The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-05-24
political Nisrellanp.
For the REpUBLicAs.
POLITICAL REFLECTIONS.

\ HOW much longer any considerable por-
ton Of the people will suffer themselves to
be deceived by tho most miserable prctcnders
10 political integrity that ever disgraccd any
country, it is not easy to say The middle,
southern and western States are sound
Pennsylvania alone has greater majority
than the Federal majorities united in all the
States, where they have the ascendancy. But
In these Eastern States the artifices and ,in-
blushing impudencc of such men, as Picker
ing, Gore, Quincy, &c. have deluded a great
number of hone :, patriotick citizens. "The
leading men of the Federal party," who are
marked by q strong line of distinction from
those zpho are Ted, are that very junto whom
John Adams, In 1900, called "the British
faction, who, Mr.. Stephens, in the British
House OF Commons, calls /" the British party
In America" It is time that every man,
who has any regard for his country should
contribute his best cndeavours to strip them
of their borrowed dress, and to expose them
to his fellow-citizens in all their deformity,
Mr. John Adams Is now most successfully
doing this in MASSACHUSETTS. He is unfolding
such a tate, as makes the whole Essex Junto
tremble in their den, end shake with guilty
fear. Had the councils of Hamilton, who
hncied himself " the power behind the
throne, greater than the king HIMSELF" and
attempted to play the Bate, succeeded, we
should have had an eight years war with
France, instead of eight years of the most
splendid prosperity this country ever enjoy
cd" But Il INK God he had the stern in
tegrity, and solid good sense of an Adams to
deal with, and not George the Third. The
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may and disgrace. The prediction of /" the
leading men," that Adams would q ruin the
party" was accomplished. Since that mem
ora6le period the leading men have been en-
dcavouring to regain their power. They
have taken advantage of the most trying time
this nation has ever seen since the revolu-
tion, to sow the seeds Of discord. Their
maxim is, "bctter to reign in hell, than serve
in heaven" Though they web knew, that
the Embargo could have been laid on with
no other than hpnourable, honest, and patri-
otick views, since it was the sevorcst trial,
the popularity Of the Administration could
meet with--yet they did not scruple to de-
nouncc and exccratc il as the offspring of
Southern envy, French influence, and theo-
rctical folly. But it has gloriously triumph.
ed, and accomplished all the ends its most
sxnguine friends could have desired.
When t., Chesapeake frigatc was attack
ed, the leading men were thrown into utter
eoaEasioa- <Ia -Rsstoas some 9f them did not
hesitate to justify it, and q pamphlet was
written over the signature of"a Yankee Far
'mer," defending the right of Britain to i'm
press from our publiek ships of war pre-
tension, which, to the shame of the writer, the
British government most uneqnivooally aban-
doned. Mr.. Gore refused to serve ON the
committee named by the town upon that oc-
casion When Mr.. Rose arrived, he was
constantly in consultation with thai tss able ad-
voratc Of the British cause Pickering, The
elections Of members of Congress and Of Pres
idcnt were not yetbegun, RosE conscqucnt-
ly refused to unfold the beauty anil fragrante
with which he was SO richly laden, unless the
Presidents proclamation was first repealed.
He,returncd TO his MASTER, and Pickering sat
down to write his letter to the Massachusetts
Legislature. But in spite Of this, and ali the
other arts. of the leading me, great MAORI
~ OF republican mcmbers of Compress were
Madison elected. What was
the result $50 soon asthis was known In
England, dispatches we're sent out to The
British minister here, directing lin to offer
on Aosenrabit rrfaya,iou for Mr ezsressien
eommit.ed in the atssct on the Chesapeake,