Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1803-04-16
For the r. /. REPUBLICAN.

Til NOT fay m,,tah 10 command ExeesG.
Bsf qUe'H do more, Repnbhean-aoeWd dtfeyve IL.
A T the threfhold of the approaching con.
( \ fiet, preiume to addreis few lines to
the republican Electors of this State and as one
warmly, and unalteIably attached to free gov
ernment, honsttly and prudently administered,
ihall do il with frsnknci. & GnceIity. The time
n at hand, fellow. citizens, when you will again
be called upon by the provilions of your original
charter, and the duties which as members Of the
community, you owe iociety, to expreis by iuf-
frage the ientiments which you entertain ofthoie
who have lerved you in the different Depart
menu of government for the laR year. To the
faithful dicharge OF this momentous duty you
are under the moa folemn obligations. IL is in
fact duty of the highea order: IL involves the
hrR, and mott cffimabe principles OF freedom, of
civil liberty, and thar TOO, not merely as reipeets
yourelves in the preient age, but as il is to af.
fe6 your defendants to the end Of time. A,
among us, 10 in all countries there are different
descriptions of perfons who are ftriving for the
afcendency in politics. There are thofe who
are thiIiting for domination who are grafpioe
after power Who view with invidious eyes the
pretenlons OF man TO an equality of right with
his neighbor who arc ttriving with all the
pericvering indufry OF the beaver, to concen-
uate, and eRabliih in their own unhallowed
hands all the means of coercion and CONTROL,
and who hgh, and groan to fee the MATS of man.
kind borne down, and trodden TO the ground
aad converted 10 mere BEATS OF burhen, and cn-
gines for their fovereign pleafure, and convent
ence. There are, on the other hand. thofe who
reiih theie dominatiens-who though humble in
circumitances, poncfs an elevation Of mind,
and maintain the pride Of opinion Who have
lived Who have experienced Who have re-
Aected Whole notions of right, and propriety
are juA and who difdain TO iubmis 10 the un-
authorized, and unwarrsntable affumptions OF
lt.conceited. and domineer;ng individuals.
Affected wifdom, and fuprcmacy-- mock
patrician aride--the monkeys frik-ihe wesf-
els grin cannot COW their iprits, or break down,
and fubdue their determination. Ii is founded
in principle-it is fanetioned by experience-it
is fupported by truth, and by fortitude. Thus
the ihue 10 joined between Republicans, and
Federafts. Happy for the human race that
there are of the republican fentiment men of
wealth and power. whole minds are no, benight.
ed by the loft Of gold-whofe popular affections
are not AFFORDED by the tinieled glare of equip
age but whole bofoms flow with the milk Of
human kiodnefs. and who feel facred. gene
rous and fympathetic regard for the rights, and
immunities Of Others Who have nobly food
have often. and ever been Rretched a. the in
Vulnerable fortreis Of liberty.
Such, Republicans, is the ground on which
you aand--iuch the advantages with which you
are inveAed. Be cautious then, be extremely
cautious how you relinquifh the one, or neglect
the other. Remember shat the principles for
which you are now contending, are the fame for
which you once unthea,hed the fword, and bra
we'd the ihock OF battles-the fame for which a
Hancock, Lee, Dckinion wrote for which
a Warren, a Montgomery, Mercer died-the
fame for which America conquered. and on
which the public felicity materially depends
II there is any thing more than contemplation
of principle required TO aimuIate exertion, fof-
fer your imaginations TO revert TO former peri
ods Of our hihory. You who lived in the days
Of our deepeft and dsrkeft cslamity-who bore
your parts through the revolutionary fruggle,
call to mind the crimfoned and attrocious fcenes
you have witnefled. Remember the points then
in difpuIe between the mother and the infant
country Remember the meafures which were
ts wifhes and remember the friends and abct-
tors of thofe meafures among us.-Y You who
Gnce that gloomy feafon have come forward in
iife-whofe bones and hnews we're not then har-
dened and Offended to endure the hard(Aips Of
campaign, will have, in fone fort, tranfcript
Of what had paGed, by recurring to the fun
ner Of 'eS, when the impsaioned trumpeten Of
high toned mesiures uinrped the powers OF die
tation-~hen the fable badge of crouching er-
Witty and fervitude was by terror and menace
imssisi upon the peaceable credulity and accom-
modatipg temper Of the citizens-wheu rapine,
infolence and violence ruihed through OUT arect'
" like the noife of many waters"
You have of late, Fellow Citizens. had II
in your power to note the diveriity between
Republican and anti republican meaiofes spd
you will foon have il in your power to lay, in
the moR unequivocal manner, on which you be-
ftow the preference. Ii is not necehsry-tor me
a. .e,.xrrs .nv rouo, e.(nn hetweru thcui-