The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-04-17
Freemen of Rhode -Island-Read this.
CRARY BALANCES.
To the Landholders Of the State Of Rhode Island.
FELLOW CITIZENS,

a Brother Landhoder who knows how Farmers earn
their that h by The toll h body and the Of
the brow, leave address you d subject which
you al deeply interested.
Perhaps lew OF you know that of designing nthe
towns of Newport and Providence, plotting to bad
this small State with the additional debt of SIX
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS-yet such is the
hcYes, felowczens, while your Republican friends are
pay of the of the debt easy
ns,almens which shall distress the farmers the federal
lists preparing to load you with debt of than
HALF A MILLION OF DOLLARS.-The interest
of this annually will be more than THOUSAND
DoLLARs-and what resources have you from which that
be drawn pay Let tell you that you
but the farms which you cultivate and from which
many of you barely enabled subs your families
nd pay your and taxesWh ha them will be your
situation this distressing burden shall be laid
upon your shoulders ? The answer is ready-You will be
by the gripping and unfeeng tyrants seeking
devour your substance until your farms stripped Of
her stock and the soil itself taken from you, pay de-
nand which neither you your fathers owed.
The following plain Of the presented
for your and when you have read and consider
ed the subject WELL you will be able dsns friends
When British troops took possession of Rhode Island,
three regiments raised in this State for the
of yearhey recognized by Congress their
troops and the expiration OF the time fer which they
enstet they were fa!d Of and discharged The neny slt
continuing in possess Of the Island enng
issued and ct the same re-ensed for anew
o! fifteen months recognized as before and at
the alton of the second again paid oh and dis
charged As however, the enemy did the ISL
and enlistment year, pary of ,he
troops, OF othefsthese also recognized
by Congress their troops, and when they had served
tme which expired in l779 they paid off and dis.
charged AT ,hat neither Congress the State Le
eisaure expected hear any thing about those
oopthey had served OF the State, had they
belonged 10 he hne u The am!-They served under
aUrtnt had regulated their price per
month according the aca dfrtcioon OF the money a.
the time OF enlistment, and had received three buns under
their three enAS'mens Thus much for that part of the case
The regular hne Q the amy, however, which WAS under
the immediate command OF Washington, differently cir
cumstanced1bey enlisted in the year l77e when The
nenial money good, and of them Fad agreed TO
during me but such the depreciation OF the
money through the years III 79 ha, although they
received the number of shng or which they had en-
gagged yet those shlngs not worth sxenee
Judge Marshall, in his life of Washington, says
The pay of major general would longer have compen-
sated and that would have
furnished the shoes in which he marched when leading his
company against the enemyIf this the situation ei
the officers, wages high, what not have
been felt by the soldiers who receiving their nominal
forty shngs per month"; and yet had families at home de-
pending en- them for subsistence AS might wen have been
expected, they disguised and dissatisfied with the
vice and their dissatisfaction increased when they look
ed about them and compared their compensation with
that which given the occasional which
joined arcy only for short ime-But let hear Judge
Marshall upon this subect-be Says he first effort made
towards the close OF the campaign of l776 enlist troops
for the had degree succeded-In of the
States, especially in Pennsy vana considerable proportion
of the recruits bad for small 6Oun engaged fer The sOOr
While under these circumstances found themselves
bged continue III service vf'hont COMPENSATION, and often
without the necessares of life, they perceived the
ranks in th regiments be fitted by who were
continue only TO- few months, and who or af Sho-f SER
received from individuals from their States, bounties
which OF rea rcai vau, and which soldiers not
perfectly ecquaned with the actual OF depreciation
peared to be immenseThey could not fail to compare sit
tons, and look back with infinite chagrin MS,
which deprived them of they in the
of ohersMany induced 10 contest those engoge-
desert service in which was experienced
such Irritating inequalities and all felt with the poig
indignation those distressing failures the commissary
Department. which Frequently recurred-In consequence