The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-05-30 00:00:00, page 2

“ I'he world's master allows no neutrality, In fuct
there are no neutrals, The maritiie law supposes a
suciety of navions bound together by reciprocal rights
wndd duties. That society is dissolved, and it 15 chime
evicaly if' wot wr garrantable for the United States to
claim singly twe aggregated and supposed residuary
rights devolved uwpon us by the departed nations.
The old s} stem is gone ; and it i @ mochery, or worse,
oy vae outian to .\d‘\m; to_ roepruacat g Jdugon puee lue
dependunt states, now swallowed up by a conquerour.,
Awbidor will violae owr moon-shine rights ; and if
we subinit to his deerees, we oursclves violate our
neuteal dutics. What tycanny will do i contempt of
right, scif’ preservation permuts the other belligerent
wdo in suict conforinity with it. Where, then, is
nentwedity 7 LEY US BE ASHAMED OF A PETULENT
STRIFE ABOULT LUSY AND IRRECOVERABLE PRE-
“ For our part we deem her (Britain’s) grandeur
mirinsick, the fair fruit of her constitution, her
Justice, hier arts, and her megnanimity. p. 376.
of the v*ution ; vot for the paltry puipose of
@ Tecting his reputation, but to put the coun
try aponithelr guard against the muchinations
and int i‘i;ncs al the men whose politicks are
govesned by tlse same marrow views and the
sam/ vidious pessionss I have given this ex
tract/ a 8 a spcci;ncn, but there is scarcely a
pag/s after the Girst hundred in this volume,
b bears the marks of the same scntiment—
searcely a page but proves that with the idea
¢l Great Britin, every associated ideu, was
esteem, Jove, veneration, ddolatry-——-while
cvery thought associated with that of Amer
ica ®as bitterness and rancour, mingling with
disgust and scorn.
I imight multiply the proofs of these anti
putriotick prejudices, nuntil this review should
swell beyond the size of the volume itself.
But something niust be left to the judpment
and understanding of the rveader. 1 shali
therefore only prescnt the tollowing pussages
in final proof of the positions | bave advan
ced, and if tacy leave ancreduiity itsell un
convinced, ouly ask him who destres more
accumulation of evidence o the same point
to read the hook.
cvery v
chee of
drsguioe
{filse fou
& individual padsion, identilies nsclf 56 ke
urally with the love of our country, embition,
which an accurate und close obsciver, will
find buraing in the American breast mere
ficrcelv thun that avarice, which strikes the
supeilicial cye ; the obligation of social duty,
which Mr, Amos certainly supposce himsell
to lee), und which therefore in candour be
ought to admit as one impulse of action in
otheri, all these are sources of patriotism, fur
mnre\tmpious, as well as far more noble, than
his mibserabie dread of being conguered.
Buf it is the contract of feeling in the
heart of the writer, (or rather of his instiga
tors) batween Great Biitain and America,
wanifested da this and many other places,
which dewmands the unqualifica reprobation of
“ In that enslgved conntry (Britain) every executive
atlem ptoat nsurpation has been spintedly and perse
voringly vesisted, and substantisl umprovenents have
heen maae in the conwmitutional provisions for liberty.
Witness the habeas corpus, the independence of the
Judges, and the peyfoction, if anp thing humanas perfect,
of thewr administeation ol justice, the result of the
fimous Mikllesex election, and that on the right of
isstingr eneral search warrants, Let every citizen
wiio iz able tv think, and whe can bear the painof think-
By, MAKE THE CONIAAST AT HIS LEISURE.
p 429,
Ciracions Heaven ! is this the Linguuge of
en American {==Of a New-LEngland man =
And is this the paviotism which animated
the tast year’s Legisiiture of Massachusetts?
Y ete=tiese are the principles upoen which the
supreime authority of the state called with
Lch importunate outery upon the govern
went of the Union to unturl the Republican
Lanoners agaiost the imperial standard.--These
are tho doctrinos which 1n I#o9, are publish
erl in the metropoiis of Massachusetis—lor
PATRIOTISM !
abstract.om to poetry, This sentiment of attachment
(e the fund of our nativity s paimted withe some of the
Most exquisite touches of nuture in Wieland's Obker
on. Tae hero of the Poem and his Squire Sherasmin,
g e nding along ke banks of Eaphvates, in silence,
o 0 be thoughts of cuch of them are represented
as dwelling on the distant objects ot thew denght.
Duny, or sneer at these sentiments, who witl—
they will find an echo in every hooest hearty and true
piitasophy will recognize in them seme of the mosi
power fal napalscs to patriotism.
AE ST B SASEE " P T A e
TENSIONS.”
TIIY strong desive which muy possess
19 have their names descend with eclat to fu
rare ages. izanels them, sometimes, to have
sccourse to arts, which defeat the ohject of
thew wishes. Tuelr memory to be sure,
Ares Hre in distant times, but it is to perpety.
ace theie fraud and vain glory. This wus the
Thou little spot, wheve light first on me shone,
Where my first pang, my earliest jov knew,
Whiat though remote, annotic’d and waknown,
Vot shall my heart, to thee forever true,
Sl deawn by seeret ties to thee alone,
Bv'n Paradise as exile from thee view,
On ! prave hat troe at feast my boding mind——
O iay we in thy lap, onid myssices reelined
Obaren, Book 4, st. 1, 22. The last ine
iz from Sotheoy's transiation,
While i imaginary joy, the knight
Ciups to his becast, the biide, thus dearly won,
Stows mmawares the old man’s rapiar’d sight,
Forth from Bagheates 1o his dear Garonne,
Where first lus childhood enli'd the Rower's delight,
“ No-—=thinks he=no where does God's biessed sun,
So mildly shine as where by me first seen—
No meadow vlooms o gay-—=so fresh no other green.
FOR FUE RHODE-ISLAND lt‘l‘tn.l.l(‘.\\'.
FLitevary Disceilany,
rtlous American, It is the preter
-1 foreign country to his own, o un
h so glaving, and resting upon such
ndations, upon which I call the eye
MISCELLANEA, NO, XY.
SOSTRATUS,
Frw poets have possessed the power of cx
temporancous versification in 50 high a de
gree as MITATASIO. He exhibited astonish
tonishing instances of this extraovdinary fac
uity even Rgfore he was ten years of age. At
cighteen he cung all’ impirovista, forty octuavo
stanzis on the magnificence of princes,
subject proposed by one of the audience, in a
manner that commanded the wonder and ap
orobation of all the learned presemt. He
Wicwam, 12th day of the Marth of Blnssoms—
Year of discovery 513,
On motion— Resolved, unanamorsly, That the thunks
of this Saciety be presented to Brother Jown 8.
Skinnenr, for the appropriate Long ‘l'alk, this day
delivered by him ; and that'he be requested to fur
nish a copy for publication.
From the Minutes of the Society,
LOULS C. GASSAWAY, Sagamore,
once pleaded a case at Jaw before a judge, in
extempore numbersy with such force, ele
punce, and touching enthusiasm, as drew tears
[vom every eye in the room.
o Suother of I [iremmem
W ivoxe mugick powe . oth fancied jeys can warm,
- ol wipe the tewr w 4 wilg wish taught to flow.”
IHis numbers are harmonious ; the epither
judicious ; the lusions clussicul 5 the o
ures brifiiant and pleasing. s Images v
sclected with judgment, and touche b wio
pencil of tasie.
y CABE Vit Scstretus, This celebrured et che
tect was commanded by Ptolemy Philadelphus
to build u Lighthouse on the isiand of Pharos,
nesr Alexendria, in Egypt. It was complet
ed at un enoripous cxpense, and wag reckon
ed one of the wonders of the world, SB~
tratus, to engross the whole glory of that no
ble structure to himsell, caused an inscrip
tion with his own name, to Le carved in the
marble, which he afierwards covered with
lime, and thereon put the King's name.”
But the lime soon mouldering away, discov
ered the fraudulent action, and instead of sc
curing that immortal fame, which he ‘o se
dulously sought, served only o cternize his
meanness and ridiculous vanity. This inscrips
tion was as foliows :
I comd not afford a stronger proof of
sincere veneration, for that sacred priciple
in all well regulated societios which requires
the sacrifice ot individual feelings to the wil|
ol the community, than that which 1 now of
ler in undertaking to pronounce a Love T'HiLx
at our anniversary meeting., That [am high
ly sensible of my inadejuacy to discharge
this tasky in a manner correspondent with iis
importance, you wiil do me the justice to be
lieve.==That 1 am no less sensible of the
honour it conlers, is equally true. 1 will not,
howevery, murmur at your appointment. The
inexperienced must learn his dutics under
the eye of the more mature, as the voung
Indian of the forest takes his lesson of In
struction, from the sage and the warriour, to
qualify b for conncil or for battle. With
your permissionyt’ . 1, wepropose to discourse
of the gencral gbjects of the Tammany in
stitutiony and the principal dutice of its mein
bers.
Tur suthor of this poem is indued with
renius to ¢ sweetly tune the lyre,” and « ope
e basiiful springs.” He has chosen an iu
ercsting subject fov the powers ol his muse.
In the moements of poetick rapture he struck
his notes to Zore, that
Man in his natural, as contradistinguished
from his social state, weak, solitary, defence
less and unprotected, would be totully unable
to supply the wants, and repel the dangers
necessarily incident to a state of existence so
forlorn, and precarious, and is therefore im
pelled by the laws of seif love, which govern
in the moral universe, as those of motion do
in the physical one, to associate with similar
ly organized beings, and to unite his efloits
with theirs for purposes of individual happi
ness and publick safety. When the enemy
is marching through the woods to invade us,
we know, without resorting to the councii
five, that * it is pot fit that man should be a
lone " In fact we are 2s mutully depewdent
on cach othery {oe felici® and protection, as
the beaver of the lake on the association of
his species, to rear those dams and habitations
which secure his provisions from the dunger
of inundatony and himself from the niove
futal iotrusion of man. We have indeed
profited from the economy of inferiour crea
tures,
~Our uniton, like theirs, is founded in com
mon interest, cemented by mutual lubours,und
rendered perpetual by mutual convenience.
Fhus does the wisdom of divine providence,
which ordains an woiversal fitness of things,
throvghout the whole of nature’s plan, unite
necessity with happiness, and safety with
pitasiare.
BROTHERS,
Some of you remember, when our tribes,
didd not possess the inestimable privilege of
«Bostralus the Cnidian, Son of Dexiphanes,
“10 the Protecting Deities, for the use of scu
# faving people.” Sostraius Cnidius Désiphianis
1 diis servatoritms pro naviganibus,
LONG TALK
Delivered by J. 8. SKINNER, bofore
the Tammany Sociwry of viunafisits
124 May, 1810,
BROTHERS,
TAMMANY SOCIETY OF ANNAL ls,
“ T'or reasen raise o'er instinet as yox can,
“ In thistis Goddivect ; in that *tis man®
[ANNIVERSARY MEETING]
THF PLEASULRLS OF HOPE
METASTASIOL
self governm em —«Tu senile dependence on
a fureigh government bLeyond the greet wa
tersy we soon experienced the inevitable lot
of ewery nation, whose destiny it has been to
Le goveried by rulers, beyond their countrol,
and not amenable to them for the administra
tion of their nationz! affairs----our most sac
red rights were wantonly violated, and our
dearest interests trampled under foot. Qur
brave and bardy ancestors, although consist.
ting of not half our present numbers, and
des'itute of all resources, save god-like cou
rage, and invincible hatred of oppression,
rose in the majesty of their strength, wnd
with unexampled magnanimity of soul pro
claimed to their enemies und the world, their
determinution to atchileve their liberties, or
die m the attempt. A long and wurduous
struggle ensued, in whkich every engine of
crueity and desclation, which malice could iu
vent or tyranry exercise, was wiclded aguinst
us ; but Englund was ultmately forced to ac
knowledge our independence : Still, however
't wos fur from resting on a permanent basis ;
for msny still hankerea alier the emoluments
and splendours of monarchy, wnd numbers
still douted on the charms of aristocracy.
Yes ! it is no seeret that thousands scem 1o
have no idea of freedom, unconnected with
power and with office~-=%¢ they call it freedom
when themselves are lree.”—="Uhese restiess’
and aspiring individuals have been growing
up amongst us ever since the close ot the re
volutionury war, iihe tares amongst wheat ;
they coptiive a theusand obstacles, to stifle
the growth of freedoms,y and the path of liber
ty they endeavourto plantwith thorns. Were
Liese chemics to human repose, to visit us as
scldom us the locust ; where they to erect
their crests but as often as the aloe puts forth
its blossoms, our scouts might sleep on their
out posts, withow! incurring the guilt of trea
son, and the life-guards of freedom, might find
som ¢ excuse for relaxation from toil : But
these base reptiles are re-produced like the
Viati=—gvery spring warms them into life—
vy ure charged with fresh venom every
CnCr j=--thelr succession is certuln as the
casons,=—their weapons as nuinerous as the
lehves on the trees. To detect their strata
ceey ond resist their force, is the duty of
cvery honoat cidzen. To bave often put them
o Lghty to huve broken their battaliions, and
0 huve harrussed tielr rear, is the glovy and
the boast of the Sons of St Tammany,
Our soricty takes its name from a celebra
ted ITndian Chicet of the Detaware T'ribe, who
was, like Logan, renowned for bis iliustrious
nolites, and like him, also, ¢ the friend of
the white man.”” llts symbols are properly
Lorrowed Lom the aboriginal Americans,
viose state when discovered, presented a
m dol of perfect frecdom, il not of primaval
innocence wnd affection. It was instituted by
«sturay band of inflexible ‘patriots, who se
cretly assembled together amidst the sur
rounding: horrones of British desointion dur
g% the revolutionary war to commune over
e afides of thetr country, and to watch the
motion of its encmices @ ¢ fron this fountiin
sprang forth many waters”——out of this be
ginning has grown that chaln of institations
of which wé are a component link, und which
we have this duy wet to Lrighten und to cele
brate. Long way this podshed band of union
encircle the sons of Covmbia l==long muy
its brightne:s ieflect the imuge of iviry !
As the original design of the Tammany
Society, was to thwart the protean projects
of the enemies of freedom, secrecy was pro
perly imposed on each member at his admis
sion ; thus fur resembling the social dinners
at Sparta, where, when the Spartan youtb en
teredy the oldest man present pointed to the
door, and said, * not one word spoken in this
company goes out there.” Inviolable secre
cy 1s absolutely necessary ; he mustbe a poor
general who weuld send his enemy a plan of
the battle—but this secrccy applies only to
means—our ends and principles are open as
the day—\We dircct our course by the com
pass ol publick utiiity—Our constitution and
its departments of officeyare parrellel to those
of the United States ; so thaty in gainipg a
knowledze of the one, we necessarily become
acquainted with the principles of the other.
Thusit becomes, under good managenient,
4 polttical seminary, the best of schools,were
*citizens may learn their rights without the
trouble of eliborate reading or extensive re
search.==-Hesides qualifying the citizen in
private, to support the burden of a publick
station, to which he may be called at some
future duy by the suffrages of his fellows, the
importint purpose of gaining an insight into
the laws of his country, is afforded by this in
stitution. ' '
In a republick, every man ought to know.
the fundumental priaciples of its constitution
and its laws, because they operate alike on all
classes without distinction. Our virtuous
cxploits und vicious hubits will alv,ys de
pend on the form of our government and ous
laws. They consiitute the soul of our polit
cal exis'ence, and give the tone to our politi
cal character ; and whenever the greas muss
of our citizens become regardless of these,
the ballad-maker will bhave more wmfuence
than the legislator, Custom is all powerful ;
the discipline of habit all-important. ¢ Cus
tom,"” says the great Bacony * are laws writ
ten on Gving tablets,” and the greatest legis
lators the world ever knew between the ris
ing and the setting sun, were sensble of this
truth. Hence it was, that in Lycia, one of
the most ancient and perfect republicks on
earth, they had no written laws——for this ob
vious and important reason, that they might
be stored in the memory, and smfivinted on the
hearts of the people. From the Lycians the
Cretans drew their laws #nd customs ; und
from thve well known fact that Lycurgus visit
ed these countries, we may almost pronounce
wich cortainty, that he imitaied their model
LROTHERS,
and ‘practice in Eparta. * Liodrgus,” e
Plutareh, left none of Lis laws in writing ; it
wis ordered Ly one of the Rhetre (decrees)
that none should be written, because what Le
considered _most conducive to the welfaie
and prospct{ty of a city, was correct pringi
ples interwoven with the munners and breed
ing of the people :——These would remain
immovuble, as being founded in inclination.
and {rom the strongest znd most lasting tig ;
and the halits of thought which educ.tion
imparted v the youth would answerin exch,
the purpose of a luwgiver.” To converge,
to consuit, to debute wbout our rights, is
then a good substiute for the code of Lycur.
gus. In doing this, we necessarily learn
something of the laws which secure them und
the principles on which they are founded ;
and where con we descant en tnese wiih
greater advantoge, or prapriety, than at the
great fire of the Tammany Council emm—[lere
the presence of the aged Legets reverenee
in the young ; the ignorunt are enlightened
by comiing into centact with the vell infornie
c¢d: here we learn to make mognanimous
sacrifices to our country. Here we lecrn
thut great secret of harmony and unwn, <g «4-
sentlal to the existence of a repubiicay form
ol guvernment, acquicscence in the vill of the
mejority. Lelieving that form of poyer
ment and that system of legislotion 10 be
the most pertect which most completely iden
tifies individuul h«tppil\cs‘s with publick wel
fare, instead of idly attempting to ¢xtermin
ate sclf-interest, we endeavour to make it
consistent with the interest oi the community,
and to consider the one as inseparabiv
connected with the other. It is thus we ral
ly the social virtues, and cven the selfish
propensities of our citizens around the stand- .
ard of the comumonwealth. It is thus we
inculcate, and praciice, in the wigwam, those
exalted principles which support a good gov
ernwment, and mitigate the severities of a bud
ane ; ;
“ A cause like this isits own sacrement
“ Truth, juatice, reason, love, and liberty ;
“ The eternal links that clasp the werid are in it,
““ Jind he who breaks their sanction, breaks all (ww
“ Jnd infinite connections.”
“ MEN of great miuds, when they enter
into pubiick life, bargain for the calumnies of »"
demagoyes, The puredt morality, the great
est benevoience, and the most brilliant under
standing, are no assurance of exewption from
detraction. The poizon of envy, the sly in.-
placibiitty of malice, and the loud and hate
iul howl of disappointed ambition, are ui
wuys vissible and audible i the sphere of «
great poiitical luminary.
JAMES MADISON, has been for thirty
years a statesinaty abh honour to his coun ry,
and ornament to the buman race. e was
introduced into publick lile in the meniorable
vear 1776. At thet period he was a member
of the Virgiuia Convention ; in 1779, 2
member of Congress ; in 1784 o mentber ol
the Viepinia Assembly ;3 1785 a delegate in
the same body by re-election ; subseqliont
ly a member of the Hlustrious conventon that
tramed our constitntion ; re-elected a mern -
ber of the old Congress : a member of the
Virginia convention that ratified the constim
tion ; a member of the House of Representa- -
tives under the new constitution ; again a
member of the Virgima Assembly ; next Se
cretary of State ; and finally President of the
Uni‘ed States. Such is the man who is at
tempted to be shorn of bhis beams of glory by
Mr. Randolphy a pigma in polivicks, whose
capacity is declamation, whose energy is pas
siun, whose patriotism is discord, and whose
soul is convulsed like the bowels of Vesuvius,
Mr. Randolph, an individual who assumes
perfection, spurns all auxiliary aid, and swel
ling in political arithmeticky, would persuade
us that he is the unit, and the ten, and the
bhundred, wid the thousand, and the tens ol
thousands ! There is no boundary to the van
ity of egotism when the nerves of the bruin
are too feeble for the pulsations of the hear ;
when human pride is téo potent for human
reason, the mind of man becomes the organ
of a thousand wild and extravagant netes.
Happy would it be where they always as
harmless as those of Ophelia with her ruc.
In the case of Mr. Randolph the discord of
harsh sounds betrays his intellectual apprex:
mation to total distraction.-~-Extremeiy plain
in his gostume, fragal in Lis mode ol living,
with a heart in which the thirst of povwor
never created a pang, and verging to the wan!
of life, Mv. Madison has been accu ed of ue
ing under a bius towards the policy of tle
Ewmperour of the French., His accusers ure
mad, or they are knaves. VW hat bas Leen the
glory of Madison’s lite 7 To heve ewniinently
assisted in framing and establishing o tree
constitution of government ; to have spoken
and written ably and successtolly in defence
ot Republican institutions ; to bave been pla
ced, by the unbought sufirages of a free and
enlightened people, at the head of the axecu
tive department. What couid induce Lim to
obscure the lustre of his honest fame ° Nei
ther Dukedom, nor Princedom, nor rovel
crown, nor impetial « itery, nor imperial
power, conld for an instunt, sway kim from
the honourable career of bis vouth, nor fron
that devotion to liberty which is dear and pre
cious to bis heart. Let us then scatter con
tempt over the creatures who burn to destroy
the man whose virtues render more cansp. <
uous and odious the scandalous vices of b
calumniators.”
LFrom Numa's Address to John Randolph.)
JAMES MADISON:
(‘T'o be continued.)
[ri
rginia I
*’l; i
;o