The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-08-09

depcnds (; the merchants have proved
faithless and unworthy of the blessings given
them : the yeornanry now should not be for
ced into war, nor to fight mercantile bat
ties the merchants paid TO regard to the
sympathy of the yeomanry who We're ready to
make every sacrifice Of privation, for the COM
mon good the merchants do not understand
comEsan good; particular hrefss is their COM
mon good /; particular prompt should there
fore sustain the risque which it creates the
dangers it has tempted the oppression
which il invites the hostility which lis GU
pidity has created.
NE cannot go to zvar in the present state of
the nation. There are traitors among us
who have acquired confidence not only from
impunity, but from the Ghhiause 5esfosged Ala-
on them from the .feGsfs to which their
reasonable doings which have been the mo-
tives for inviting them from the success of
their iniquitous stratagems upon publick Gre
dulity and even from congressional creduli-
-y
We cannon go TO mar
Not from physical inability:
Not from mental incapacity
Not from want of resources:
Not from want of men: -
Bnf from the want ef a national character.
The American people have exhibited
phenomenon in the political world
A people, in which small party composed
Of materials the most incongruons and repul-
sive, has in one shape or another governed or
influenced its destinies and on more than
one occasion nearly committed in fate
While the great mass of the people, thro'
apprehension of being factious, or Of being
suspected of any other than honesty, ,have been
led to do what was not only dishonest, but per-
haps more destructive than the worst effects
of faction.
The people, by their tcmporising, hoped
to cs cape collision with the nations of Eu-
rope they made no Discrimination between
right and zvrong--thc question of national
right has been made subservient to the niozey
fer centage, and thus by listening to the syren
tongue of momentary lucre, we have perhaps
been running up an account that may end in
the total loss of all our gains.
At this moment it looks as if we were not
only on the verge of war; but OF war with
all Europe not with one side OF the combat
ants, but with both sides.
The saying that extremes meet was never
so severely Observation-Disclosures, by cor
rupting and plundering, and bullying all ma
tons, las left herself without single ally or
friend in the world and we have brought
ourselves to exactly the same condition, by
different process |; tho the real causes is the
same-England is at enmity with all the
world--and we are without a single friend,
when we might, by wise toliey, have all the
world and justice on our side.
The excessive wisdom of the tenth con-
gress, will probably, besides the established
and irremediable disgrace, entail curse upon
us to remote posterity.
Can nation be fit for war which could not
---or If it could did not, discriminate between
the amount and manner of the .sggressions
experienced from England, and those exper-
fenced from France
The merchant WHO sends ship to Europe
in the present state of things sends her to
certain destruction the measures pursued
towards the belligerents will satisfy neither
for it cannot be denied that there was an abb
ject condescension to the oppressor of the
seas, and shocking want of Justice and even
Of common prudence in regard to the other.
The effect will be an embargo, of nature
that cannot be broken with impunity, where
marshalls cannot conniye, nor Judges under
their tenure of Office, violate the laws the
embargo will be determined by a foreign ju-
risdiction, for the American flag will be ex-
cluded from every port of Europe.
This will be the result of the 7oisdon, Of the
tenth congress
The British have reasserted their blockad-
ing proclamations, and shut our flag out of
the best part of Europe and the French
have, for our reputcd or tacit acQWescencc,
probably determined that our ships shall be
conhscatedif they enter any other part.
I" The banc and antedote are both before
u.s."