The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1812-04-13
WHlG--No. 4

AN authorized agent, or spy, has been sent
by the British government to treat with the
federal party for separating the Northern
States from the Union, in case they should
succeed in their elections. Is not this ire
fragible truth enough to convince every true
friend to his county, that il is dangerous in
:he extreme,to trust that party with the first
Offices in the state /? Neither papers, PAM
phlets, nor volumes can obliterate the indeli-
bic stain and moral turpitude attached to the
federal party, and discovered by Henry's
documents. Has any been so infatuated by
" Me arrangements entered ihto by the federal
Earty," as TO expect any single benefi, by
separation and annexation to Canada. Let
them look toward Ireland, still smarting and
agonizing under their oppressors.-Let them
look toward the British possessions in the
East-Indies, where the taxes arc collected by
the British government with an armed force.
Let them look towards England herself,
where she has million of paupers, and they
will find innumerable monuments of the ex
istence of the melancholy truth, that " where
ever England has trodden, she has blasted
vegetation-whereve she has laid her hands,
she has left the print of her fingers"
My fellow .cirizens-for a moment reflect
on the situation of continental Europe-from
their present attitude against England it is
sufficient evidence, that they have been tired
out with the intriguing British, who, though
Proteus like, have assumed different shapes
and forms yet they have repeatedly detected
them, until at length they have ceased to have
the least confidence in them. Even those
nations whom the British have pretended to
befriend, they have ruined. The British have
forfeited all confidence with the United States;
from which this truth necessarily results,
that there are many millions in Europe and
America who are decidedly of opinion that
the British ministry and government are hos
tile to the best interest Of every nation. And
yet a contemplate few in the United States,
attempt TO brazen it out in justifying the
British, and shamelessly condemn the acts of
their own government. To what mean and
dishonest artifce the federalists in this State
have rcsorted,t TO chea, the substantial yeoman-
ry in the shadow of lifc-lease deeds. They
have tempted some Of those who officiated in
temples, dedicated to the Most High, to be-
come advocates of, and assist them in their
intrigues and prostituting that religion they
hypocriticay profess, as an engine TO raise
them 10 power-and this while the mission
of Henry to tho federal party remained a Sc
cret. That we were to be palcelied out to our
British ncighbors, as was Poland, by the per-
fidious policy of the neighbouring kingdoms
or as g the empire of the Greeks was by
the Turks, at time when certain priests,
who had got possession of the public mind,
were amusing them with theological Subtil-
ties" You who look up to the constitution
as the ark of safety, who cannot be indiffcr-
ent to the uncommon danger to which we
have been exposed, grid up the loins OF
your mind"-be frm-be united in the cause
of your country, which yet remains " an as.
sylum for oppressed mankind. ."-For myself,
have no offce-I want none-the happiness
Of his country, is the happiness of
A WHIG.