The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1810-05-02

our adversary.
Thanks to the good and wise disposcr OF
all events, that this weapon has also fallen
biunted to the ground /! Thanks to Almigh-
~ Siod, that the nation has been saved from
the disgrace and ruin, which submission to
this insolent aAd groundIess prctention oil
Great Britain, would have brought upon
them The purpose Of breaking down the
sense and spirit Of this people, to that level
oi degradation which would have assented
TO the hollow sophistry of the British claim
has beeu deiea,ea.-ihe opinions OF Mr.
Ames, will not avail, as an apology for treach-
cry the rights of the country.
Incrc Is indcet. one point of view, in which
the publication Of these letters will be SER
viceaDic to the publick. They have discovered
beyond all contradiction and denial the real
fundamental principles, OF that political sect,
which has obteincd the control OF our state
administration, and which for the last two
years has been drivingwit such furious zeal
10 a dissolution Of ,be' Union--combined with
an alliance, offensive and defensive, with
Great Britain.
The last half of this volume might be de-
nominated, the political bible of the junfo. II
there DE rejecting man in any OF our sister
states, not infected with the scab OF this po.i-
40 Ipjnciples really are, let him attentively
read tnat part OF this volume which has never
before been published. Here he will find
those principles which they heretofore circu-
lated III whispers among themselves, and de-
MED when charged with them in publick
watch in their secret conclavcs they profess
as articles OF faith, and which in their pub
lick maniestoes they repeI with indignation,
~ sianderous aspersions. Here he will find,
spun from degenerate plant OF our own soil,
that thrce-iold cord Of Prostrafion 10 Britain,
L2rroHr QfFrance, and CONTEMPT for Hmerica,
which binds together the whole political sys-
ten OF the faction.
But although the pretcntions contended for
by Great Britain, has once more been with
drawn, and will, in all probability, not now
form subject of controversy between the
twonations,we have no security that in the first
hour OF success, which the chances Of war
may evolve in her favour, she will not assert
i, again. Should the temptation of rich
aud detencelcss commerce, expanded over
every ocean, and Immediately under the fangs
OF her naval power, again concur with that
g envious jealousy and canker'd spitc," which
sickens SO many of her most influential states
men at the sight Of American prosperity,
that accommodating principle of British law
oi nations, which like the devils OF Miiton's
Panuemoniuuh, sweils Into giant, or shrints
into pigmy, as its occasions require, will
again make its appearance Gin its own di-
mensions like ITSELF, The rule OF the war
of 1856, painted with some new sophistical
yarnish, will issue again from the dcns Of
Doctors Commons, as an Asiatick panther
leaps from the thicket upon the unwary trav-
eiler. The commerce of America will be
its victim and the Canning of the day, with
some sarcastick sneer, Tay refer us, for the
justIiic alton Of British depredations, to the
opinions of all American statesman. One
oi your own jurists, he will say, has settled
the question against you. Mr.. Ames has
sanctioned the British doctrine.
There is another publick mischief which
may result from The publication of these pri-
vate, letters of MIR. Aines, respecting this
question. Tncre are two remarkable pecu-
harlties In the American character The
people OF this country have more profound
respect tor highf aud Jusfice, than any other
nation upon the face of the earth. They
would ncyer contend for any claim, the JUS
; ucc OF which they should not sincerely 6eieve
to~1c on their side. They are also very much
inilISpced in their opinions by the authority
OF respected names. These two qualities are,
upon ta& whole, much tn their honour al
though tbe faction, whose principles have
undertakcp TO expose, have made this love of
justice, IN many years, the theme OF their
riaicuie. r. Jefferson, who was we'll ac-
s,uAintcd WY this characterisiick Of his coun-
trymcn, ofdk, very often, appealed to this
strong sens Of Justice, and expressed his
conidcncea its operation. His reliance up
Oh il has Jon one Of the most copious foun-
tins Of crrimcnt and derision played ty
his antag1 lists upon him--a meriment and
dcrlsioD(n nm which il appears from this vol
une, c mind OF Mr.. Ames himself did not
disdai& to participate. The floods of sarcasm
aud bvcctivc which have gushed upon him,
FOR pis repeated references to this umpirage
OF {eason, are universally known and this