The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-05-10

haoved affairs rise 10 heayen with gratitude whic
flows from the bosoms of zdorng millions. This
country is the only refuge LEFT for that benignant
goddess, the only asylum OF safety for her fugitive
children here We dare to adore her and slars
70 her name |" What there be found IN this ex-
tract which so enrage the tories
Ihe other haws found in the Grafton consist of
eeren pretended extracts four out Of that numbei
tnougn short are perfectly correetthc other
are either forged, altered, reenched or fsasfed ina
different shapes from what they bore in the original
The true ones are the following -" The Britisl.
Lion" "The. Gallick Cock -" The golden beams Of
Phebus," and "the regenerated Adams" OF the
propriety of these every one may Judge
We viii now produce the others, and show from
what they taken.
Now turn (says the orator,l to our own native
land but you turn, let the tear Of philanthropy
be dropt at the fate Of hapless Irelandand forget
not to cast look OF compassion on the ifaied
shores OF India land, TO complete the picture of
British barbary let the sepulchre Of eleven thou
sand five hundred kindred martyrs rise the gloomy
shores of Long Island to our view" A part of this
is quoted by the Gentlemen Reviewers to condemn
the Grafton
9 Now let us draw the curtain over England, where
the hydra despotsm sits surrounded by suffering
thousands Let the melancholy scenes Of their mis-
cry and wickedness be hid from eyes," &c.
Sd" Pusihaninous Benaparte" OrIgina'--"And
pusllanimousy has he prepared for himself crown
,4th--" The Roman Patriot, Cato." Original May
We not adopt the language of Cato, the Roman pa
trot and say to the partsans of Bonaparte he did
to those ofCesai-" Alas your dazzled eyes behold
that man in afalse glaring light which conquest and
success have thrown upon him." SC.
5h and 9h " The consnwated fyrant George 3d.
The notorious uHain Frederick Of Prussia" Original
-"vho is as consumated atyrant as George the
third, and notorious villain Frederick of Prus
sia," &c.
part of the following extract closes the list of
a6st11Ities which the Gentlemen Reviewers have
found in Mr. Peirce's Grafton. Al the name of lib
ery do not your enraptured souls feel in extacy -
and can you be backward in laying such exquisite
felicity upon durable and permanent foundation
No IF you wise, if you are prudent yon will not
neglect to look well 10 the basis Of your Republck
When tire roar of cannon announced the arrival Of
Sol at the meridian, did it not recall TO your minds
that momentous period, when the numbering car
non OF British despotism sounded is your earsf"
If any part Of the Grafton be exposed to censure
it is the foregoing yet We hnmbly believe it will
not suffer by comparison with much of the writings
even of the Gentlemen Reviewers.
To have remarked the defects which their sagac-
ty discovered in the Grafton, would be no way i'm
proper, provided ii were done in candid and dis
Interested manner but such raping vengeance
such conspicuous marks of maice and a zosnded
mind could proceed sroIn nothing but adherence Of
the cause Il. G. the commemoraton of our Indepen-
dence.
"After they have guided the readers charmed al.
tenton through more than a page of their charming
work, to add a new charm to the whole, and to
crown their charming remarks, these charming Re-
viewers, most charmingly tell us, and with more
noise than substance that this O,ution really far
beneath all notice and prooE" that ,ts'' morality 10
that Of rantng de,nagogie, and its stylea disgracs
language ~ Charming There was time when a
patriotic Grafton on the anniversary of Indepen-
dence, like the one in question, (however triAing
faults might be censured) would not have found
open enemywhcn the Caase, itself, would atone for
a few unimportant defects.
There a sinae, when such mischievous fellows
our tory--Revicwers would have been sarsa and
}eathered. ~
An AMERICAN
.Nesehorf, .4trH 4th, 1909.