The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-11-22

empowered the East India Company to cx-
portit to America They sent some car
goes to Boston, some TO Ncw-york, some TO
Philadelphia, and some TO Charleston. he
/. inhabitants OF New-York and Philadelphia
sent the ships hack to London, and they SAIL
ed up the Thames, to proclaim to all the ma
ton, that New-York and Pcnnsylvania would
not be cnslavcd The inhabitants OF Charles
ton unloaded it,and stored 1t in cellars,whcrci It
could notbc and where il finally perished.
The inhabitants of Boston tried every meas
urc to send the ships back, like Ncw-YorlSe y
and Philadelphia bat not being permitted to
pass the Castle, the tea was all thrown into
the sea.
This produced several vindictive acts Of
Parliamcnt one, for starving the town of
Boston, by shutting up the port; onothcr,
for sending persons to England to sho tried
for treason, sc.
/ These acts produced the Congress Of l77A,
who stated the rights and grievances of tho
Colonies, and pcti,ioned for redress. Their
petitions and remcnstranccs were all all neg
lected, and treated with contempt. General
| Gage had been sent over with an army to en-
force the Boston port bill, and the act for de-
stroying the Charter. This army, on the
10Th of April, l77s, commenced hostiiiticc :
at Lexington, which have been continued to
| this day .sH ts'a
You sec, sir, by this most imperfect and
has,y sketch, that this war is already twenty
| years old, And can truly say, that tho peo-
| pie, through tho whole course OF this long
/ period, have been growing constantly every
| year more and more unanimous and deter
mined to resist the designs of Great Britt
l ain. W en4 eYs3
| / should be ashamed TO lay before gentle
| lnan of Mr.. Kalkocn's abilities SO rude q
sketch, IL l had not an equal confidence in
his candcur and discretion, which will induce
me, as may haze leisure, to continue to
skc,ch few observations upon your ques-
tons. a&
have tho honour to be,
JOHN ADAMS.
sETrER III.
| .fmst1aen, October $, 1890,
SIN,
Your first proposition is, "to prove, by
striking facts, that an impIScablc hatred and
aversion rcigns throughout America
In ypnswerto to this, beg lcavoto say, that
the Americans are animated by higher prins
ciples, and better and stronger motives than
hatred and aversion. They universally aspire
after free trade with ell the commercial
world, instead Of that mean monopoly, i'm
which they were shacklcd by Great Britain,
to the disgrace and modification of America,
and to the injury of all the rest Of Europe !,
to whom it seems as il God and nature intend
cd that SO great magazine OF productions,
the raw materials OF manufactures, so great
source of commerce, and so rich nursery
Of seamen, as America is, should be open.
They despisc, Sir, they disdain the idea of
being again monopozcd by any one nation
whatsoever: and this contempt is ut least rs
powerful motive Of action as any hatred
whatsoever.
Moreover, Sir, they consider themselves
conte ndng for the purcst principles OF lib
crty, civil and religious for those forms Of
government uncer the faith oil which their
country WAS planted and for those great inn
provemcnts of them which have been made
by their new constitutions. They consider
themselves not only as contcnding for these
great blessings, but against the greatest evils
that any country ever suffered for they
know, if they were to be deceived bv Eng
land, TO break their union among themselves,
and their faith with their allies, they would
ever after be in the power Of England, who
would bring them into the most abject sub
mission to the government of Parliament,
the most corrupted in the world, in whicl,
they would have no voice nor influence,
at three thousand miles distance from,
them.
But if hatred must come into ccnsidera-
ton, know not how to prove their hatred
better than by showing the provocations they
have had TO hatred.
II tearing up from the foundation those
forms Of government under which they were
born and educated, and thrivcd and prosper
cd, to the infinite emolument Of England -
If imposing taxes upon them, or chdcavour.
ing to do it, for twenty years, without their
consent ;---if commencing hosti'i;ics upon