The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-03-27
NEWPORT.
WEDNESDAY, .MaRCH 27, 1911.
REFLECTIONS
ON A SEPARATION OF TIE ESTATES. /.

THE Monarchists, to carry into effect their
favourte system of government, have never
ceased to calumniate the Republican coDsti-
tuition and administration. In the hour OF
malignant passion, they have branded with
every epithet, the most vile and nefari0us, our
fre. government and its supporters. -Disor-
SanizerS, 'acob,ns 8rigandS, san.c nlottes, cnf.
throats, tfhiepes,' .knapes,' &c. SC. all in
breath, like boiling lava from burning noun.
tain, are poured upon those who will not bow
to their sceptre, nor kiss the chain prepared
to inthrall their liberty. Virginia, .ta,es
is attacked, and become the object of their
keenest satire-ihe most attocious motives
ascribed to her citizens, because elected 10
power by the concurring voice OF miiIicns.-
Again we see the severest maledictions hesp-
ed upon the Republicans-they are charged
by them as acting under French influence and
attachment-but at the same moment we hear
the highest eulogium lavished upon Great
Britain, her form of government, and her SUBJ
Jects and the Englishman who murders an
American citizen is consecrated To virtue and
innocence he becomes their political idol in
songs, in toasts, in publick and in private cir-
cles, he Is the theme of every tongue, and tho
admiration Of them all Againwe hear them
in private and in publick conversations, in
newspapers, pamphlets, books, legislative re.
solves, and speeches in Congress, announce a
determination, if possible to dissolve the
the Union. We will not stop to inquire az
this moment how far they have matured their
plans to calculate upon success, nor how tame.
iy the people will hear the meditated chanse:
stripped of their dearest rights, hard-earned
liberty, and their increasing prosperity and
happiness, but will proceed and produce a few
extracts from different sources to subsfantia,e
the charge that they have seriously meditated
a division of the states.
"It i, better to suffer the amputation Of a limb
than lose tie whole body. Wherefore then is New.
England asleep Have we no Moses who is inspired
by the God of our forefathers, and will lead us out
ofEgypt." Boston Gazette, 1909.
The state (of Massachusetts, is stll sovereign
ana independent Bssfon Centi,el
The Potomac the boundary-the negro state by
themselves" Boston federal handbh
We hope an eternal separation between the
northern states and the nabobs and their slaves OF tue
south" Boston (,entiosl
"All minor political controversies, all nferio,r .
distinctions absolutely in this great national ques.
tion between Virginia and the northern states"
CoGes-{isuse- Books, PhilaisIbhd.
Our constitution is gone--t is dead"
Csperneur Morris
vi our SIX mitiloi's OF people, tnere are srdrcey
sir hundred who Iooh for liberty any where except
on paper" Fisher .9mes
"There is a kind of fatality in the affairs of RE.
PuBLIcxs, that eludes the foresight Of the wise as
much as it illustrates the tolls and sacrifices of the
patriot and the hero" (ibid
q" Is there in human affairs, an occasion of profit.
gacy shameless more contagious than
general election Every spring gives birth and gives
wings to this epidemick mischief. Then begins a
sort Of tlage, that turns up the sun and ali, the
most noxous weeda in the kndest soil or to speak
still more seriously, it is mortal pestilence that be-
gins with rot,enness in the marrow" ibid
Federalism was, therefore, snanifesfly founded on
a mistake, on the supposed existence Of sufficient
political virtue, and the permanancy and athor.
~ OF the publick morals" (idd
is said, that in Republicks, majorities invari.
ably oppress minorities Can there be any real pat
rio,sm in state which is thus filled with those who
exercise, and those who suffer tyranny But how
much css reason has any TO love that country in
which the voice Of the majority is counierfeed, or
the vicious, ignorant and needy the nstrumers.
and the wise and worthy are the victims Of oppres-
sion" (i5in }
Z" That Virginia, Penrsylvanis and New-york. are
OF an extent sufficient to form Monsrchics, and, Of
course, too powerful, well too proud, to be
subjects Of the federal laws" (ibid
"It is of these (whitc birch stakes) TO fail in two
years and Republick wears oat its morals almost
a. soon as The sap Of wh;te birch rots the wood.
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