Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1803-01-15
N E w p o K L,
Saturday, January IS, 1909
John RUTLEDCE :

JOHN RUTLEDCEt y
The roKcsR, the AssAssix. * the cowAppll
Faye-vsR, a is-g tare-DeH 10 all s.y gysa,-sG;
Ny bisomizs b,.er ailsyr faded. eutberS!--
Bar ysaerdy fbe boat and S,iSs Of fFe4',4L2~.
Ind so,v fbe/ /rsF axl /esrn Of f,isrl, and fsssf
o, party zeal. 10 zpkaf bes fbsx rsdneel ms5
70 tempt 70 Sey4y. and sSsr sn5u!
20 /ae,jfct fbs Jae,el frx6 ,cfotS-
H0ssr, eesitissee, J~~e and ev'y earthly b0'~:
- 'Tqvas. bays dtrd.---'
Thofc of our readers who have Zen the &C.
count of that bsie. and viilainous attempt on
the part Of" fbs fa,ger Of knsys," TO way.lay
and a6afIina.e Mr.. Ellery, our Senator in Con-
gren. given in the Newport Mercury OF Tuei-
day laa, need not be furprized at the mifrepre-
icntatioo il contains. Falfehood 70 much pre-
dominates in thar paper, that troth can hardly
be diAiaguifhed with certainry.--1he conduc-
tors of the Mercury, from the beginning. have
defended the " bosoraSis Tebn RsfksSgs' with
an unbecoming warmth, aud with the weapons
of uutroth.
The fame principle which induced them to
luUliy, VIC tt11 idtt u PStJbtNA "tetNrs
will carry them throueh. Being a federsla.
MIR. Ru,!edee was juaihed when guilty of writ
ing ." Eo,gsd kney,';" being federalia. he is
jaRifed in a murdefcus dehgnl The editions OF
the Mercnfy, alive TO the feelings of bonsr, fecm
TO regret ibar John Ruiledge !!-psnfe. reader,
Johu Rutledge that " rslfe(7abk &r& cai4m-
mated E,argsr," (aranger TO wha, : TO vice 3
No---very intimate with the daskea ihades Of
ir,) ihouId have been tho objsd OF" Ssnerifed
a5xS;" and ia the fame breath calumnists sno-
,her.--it is a real misfortune to the Mercury
club, that they are 70 entirely employed in dc.
,etting and expodng the pretended faalts Of
Others as TO forget their own And that while
they confidcr il a crime to fpesk the truth of
MIR. Rutledee, they deem it praiieworthy 20 rt-
ter falthood Of Mr.. Ellery--Oar readers, how
ever, have too much good tenfe. to believe rhat
caufe jufi one in which 70 much intrigue, ,abofe,
falle- f~earing, and pes!onal violence has been
ufed. as hath been by Rrtlcdee and his friends,
Ia the affair Of" the forged letters"
-- sgri
Want OF room prevents our fsying much,
at prefent, mon the la,e troly federal attach Of
the ,igbi bszosattt' jain Rafl,dge Bot the
account which his loyal fshjeets 10 ,hi, quarter
have undertaken TO give of il contains many OBJ
ieeaions to lis vcracity. To that account, as il
wa. borrowed from the Warrington Feierslif,'
they have harrmevcd 90, q rvesscs, erich scsins
irh an exrraa from Shskefpcsr. applied TO their
purfc,' and their iame.' Their fame needs
nd ,rumpctA Their ps,/f can have as little
influence ia fctrlng a matter Of faet, a. it has,
now days in an election.
A. ifimprefIed with, and feIf-conviaed Of
L. si~ ax,(n
ledge. dogging his an,agonia thirty niles. tor
an opportunity 10 take him alone. and defence.
lef, they attempt TO falve il over by fsyirg ths,
( sRnfedge bad ALTO been invited 10 psfs . /ero
lsy, in the fame quarter! This fcems huIc
extraordinary. But Mr.. Ellcry took that jour-
| ney TO Witt his ,eiafisr,. Had Rutledgc rcll-
sions thessi Morris then j; feems muA have had
an irvifafiss TOO Had he alfo' reia,isn at
Port Tobacco Il, certsinly very remarkable,
that in the very neighborhood, and that days
joorney from Warrington, which Mr.. ElIery had
an anxiety 10 viGt, ON account OF family con-
netsion, Roiicdgc lhou!d happen to be. and at
tendsd by nan like Morris, than whom he
could nct have fylceied filter one for the pur-
poie which il appears he had at heart. from the
whole Houie OF Representatives. Wherever we
hear Of Ru,icdgc, we as thar infant arc fruck
with horror, and blinded in myacry.
They would have il 10 appear. then, that
Ruslcdge took that journey on viEt by invita-
tion--tha, he had no expectation OF fceing Mr..
Ellcry, or intention of doing what he has done.
We ak Why Morris was fent to his lodgings to
know where he had gone IF Rutlcdge had had
pcacabc invitation TO fpcnd the holidays
with fomc Of his friends, why did he not fpend
them peaceably II he had no deGgn of enor-
nifty lurking about his heart. ~by did he dif-
patch lis chofen armagcro to fceit out, and
track the oI,ied Of his wrs,hf
Ii feems the purport Of the challenge wss,iha,
he would meet him al any place rrerr RboSs-
Hand What does this mean ! 1t was an ex-
cule for bis not having challenged here. Why
did he not Was il becsufe he feared he fhouId
not have juAice done him Or that he feared he
mould have too much DO his defenders intend
TO charge and csin,inate whole community to
vilify its laws TO condemn its junfprudencc,
TO uphold q villain to fight bis character thro'
. vorid Of reaimopy, Who dares not take one
honorable fer to retrieve isl--If he was inno-
cent, h. vouid not have fhsunk from the laws
even of Rhode-I IGand. II he united innocence
and bravery. the saogs Of dearufsion wouId not
have daun,ed him Bu, that be is guilty., needs
no further evidence to prove: That he is
co~,,d Ne h,s coufcfied by his Own deliberate