The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-05-24

and that without making any question as' to
the Proclamation or the admission oi British
ships of war into our harbolirs. ~..'k -
The duplicity and hollowncss Of I" the lead.
ing men," is truly worthy of execration and
abborrence. All lfhe leading men Of the party
nearly, in Congress, voted agains: the Non
Intercourse law, which, according to Mr.,
Erskine, the British minister, has produced
Ga favourable change in the relations between
his Britannick Majesty and the United States.'
They denounced it as partial to France, while
he declares that it has placed the bclligerent
powers upon footing of equality. They hare
ever been camorous for .tortifcatio',s; yet
they voted at the last session against this, and
every sort Of defence.
THE leading men call themselves Federal
lists, yet they have done every thing in their
power to accomplish dissolution of the Fed
eral union. They have awakened and nour-
ished those icalousics between the Northern
and Southern states, which Washington So
anxiously warned his countymen against
They are of Cato's mind--and had rather
be fret in little village, than second in Rome.
But it is firmly believed that even in "4these
States" their deception will not muchlonger
avail them.
How mortified, disappointed and cnraged,
must Pickering be, abandoned as he is by his
patrons and employers! Though he has SADLY
and Justly defended the British cause
though he has represented that Britain had
done us little or no injury though he de-
Tended the Orders in Council as DEGREES that
she had right to issue in retaliation of the
measures of France, and Of which we had no
right to compain--yet the British govern
ment have announced their intention of re
moving their Orders 6efore the French decrces
are repealed-and have in fact returned back
the proposal made by Mr.. Jefferson in Au-
gust last, and to which Mr. Canning then re-
turned such an impudent, contemptuous an.
swer. They have suffered Pickering to fall
into that pit he had dug for his country. The
object of all his struggles and writings is
now more distant than ever. The arrows
shot to wound the fair fame of Jefferson and
Madison have rccoiled upon himself. The
mock AriStides may wrap himself up in his
cloak and watch new opportunity to stab-at
virtue but he is too much despised to be BAN
ished by his country. 1t is the most exquis-
ite torture he can endure to see her smile and
flourish, in spite of the poison he has endcav--
CURED to minister to blight her honour, and
waste her with the slow consuming pestilcnce
of disgrace. In vain did he betray her at
Lexington---n vain did he pocket the des-
patches received in 1899, relative to French
affairs, and keep them from Mr.. Adams--in
vain did he attempt to excite 'discord and
sharpen the daggers of civil war, Iknow he
man Of 4phom sheak. His sordid, solitary
soul delights only in laying snares for mcnlof
bonour--in defeating the efforts of patriot
ism-and in blasting that happiness he cannot
enjoy. His industry is confined to the grow
elling task Of undermining the stately col
umns of other mems reputation. Dcspairirg
of being able to rival even in evil their we'll
earned fame for honourablc actions, he assails
with blind, vandal fury, their noblcst works,
in hopes of acquiring the glory of destroying
the trophies of their triumphs but they will
survive, both his relentless attacks and the
tooth of time.
A FREEMAN,