The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1810-02-28
NEW PORT:
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1910.

Ihe Legislature OF Massachusetts have re-
solved, among otker things, that they can See
no adequate Cause for the rupture with Jack
son /; that is, that they can see nothing in his
correspondence of the insult alledged.
Some who have joined in this resolution are
probably sincere in this profession OF ignor-
ance, but 1t is not easy to credit such de-
gree OF stupidity in all. A majority of a le-
gislaturc SO void of intellect, would be a phe-
nomenon III the political world. This vote OF
ignorance being vete of the legislature, in
Guides every member. The majority have
voted the minority as ignorant as themselves.
They have voted away their understanding.
This is hard upon them, but the minority
must bear IT as they Can. Ii these men are
not so ignorant as they profess TO be, it follows
that instead of being fools they are hypocrites.
Indeed their pretensons to the latter charac-
ter are much more credible than their title to
the ignorance which they arrogate, and en-
deavour by Legislative sanction, to establish.
Let us strip them OF the mask. We see
in the excuses they make for emitting these
resolutions, that they are SHINING against
knowledge. We see the distress they are
diven to, in invent:ng excuses that are not
even ridiculous. For instance-one is the
tendency OF these resolutions to allay irrisa-
mon. These denuncio,ions against the gov
ernment of our county, it seems are to DC
scdanve In their operation---hne composing
drops to alay irritation, and tran9uilize the
feelings They denouncc the government to
compose the people--they alarm their tc.rs
to quiet their apprehensions Another pat
riotick excuse is, their tendency TO paralize
the federal arm, in asserting the rights oil
the country. As that arm might acquire some
vigor from different resolutions of other states,
these resolutions are to be thrown into the
opposite scale, to neutralize that effect.
This make-weight reason, though not so
contradictory as the one before noticed. is no
less insincere. They are not thrown in to
balance the opposite resolutions of other
states, but to make the federal scale in Mas
sachusstts prepomderate. They are made to
make Gore governour another year. They
are Gorlng resolutions. ,nt
These composing eouiponderating resolu-
tions are to have the further good effect Of
keeping that 6end, Buonaparte, from our
shores. Had they mol been interposed thus
seasonably, Buonaparte was going 10 destroy
England, by means Of this country, and to
snbjngate this country, by means of Canada
and Louisiana. The policy by which all this
was in train Of being effected by him, is
masterpiece of subtle intrigue. He had
made England disavow the arrangement with
Mr.. Erskiae-had made Jackson insult our
government-had made our government dis
miss Jackson for this insult-and was agoipg
to make England declare war upon US, for
this dismissal. Thus we should have be-
come associates, and from this confederatcs
in the war OF continental Europe, against
England and poor deluded England, be-
tween and beneath the force OF both CONT
nents, would he crushed TO atoms. Then
was to come the turn of poor America.
Buonapartc was to transmute Canada into a
French colony in the north--Louisiana into a
French colony in the south-.the British navy
to transport his Legions to our shores on the
east-and between alt three, young Jerome
Buonaparte was to be crowned King of Amer
lea, at Washington, by the title of AMERIcUs
JEROME the l. Though Buonaparte has
been too deep for England in this business,
yet these statesmen in Boston, have been too
deep for Buonaparte. The cover to his pro-
Ject so impeyvious to the eye of the British
cabinet, to theirs was quite transparent.
They looked through Buonaparte at glance.
They have unravelled the whole intrigue
But England, simple soul, is stiH rushin,
blindfold into this pit. Every wind is expect
ed to watt to our shores, her declaration of
war. Governor" Gore told the two Houses,
1t would be the extreme Of dclusion not to
expect it. The two Houses echo, i. would
be the extreme of deiusion not to expect it,
These men, so able in the pubIck dnngers,
are no less so as to the means of escape
Their resources for this emergent crisis may
be compIized in two words---opposition to
our government, and submission to England.
We shall continue our remarks on the
foregoing subject.