The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-01-23

BAPTlSTs.
ONE Of your brethren, who has contribu-
ted at least his mite to open your eyes on the
fields OF soience, wishes 10 remove The scales
from your eyes, that you may see more Clear
ly some other objects. You will probahlysbe
| always hewers OF wood and drawers OF water
for others but, it is hoped, you will refuse
to continue beasts of burden. st
1he grapes of Sodom and clusters OF Go
merrah, which have been the fruits of Ihe
.dasrrican, THAI common sesver u fnh and al
| rnelcanness, or Providence Siander-lhQ, ipdi-
cate its origin by its continued stream oil de-
lid mud and admonish you that persecu-
tors, when out OF civil power, will iesortto
the most disaonourable and infamous means
to WI eak themselves on ihose who will mot
crouch TO be saddled and ridden.
The new year has been ushered IN with
publishing agsinst you a slSnder, /" 10 damn
yon most snhremtiy"---thas tAirty If you iake
The american Their wo,si 10 now sold ~
eainst you fear not the reproach oi NOD men
Sf Munster il is merged in that Of mod men
ofI1rovidcnce. Unable TO bear the discipline
of Goihs and Vandals, the friends havc ale
most evanishcd from the town OF Providence,
and ,akcn shelter in tie country. You are
become also, in theae times, MISoRirt,E
and the subjects of defamation. Whenyo0f
front rank shall be moved down, who WILL
supply thSf places andrcccive the nexr
charge OF the enemy Those Of ycu IN iown
Offices are bound over 70 the peace, Snd stand
ON your good behaviour. You have bat one
alternative, To be dnfsd, or 10 he mHtd.
But the mischief doth not end IN the loss Ut
your votes you arc to serve as sfsct figtcnss
10 hover your brethren Of the county under
their net. Thank God there are yet IN the
country more than 7oDo men, Who lave not
bowed the knee in SCANDAL Hail., nor wos-
shipped their CALF. The independent hce-
men, whenever the focsin shall DC sounded
will rally round that siandard which shall dis
! play the names OF RoeER WILLIAMS, Gao
| WAsMNaeroS and ARrHuR fxHNxR---'he
iounder of the State, the father of hisscoun-
| try, and the poor mans friend. -
This new years psesent is present Of re-
| igion and Of scandal, waSir vised by the COM
mi,,ee for each Of those departme nts, and
printed by the Printers TO the HALL,G .
brace Of more godly men than the chiefs Ut
their patrons Thus did the men Of correct
principles and Of the old school begin tho
year and as il was in the beginning of the
year, SO 1t is now, and ever will be, amen.
The following extracts are fair samples OF
the rhetorical flowers Of scandal in the ruri-
tanical CIvis;
I" Had I an enemy, against whom felt all the ma
lice and hatred and Internal eEniiy of devil, !
would ish him no worse portion than this nan's
character and conscience I'D then call him Hove ella
and damn him most suprs mely THAT spostate from
religion, morality and awhs nar--tI'is wrctcli---
like The mildew--bc is solccism m naptrt- tins
high.priest Of iniquy--th;s awsss dcpredstor upon
yirtue-shail this wretcs,--this modern Mabomet---
this moral mammop--ths bssilsk'-
Bravo, bravo, my good fellow take breath
awhile, rinse your mouth, 70 10 meeting,
sing psalms then return TO your w,itjny.
desk, and at him again and If your " il and
pen fails, resort 10 snbornaiion u ferJnry, as
others have done, or To muscular strength
and your knife.
The religion of Civis, and its commixiure
with civil power, may be learned from the
following extracts, which prove that his
grace is his disgrace"
The actions of the infdel cannot be governed by
the laws Of God, for the existence ut that God he
denies No, il is the CONSCIOUSNESS Of an Overrung
God whose punishment is sure, whose vengeance ~
eternal. What reliance place upon his yir-
tue or what trust in his faith, who grounds his COR
duct, not upon the immutabe principles OF JUSTICE
but upon lis own ideas of honesty, and upon sucn
prime ples AZ his own shall have formed 10
then there can be reliance upon the virtue ct an
infdeI, humbly ask If the religious characters of
men in power are not the subjects Vt lair investgs
tiOn."
The fair construction of these extracts
would establish some kind of profession OF
Cbris,iani,y ~ test Of admission inlo civil
Offices, contrary to the charter and to AN
express statute c Of the State. The first
grant in the charter was that ot reli ,ous free.
dom, and il was the first Of the kind ever
made in the world II preceded the grant Of
incorporation, and was made to every PERSON
then in the Colony,or to be there,at sny time
thereafter. IL Was a condition without which
the petitioners wished not to he incorporated.
The hersons and NOT the corporation where