The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-07-10
Vol. 3.

Let us now see what these reviewers OF
Old England say of our New -England breth-
ren ;-
"The northern states have hardly outgrown
their fanaticism. We have borne willing
testimony of respect to the principles Of the
first colonists in New-England but il cannot
be denied that their relig on is in the highest
degree unfavourable to arts and manners. 1t
toeratcs no musiok except psalm-singing
loves no poetry above the pitch of a taberna-
Gle hymn and not content with the exclu-
sion Of craven image and the likeness of any
thing that is in heaven or earth from its
churches, reduces the church itself to the APP
pearance Of barn. You look in vain for the
steeplc and the weathercock, the clock and
the church-yard yew, for all that is venerable
and all that is beautiful within there is nei-
thcr font nor altar and fthe priest be at all
distinguishoblc from the people, 1t is by an
aspect even more dismal than that of his
flock"
ifthe reader is not already disgusted with
such ridiculous nonsense and ialsehood, I
think that one or two more extracts may be
of use to him. What say these sage review
ers on the subject of law in this country!
" The state OF law in America is as deplo.
rablc as that OF religion, and FAR more extra
ordina,y--The people appear in the courts OF
justice with their hats on at the bar they
talk, they make noise, they smoke, and they
cry out against the sentence il il does not
happen TO please theme--This last piece of
conduct, says the Due dc Liancourt, is uni.
versal aud there arc perhaps some petty in
stances OF injustice in the courts, which make
il to be not without its use. We have lately
seen a state criminal tried there some half a
dozen times for the same offence and the
trials have been such, that il is impossible TO
discover whether he was guilty or not"
"The want OF decorum among tho Amer
leans is not imputable to their republican gov-
ernment, for il has not been found in other
republicks ii has proceeded from the effects
oil the revolutionary war, from their piema-
ture indep ndencc, and Il ON thar passion for
gambling which inlccts all orders OF men,
clergy as we'll as laity, and the Legislators as
we'll as the people"
Such are the accounts published in some of
the most respectable EnSlish periodical works
respecting the manners, religion and law of
this country Such are the miserable means
resorted TO, for the purpose Of deierrng the.
people OF Great Britain from tmigraing TO
the United States. il is not possible that the
conductors of such work as the Quarterly
Review can he so grossly ignorant as their
writings would indicate. II is not possible
that they can place any confidence in the ri-
diculous tales of Weld and Ashc They
must be blinded by the most invetcrate preju-
dice or they must wilfuily misreprcsent
the situation Of this country, from political
motives. And yet, at the close of every ar,-
Gle from which the foregoing extracts are
made, they cxhort the people Of the United
States not 10 cherish an An,i.Anglican spirit;
but 10 remember the bonds of blood and IAN
guale, which subsist between the two nations
and TO consider the English (Rcyiesvers and
all, snhhoSe as their natural friends.