The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1813-01-07

liz General Lees Memoirs Of ,hc war ir
the Southern Department Of the L. States
volume ist, page 2c9, | find the following
passage, which AS this work has bur late.
ly COME ort aud the public no, yet familiar
with il, take the liberty to request you viii
insert in your widely circulating paper, ant
in as conspicuous a form as you may find
eonvenient, for such think il deserves.
"rhe State OF Virginia was properly con.
sidcred the fountain of Southern resistance
He: relative antiquity, the stock oil loyalty
TO- which she has been always distinguished d,
her we'll known obedience to law and hatred
OF change, had convinced the wavering and
the doubling, that our resistance was Just
Thus, by the sanctioned her authority, she
had stripped resistance OF its imaginary hor-
rors The extent of her domain, the value
OF her products, the vigor OF het councils, and
hepolitical fame she had acquired in the
hrs Congress by d happy selection of dele
gatts, placed her high in The respect and con-
hdsnce OF her sis,cr states The uniform
sample OF wisdom exhibited by her deputies
10 that body, inspired the nation with exalted
sentiments OF the place of their nativity.
10 We hand Of one of her sons has been CON.
nAiifd the sword Of defence, and from the
lips OF another, in obedience 10 the com
mahds OF bis constituents, was proposed our
ind penjencc. Although the most ancient
snd loyal Of the colonies, she had, in our Just
wa, been uniformly decisive and active and
though not particularly. injured by the first
ho,ule acts OF Parliament, she nevertheless
kept pace with NiasSathRseftS, the devoted
object Of ministerial! yengencc, in the incihienf
siips of resis.ance, Thus distinguished, she
wds marked as a tieeseliar vicfim by the com
m,n enemy Happily for herself, as well as
foi the Union, few Of her Inhabitants had tax
crsldc with England /; and most Of those lew
Iinkhc fics, stage oisthe revolution had left the
stbe. Tins her undivided ability nas emJhioy-
effn The nm mainfencrcc efthe svar."
7Sv,4 L., s.ssr1 .5 re,.rsI
sage to the consideration Of the public al
large in the middle, the southern, and the
western states, the editors of whose -repnbii
can newspapers rcpcctftsIly hope may see
f, 10 lay /, before their rcAdcfs with the same
views that | requcstyou ,Vlnscrtit. 10 those
people in Massachusetts, who have tskcn side
win England, and against their own countr,
in the presen, just war, do not address 1t
we'll knowing that their sordidnsss and thci
lerocious passions render them quite inscn
sibe 10 the lesson it conveys. But surely
general Lee had intended 10 rcbukc their viii
conduct, and place that Of Virginia durinl
the last war in hoDourablc contrast TO II, b.
| could no, have framed passage, more appo
site TO his purpose.
embrace this occasion to say, that as on
| Of the commusity in these parts, read wi.
+, entire appreciation tho spirited and we'll writ
| ten essays that have lately appeared in YOU
| paper upon the subject OF Massachusetts di.
] solving the union. She had very long bee
( ,hrca,enin us all upon this point, throug
her newspapers, through her political pulpit
and through Mr.. Quiocy, who was sent
| Congress for the express purpose OF inform
| ing Us what Massachusetts means 10 do II ST
does no, soon get tho Union into her ou
hands, or il Congrcss dare 10 pass laws tn
she does not like. For my part Without al
disrcspcct 10 Mr.. Quincy, but merely as
general rule, am apt 10 think an habitu
: thrcatencr, no better than bully who me
commonly wants the spirit TO execute VIII
\ he talks about. But admitting that he DO
mean what be says, al have 70 say is,
his state 20 off if she chooses, nobody care
although through the fundamentally oil b
g miscrcap,s'' she has done Us, and cobtinu
to do us, all :hc harm she can. she idcn
fics herself III all things with the enemy, a
abuses our own government Infinitely wor
than they do in England. That she has n
vet made direct attack upon us with Tor
OF arms, is the only particular in which
rancorous hostility, has not yet been she"
and this England herself has NOT yet be
able to do, expect through her Indian allies
the westward i.e; hernow do something
wards dissolution since .hs seems so res
we'd she has been talking aoout It 10
r enough. verify think she is contaminaii
r other parts Of .be union by her Iieep,ous
unprinciplcd attachment TO the common ei
nv, aud that the rest Of the union IS able
fgh, out iss battles without her and mr
\ bet,er without her than with her as She y
| lends her aid. Let her join her sister CO
nics OF New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,