The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1811-11-06


/. Lexington and Bunker's tragick hin the
same which led through the wilderness hordes
Of sayages to murder the children, the wives,
and the parents of the Wings the same
which guided the inccndiaries who burnt
their cities, their villages, and their farm
houses, is, with no other difference but
duplicity ind deceit, The same which IN the
negotiations for heace was guilty OF ingraH-
tude 10 Fvance, and without knowing ii Eng
land was sincere, attempted ID irrit2ie that
gallant idly, and deprive America OF her
powerful aid lit is the same which, Forming
a legion Of honour to select officers ana zcedl-
shv men who had served during the war,
wanted to abandon to poverty the practcai
colder syho svas hoor 6at incorrnft6fe ;--it Is
the sam spirit of nionarchism which in ibe
.tcderai onpention proposed and recommend-
ed the royal constitution Of England, whose
only cement is corruption as pattern OF hu-
man wisdom OBJ, is the same aristocraey
which created Sgvinding funding systeN,
calculated to supply the means OF corruption,
and il is the same interest which constantly
obtained majority in the cabinet OF Phlla-
delphia BY il, the most extraordinary ell
forts have been made in 1898, 10 annex, the
United States to the confederacy OF tyranny
against the rights of man by it, Knor and
Hamilton taking the advantage OF the only
weak side of our illustrious Washington,
soured and irri,ated that great man against
me, in unison with all the hounds OF Eng
land, and excited him to the inconsistent
measure Of denouncing foreign minister TO
Congress who have consiitutionally nothing
to do wilL the diplomatick corps--(2) by the
same anglo. federal influence ho was prevailed
upon to demand my punishment from the
hA sfen
scourgc Of France aud OF mankind-when he
knew that had faithfully executed my in-
structions, and besides those obligatory min
is,erial duties, the elated applauscs OF the
American Republicans, their toasts, their ad-
dresses, and their acclamations, where the
only irregularities of which his wounded
pride would complain. (3) by the same Shf-
ri of .1aglo-nianin, which ragged with more
fury in the cabinet after Mr.. Jefferson had
len IL, the neutrality of America became
mere phantom; a. and by it, finally, sohen
Mr. Pickering took the reins of the political
department, war was fomcntcd between A
Incrica and France, and would have become
real and terrible, il one of tho old apostles
of independence, John Adams, had not ava
kened in time, by discovering the object OF.
the cabai, and saved his country by his pru-
dence and his energy. 60 In several States
ihe same foryism has occasionally prevailed.
Massachusetts and Connecticut, by the NOR
bihck. effect Of that corrupt poison, have seen
their legislatures stigmatizc the laws OF our
Vuion, and our own Republican State has had
the modification two years ago, to view one
of the branches Of its Legislative body, inject
sd wish that malady, pollutc the state capitol
with the praises of an English minister, sent
here on purpose to defeat, with insolence,
the binding stipulatons acceded to legally by
his predecessor, and assault our Republican
governour with disoryanizing addresses, s,drawn
bythose spousing political petty-foggers, by
those hand-organs OF faction, by those speak
ing machines which can never excel me-
chanical routine of technical practice, limited
by the most clumsy understanding. l have
seen lately some Of them walk the streets of
Albany with the surly ceuntenance OF guilt
and disappointed ambition, and with the gri-
mace of envy, from under supercilious
brow, spy the steps of the free and open
hearted sons Of liberty and am greatly
mistaken ii those natives who yell and Whooh
against me are not of fAaf same abandoned
sri6e. If those vcnomous reptiles ceDtentcd
themselves to hiss at me alone, should not
notice their insignihcance but In their inn
potent wrath they espouse the forlorn doc
trines of Mr.. Pickering, they revile our gov
crnment, they vindicatc the British navy and
criminate ours, and they support their hos
tile assertions by downright falsehood and i'm.
posturcs, which l may expose before l dis
miss the subject of the Little Belt, for the
benefit of little men, for whom their little
pleas would come minutey in point.
After the most elaborate exertons to dis
cover a few puny paradoxes immerged by
those Indian scrlbblers in sink of scurrili,y,
End that they have the impudcnce to rest
their defence Of the British sloop.of-war, on
the liberty oi the seas, which England has
constantly violated ever since she had navy !.
and that they cndcavour to prove, by quota
tons from the authors who have all written i'm