Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1801-1806, 1805-10-25

baRy ebulitions of PATTON or pride,
many uf,ful biafs and searnings-a
few years ago, the name of republican,
Jim from Bolton to the Potomack, was
a theme of iatire and reproach-the
Bottom Centinel let Zip lately its Ola
Hang, by retraeting the idea of hollili-
ty to republicanifn, taking refuge in
the filly quibbIe, that its holtility was
not 10 orepubHeanjlm, but to democracy /!
When a creature is driven 10 fuch
lnbts,1nge, we can eaiily determine of
what ituG he is made. Another Bof-
ton writer in publication called the
Aafbology (merely becauie there is an
Englith publication of thar nsme) has
come forth more explicitly-he says
thus boldly" We never fought for
republic, into which we were forced
" by an injudicious obltinacy of our
opponents--thus our form of gov
eminent was the reiult of neceiliry,
:" and not the offspring of eboiee."
The Bolton Chronicle with its ufu-
al fpirit and temper, has expofed the
hypocrite and impoitor. But we
have creatures of this kind in all parts
of the country. Two or three years
ago, paper was eitaoliihed at Balti-
more, called the HnH. Democrat, and
in that paper it was undertaken in
ferries OF thirteen or fourteen labored
eliays, to give colour to the holtility
to democracy, BY denying that our
governments are democracies !; the
writer or writers of thofs papers sOrOfs
fbemieiVes and their paper down--and
proved by experience the fallacy Of
their doctrines. Auyora.
THE mon violent protectors of re-
ligion are often infdes at bottom.
Or. Swift, a pretendedly rigid church
man, came under this clafs. His frit
production, the Tale of Tub, has
bcen'often quoted as anti-chrillian. In
his Argumem t6r nof abOiyDbing ebrjIA-
anity, he fpeaks thus. 'Who is there
that believes, or lays :" that he be-
leves, or would have il faid that he
lays he believes one word of the
matter" He affected to ufe this
ftile in jef, but he was in earnet ;for
long after his death copy OF verfes
was publiihed from bis o7Va hand z0rif-
mg, wherein he ridicules the day OF
Judgment. Yet DR.. Swift wrote ma
ny (ermons, hated diilenters, fpoke OF
them upon all occaGons with the utmof
contempt, and inveighed againt free
thinkers. After fuch a tremendous
initance Of hypociily, it is difficult to
be certain thar any man is chriltian.
The very perfecutor himfelf may in
his heart be dilbeliever. Thefe re-
marks tend itrongly to prove what
MIR. Jeferlon iays as TO the folly of
perlecution. Anuaaly Reg. sf'9o.
THE Vindication of Mr.. JeferCon
deferves the candid attention and Pc
rulal of every lover of virtue, and eve
ry friend TO the refpe6ability of his
country. 1t is complete, an unde-
niable refutation of all the flanderous
acculations which the malice, the en-
Wy, the chagrin, and disappointment
of waning faction have induced them
to fabricate againlt the worthy chief
magiltrate of our country, refpeeing
his conduct in our revolutionary war.
But it is not merely resntation OF
calumny. 1t does not merely eitabliih
the innocence Of the accuied. Ii does
not prove only the abfence OF guilt
lit demonarates the podeiiion Of me-
rit. Who can read it and FAY that he
acted in manner unbecoming the dig
nifty of his iiatioD Who can read it