The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1810-04-04
NEWPORT:.
TO THE REPUBLICANS or TIE SI.3IE or
RHODE-iSL.4.ND.

WEDNESDAY, ApRIr A,',sio.

rContinued1 sa aT
PERMIT me again 70 press the inn
portance of union and exertionin the appro-
ching election You have the most cheering
prospects of success. The voice of your cx-
pected triumph is heard from every quarter
of the State. Let it be your care to realize
the expectation. Your Cause i. emphaticaliy
that of your country
A former address presented some veiws on
this interesting subject, others repaln to I've
unfolded, still further to exdlt the cause you
arc engaged in, and to animate your efforts to
make it triumphant.
Peace, the interest of all countries, is the
essential policy of this. The nature of our
political State points to this policy and any
departure from it, except in q case OF such
necessity as will leave no election, would be a
most perilous, probably fatal errour. How
strong, how imperious then the interest that
forbids our becoming party to the warseof
foreign nations, between themselves! On
these ideas in the present war, between France
and England, our government took the ground
of neutrality, SO essential to the we'll being OF
our country.--From that hour it has been the
uncca.ing effort the federal faction to force,
our government from this neutral position,
and to embark the nation in the war on the
side Of England against France. This pefa-
rious project is not openly avowed in general,
it is industriously kept out of veiw but that
the leading federaiis,s have it At heart that
they would gladly bring II to bear, a Thousand
circumstances conspire 70 prove. Some OF
these ii may be proper here TO advert TO-
Attend to the writing of Fisher Ames the
oracle of the Essex Junto. The great scope
of his eloquent defamation waa to prepare
the publick mind, for this British alliance.
Hence his numerous ESSAYS to Cambat the
preiudices, and subyert the maxims,that steod
in his way to this object. Hence, his strong
and frequent appeals to the passion of fear.
His fervid imagination was exhausted in pain
ting Buonaparte as an object OF terrour, to
frighten US into the arms Of Britain. he
preached terrours to others till he really
| frightened himself, and it's said he began te
be apprehensive that his children would be
enrolled as conscripts to Buonaparte to 6gh
in St. Domingo. In one of his pieces HI
comes directly to the point, and lets us know
that treaty OF alliance with England offensive
and defensive, was our only means Of safety
Recoiiect the report on our foreign relation
| by the committee of the Massachusetts lie
gisl aturc, Of which the chairman, was Chris
topher Gore, another idol of federal worship
They find that our country had suffered an
was suffering enormous wrongs, but they di
vide the whole blame, between Buonaparts
and our own government, and entirely acqu
England They discover that. our govern
ment had been guilty of preserving peace to
long, that they ought to have resortcd 70 wa
and urp e the immediate necessity OF unfu,
ling the Republican banner against the In
perial standard"
Consider the part, which the federal facso
have taken in every instance OF collision b.
tween the British government, and our owl
1t has been that Of British partizans, thoug
in every instance their own country has bee
the injured or insulted party. No wrong n.
been too atrocious, no indignity has been I.
degrading for Them to defend or pal,iaie. 4 I
excuse, for this prostitution to the interes
OF foreign nation is the pre,ence that I'm
land is maintaining doubtful coi.nict Tor ID
OWL exislencc--that she is fighting our, b.
tles--and standing between us, and llse de
potism of France. Had the federa!isls Il
} power, they doubtless then would coniedera
J with England to fight their battles, and va
oil this despotism. Without scrupe TN
would commit the dcstihics Of this coun,
tn the disastrous chsrres of such a war.
{ pub,icans to prevent so great, % incsIculst
ar evil, Il IL ycur. par; 10 keep the Cover
ment, national aud stste, in Republic An han,
\ A. YOU vaire pesec. nd al the blessings n
sciiu~ in hc- -r-in. rcS:,s the federal iac,ivl,