The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-08-07
NEWPORT /:
THE PRESIDENT. pRoCL.a.M,s11oN:
WEDNESD.sY. AUoUsT 2. 1911.


conyening is plainly and distinctly pointed
QUIT is 100 ob,ious to esc,re rotice.
We have been told again ard gain by the
ministerial papers il Great Bri,ain, end Which
has bess ie-eoboed by The British papers in
this country, that Mr.. Foster lore The olive
branch Of peace; that lie was clothed with
iull powers 10 adjust all The existing differ
ences between the Two nation, and it would
be the fault OF the American government, is
an amicabe treaty, mutually advantageous,
was not concluded. Mr.. Foster arrivec-bnt
instead OF iull powers 10 treat uron all sub
Jects, We Ind him restricted and tied down
TO Z" The Orders in Council and the blockade
OF May 1906" Are these the propositions
announced by Mr.. Perceval in the House cf
Commons " that Mr.. Foster carried out with
him propositions that the American govern
ment ought 10 accept, as they were full, con-
ciliatory and mutually benc ficial" What /.
Is tie affair of The Chess peahc TO be aban-
doned and abjurcd The impressment of
osr scarnoh TO be tolcrized and actually le-
galized Are all the wrongs and insults bea-
ped upon this abused and degraded nation to
be forgotten, and TO redress demanded? Are
British diplomatick insults and intrigues to-
wards this country to be eternal Have not
America arrived az that point, that further
iorbearance becomes criminal, involving in
such tameness the surrender Of her most Vi
tai interests Arc we never TO resent these
repeated and accumulaiing injuries and in
suits Z Are we free and independent nation,
yet fear 10 inlorce our righis VIII VIC
forever crouch and fawn at the feet of the
British Lion, supplicalng far further deera-
ding and Illuminating insults Americans in
principle, (not in name) awake from that
a. tlxr icrt hot, dc,
dicate with frmness, becoming the dignity
and independence Of free and enlightened
nation your violated rights, and in a shoft,
very short period, you will bring that sinking
and expiring nation TO your feet. Erect but
the standard of resistance to their lawless ty-
Fanny, and they will be as hdmble then, as
they are naughty and arrogant now.
But repeal Of the Orders in Council is
's made 10 defend not oaiy on further evidence
hon is get o6ered Of any rei1eat grhaterer Of
tie French DEGREES, but on a reheai otifheir
DEGREES (the Orders in Council) in a far grea-
ter ersenf than me United States have rcguir-
ed, OR CAN REQUIRE, as pioiaung any of
oar neutral rights" That is, the repeal Of
the French (thc Berlin and Mian) DEGREES
are not acknowledged by Great Britain and
why are not their repeal acknowledged by
England because France has excluded from,
and prohibited the entry of all British manu-
fact0res and colonial produce into any part Of
the continent of Europe-this causes all tho
English colonial produce to rot in the British
warehouses, and destroys the manufacturing
monopoly Of Great Britain, throwing thous-
ands out of employ and upon the British gov
ernment for maintenance. This is master
stroAe OF policy OF Napoleon. Can America
force France 10 revoke her municipal laws
relative to Great Britain she cannot Will
she attempt it She will not
What is it that Grca, Britain demands Of
America, more than America has required
or can Require Of France, as uiolafiny any cf
her neural rights Ii is the free and unmo-.
Tested admission of British colonial produce
into The ports OF France. VIII France ever
permit this No, never. Will Buonapartc
suffer America to defeat the means he has
adopted to annihiate his enemies Foolish
xpectalion--vain hope Have not Great
Britain Contendcd for the execution OF the
law of l756---a law that Interdcts TO neutrals
in time of war the commerce of their enc
mics IN colonial produce but now iorsooth,
England finds when too late, the law set up
by herself ruins her own trade, she demands
Of America Ca neutral nation) TO violate that
law, few years ago her greatest and most a.
bic Statesmen were determined to enforce.
The presses in England, and their presses,
in their pay, in ,iys country, wrung with the
henious offence of neutras carrying OH
commerce in war, denied to the neutral In
time of peace. We,werc then told, the SIM
pie transporting Of Sugar and Coffee TO Eu-
rope was not an adequate object TO risk war
with the English, and their adherents have
fixed the law as permanent, and it is hoped
the present administration will act up 10 it.
Let England employ Mr. Stephens and other
pamphlc,crs to write more books, and cali
them Var in disguise, or the frauds Of
rea.-als'-let them set up new principles to-