ia= 4 pos '
v deselecd, That, io the opinion of this
legislaiure, the second section of the third
articie of the constitution of the United
States, ip these words, to wit : The judicial
power shall extend to all cases, unde» the laws
of the United States, vesis in the federal
courts, exclusively, and in the supreine court
of the United States, ultimately, the anthority
of deciding on the constitutionality of an act
or law of tie congress of the United States.
“ Resolved, Tfat for amy state legislature
to assume that authorily, woulid be, .
« Ist. Blending together legislative and ju
dicial pewers.
« 2d. Huzarding an jaterruption of the
peace of the states, by civil discord, in case
of a diversity of opinion amoni the state Jey
islatures ; each state having in that case, no
resort for vindicating its own opinion, but the
strength of its own arm.
« 3d. Submitting most important questions
of law to less competent trisunals ; and,
“ 4th. An infraction of the constitution, €x
pressed in pluin terms.
& Resolved, That the goyernonr communi
cate these rosolutions te_the supreme execus
tive of the state of Virginia, aud, at the same
time, express to him, that this legislature
‘cannot contemplate; without extremg, con
cern and reret, the many evil and fatal con
sequences which may flow from the very na
wurrantable resolutions aloresaid,of the legis
lature of Virgiiia, p ssed on the 21st of sc
cember last. V 4 A FREEMAN,
TO THE REPUBLICANS Ot THE STATE OF
RHODE-ISLAND. .
| [ Continued.)
PERMIT me agam ‘o press the im
portance of union and exertion'in the appro
ching election. You have the most cheering
prospects of success. The voice of your ex- :
pected triumph is heard from every quarter
of the State. Let it be your care. to reaslize
the expectation. Your cause is emphatically
that of your country. . i
A former address presented some veiws off |
this interesting subject, otaers remain to be |
unfolded, still further to exalt the cruse you .
arc ‘engaged in, and to animate your efforts to
make it triumphant. o
Peace, the interest of all countries, is the
essential policy of this. The pature of our
political State points to this policy ; and any
depurture from it, except in 4 case of sueh
necessity as will leave no election, would be a
most perilous, probably a fatal errour. How
strong, how imperious then the interest that
forbids our becoming a party to the waes.of
foreign natians, between themselves ! On
these ideus in the present war, between France -
and England, our government ook the ground
of neutrality, so essential to the well being of
our countrv.—From that hour it has been the:
unccasing cfiort of the federal faction to force,
our government from this nqutu position,
and to embark the nation in the war on the
side of England aguinst France, This pefa
rious project is not openly avewed in general,
it is industriously kept out of veiw ; but that
the leading federaiists bave it at hgart ; that
they would gludly bring it ta bear, a thousand
circumstances conspire to prove. Seme of
these it may be proper here to.advert to.—
"Auend to the writing of Fisher Ames the
oracle of the Essex Junto. The great scope
of his eloquent dcclamation waato prepare.
the publick mind, for this Eritish ;alliance.
Hence his numerous essavs tqQ cambat the
prejudices, and subvert the maxigs.that steod
in his way to this object. Hence, his strong
and frequent appeals to the passion of fear.
His fervid imagination was exhausted in pain-
ting Buonaparte as an object of terrour, to
frighten us into the arms of Britain. He
preached terrours to others ’till he really
frightened himself, and ’tis said he began to
be apprehensive that his children would be
eurolled as conscripts to Buonaparte te fight
in St. Domingo. In one of his pieces he
comes directly to the point, and lets us kkow
that a treaty ot alliance with England oifensive
and detensive, was our only means of safety.
Recollect the report on our foreign rglations
by the committee of the Massachusetts Le
gislature, of which the chairman, was Chris
topher Gore, another idol of federal worship
They find that our country had suffered ancd
was suffering enormous wronge, but they di.
vide the whole blame, between Buonaparte
snd our own government, and entirely acqui
England. They discover thut, our govern
ment had been guilty of preserving peace to
long, that the ou%w have resorted Lo war
and urpe lhe"{hp’n ate necessity of « unfur
ling the Republican badner aguinst the lm
perial standard.” »
Consider the part, which the federal fsctios
have taken in every instance of collisiop be
tween the British goverament, and -our ow.
It has been that of British partizane, thouy!
in every instance their own country has bee
- the injured or insulted party. No wrong ha
~ been oo atrocious, no indignity has been w
degrading for them to defend or paliate. ‘I b
excuse, for this prostitution to the interes:
of aforeign nation is the pretence that Eny
Jend is maintuining a deubtful coudlict for b
owl existence—that she is fighting our bu
tUes——and staiding Letweéen us, mnl Wide
potism of France. Had the federalisis tl.
power, they doubtless then would confederal
with England to fight their battles, snd war
off this despotism. Without scruple the
wuuld commit the destimies of this coum:
to the disasirous chantes of such a war. K
pubiicans to prevent so great, 9 incalculab
wiv evily it is your part to keep the Gower
ment, Dational wnd state, in Republican hand
As you valve poaces wod ail the blessings th
fotlom in Yo rrain, rosiet the Soderal Tacduls
WEDNBSDAY, APRIE 4, 1810.
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