The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-09-18

Providence, those hypocrites WHO try TO alarm
the passions of the people in support OF their
dark designs, have brought the merit oil their
schemes to an issue, OH which every Ameri-
can Of the most extensive, or OF the narrow
est capacity, will give his verdict in favour oil
his country.
Difference Of opinion on Legislative and ex-
&culiye measures, may create just contentious
among the citizens of Rcpublick but when
The sacred honour of their country is commit
ted with another power, they must show 10
tho world, that side by 81 de they are ready to
meet victory or death.
| do not see what could be the object OF
council of war, in the present case. There
is no fact of any consequence to be ascertaln-
cd in the whole transaction Bullies alone,
after fighting, dispute about the first blows
given on either side ; but great, gener-
Gus and grateful nation, whose rights have
been SO long, and SO scandalously invaded,
covers with crowns OF oak and laurel, the
brows of those who have firmly supported
her cause, and rejects with indignity the ve-
ny idea of subjecting them to pusilanmous
investigation, more degrading for the country
than for themselves. An officer or an agent
are not more liable to be prosecuted in be-
half of the people, for having discharged
their duty, than citizen for having paid his
taxes, or worshipped his God And the man
who does not think SO, denotes that his prin-
ciples are in no manner more equitable than
those of the disgusting tyrants or the veno-
nous monsters, who have been the scourgc
of France, and who maue it practice to stab
the most faithful subjects of the Republick,
with the daggers sharpened by her enemies.
1t is perfectly immaterial to know who cha
scd, who hailed, who fired the first, or by
whose orders it was done, if we had right
70 exercise all those acts of local sovereignty,
and if the real trespasses, the real acts OF
hostility repeatedly committed against our
jurisdiction and neutrality by the Little Belt
and the other English men-of-war, who an
noy constantly our commerce, and blockade
our ports, were anterior TO those circumstan-
ces. That conclusion, however, l admit it,
is established on the principle of maritime
dominion, which Mr.. Pickering has carefully
avoided to take into consideration. But if
the American ground does not suit his poll
ticks, am willing, for the sake of argument,
TO give him all the chance he may wish TO
have, and to suffer him, in imitation Of the
Little Belt, TO run away as fast as he can,
from our shores, towards the highway of ma
tions, the high seas, the mare Li6ernm !:
where new floating battery of nenfral diplo-
matick authorities, will, in my next number,
outsail him, coerce him to show his BRUSH
colours, and disclose that whilst he opposes
the tyranny of France over Europe, he advo-
Gates the tyranny Of England over the seas.
For my part hate all kinds'of tyranny, but I
yenerate America, the last abode of liberty
on earth and do not think that to abandon
tamely her rights, could secure her indepen-
dencc against either France or England.
EDMOND CHARLES GENET,
II citizen of Ncsv York.
Prospect Hill, Aug. %, 1871.