Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1803-04-09
N E w P o X L,
Saturday, Abrz 9, 1909.

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THE particular attentios Of our readers 10
this day invited 10 candid peruizl Of the clio
qaent letter from the Reverend JoHs GsMmIL
TO THonA, PAINE, publiihed in the fsft page
! OF the Republican.
Ifthe Church of Chrift 10 fourled on rock
70 that the gates Of hell ihail not prevail sganh
IL. what do our pious /sds,nI clergy, with their
deacons aud followers. make fuch an uproar, un.
| der pretencc OF 9ez Pains's leyelling their
churches and uamplDg on their religion, dii.
courfcs." Certainly il the gates Of he'll thail no,
prevail againa it, as j, is recorded in holy writ,
they have little TO fear from the deitical princi.
pie, OF Tbsma P4ine; and while they are thus
founding the alarm, they atthe fame time doubr
{ the uosh Of that Book which they have lad
down as the foundation of their religious faith.
But the truth is obvious They arc more con.
ccrned for their political than their 0s,sai tx-
ite"ce. Their > iiiicsl principles they knoS by
! lad experience are oot toondcd ga q rock Nei.
'her are their dilciples the moa moral, horea,
and religious part Of the commuoity. Their
frequeat fcuUiloUs expreilions upon our prei.nt
Administrators, were. even II true, enough to
confirm their want of morality and religion -
and their known falfty fpbG initiates their lack
OF honeay. Thefe pfeteaded meek followers OF
| Chrih would find il more ID their advantage in
this world. aud The peace Of their fouls in the
next, 70 propagate what they know 10 be the
| trne principles Of morality, AID broihesly af
feetion, ,--fuch as, Do safo abs,, as yos qpssix
savr an"be, G' prfo yo1 10 ,h, msnaer they
would be diit'nguifhcd by their good deeds, and
not by letting one halt OF the Union at var with
the othcs half, becaute rae preieot adminiAra
ton cannot agree altogether in the war meaturcs
OF Ref and his Jails1 parry.
Another forgery has been played
Off in New Jerfey. This ingenious
performance was figned Robert Finlay,
and was addreded to Governor Bloom
held--it contained fentiments 70 op-
polite to thole known to be- Mr.. Fin
lays, that it induced enquiries, when
it turned out to be a federal trick--a
fecond Ratledge.
The federal prints are quite
a(toniihed at the letter of the Spaniih
Miniiter--and with truth they ought,
for it proves them vehicles of alarm
without cau(e, and of calumny with
out the victims meriting it.
Expectation is on tip-toe to divine
what will be the next horrible plot
the federalits will raife--as the New
Orleans affair was likely TO be ioon
worn out, the refolutions of Mefirs.
Gri(wold and Bayard were propofed
in Congrefs as food for their friends
out of doors, but they both died
premature death, and defended with
one of the agitators to the tomb of the
Capulets. aurora.
The next federal alarm will pro-
badly be railed when the French land
on this continent, though when they
really do, many may doubtit, We have
been 70 often told the ltory before. ID.
Two frigates and three brigs in
the fervice of the United States are
under orders for the Mediterranean,
to fail early in May.
The Tripoline fquadron ofvefels,
which were cruiling in the Mediterra-
mean, for the purPofe of capturing
our merchantmen, are commanded
by one Lille, formerly in the Bririih
fervice; it feems the crews are drefed
as Britilh failors, it is quettion if the
greater part are not the countrymen
of Life.
We have as yet but partial ac.
counts of the election of Representatives.
from the fate of S. Carolina TO Con-
grefs.--MeGrs. Lowndes, Huger,
Winn, Cafey, Moore and Hampton,
are elea~i--ihe two firif are federal.
lbs and the four la(f are senuhliczns-