The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1813-07-15
From THE BOSTON PATRIOT.
LOSS AND GAIN

'ecuess ot tnat good Old maxim " 20 c0Ry
'yhe COST 6cfore ve go 10 zyar.'' Yst we boI
i' to be a maxim equally sound, and Erst I
DC cons,cered--'' To coGnf the cost of Oh
s'f6sTsaios 6ef5ye see submit If ever n;
ION did pause, and maturely, and deliberate
~ count the cost of war nnd Submission, A
rr.e'ica is fefsaps the most clog ulsr cxatn pl
ot calculating people in the world.
fot hftech years we have been SO employ
ed; we have continued 10 suffer and TO cal
culatc an,l doring thar time we have sub
miitcc, and paid the expense of war oH o,
one side; ADD Still kept calculating, over am
over again (; until murder and continual rob
nery ronsed our dorman, spirit, and cooviuc
ee the majority OF our country by narh ma
heaf demons!ration, that they had counted IN.
coSf ~ fhcfr sR6mfssion rorreclkv, and fount
ihe following resnlt--That free Use OF the
seas must be abandoned, or be cor,,cndcd FOR
cy war. That the rights Of our seamcn mus,
DC abandoned or contended for by war. Tha,
retaliation was necessary by war, for 900 ycs-
sels stolen from Us In peace. And what was
more valuable than all--our honor must be
maintained BY war, or orr nation and pcople
DC covered with irretrievable disgrace and in
fanny. This is the correct state of the ac.
Count current OF uar or Submission. This is
What re have been calc culatint for the las,
tficcn years. Whether we could .uppor, our
rights BY war, and ayengc the ;arnisbed hon.
Or Of Americs.
lsthere any among Us who can Justly saw
mat ne was tuily aware, 5Sote scar xyas de-
eiarea' how TAR We had, step by step, insen-
''o'y receded from our national rights, until
scarce remnant was left TO remind US, that
sve were once an indehendenf nation Yet
how horrible is this picture Of our suferincs,
and our wrongs, when the ctimes of our en-.
eny, and our own disgrace, are reviewed
with the warmth and honorable feelings Of
ns,I sa a,sps, Gss q Il faspl5 Honor, loud
" called upon to stretch forth their arms to
arrest the daily plunderer OF their earthly
god. The cowsrdly reptiles, zvho car suffer
10 be ro55ed and trod uhon, and cry heaee,
peace, shah have peace, e/fer the 1var is over,
and our rights are secured then tine pusiI.
lanimity aud the insigni6cancc of the peace
party will be proclaimed TO the world he
na,uralizcd traitors who have been insulting
the public feelings, and proving their own
perjury, 7uH find no erfense in America.
But 10 return to the cost of the war. Those
who chnse may amusc themselves and Their
followers, with mean, misery calculations,
whe ,her our disgrace is worth one hundred
or two hundred millions. dss,ardly
calculations were never brought into view oy
tAe no.riots Of the revoli'tioH.
JJhas ahoR sue Use by base sv6s7i.sion 2
The loss of our navigation---thc rights Of our
seamen--the loss of our honor and indepen-
dcnce as a nation. This is what we shall
lose By submission. would not calculate by
dollars and cents in such cause but leave
that to towards and traitors, as II appears 70
be the only remaining bugbcar left them, to
frieh,cn the Geluded and ignoble part OF their
conntrymen. Yet their calculations and ar
gumcnts are as deceptive as wicked, which
we shall shew.
The Naval and Military expenditures Tor
r.ine months, ending ST Of January, one thou
sand eight hundred and fourteen, is estimate
cd at sevco,ecn millions eight hundred and
twenty thousand dollars in the Secretary's re-
port. This is the only item that can proper
ly be charged 10 the war establishment, and
even in this estimate, the President informs
rs in his Message, "fhaf IL ineiudes the an
nrohriations fo, the shihs Of war building and
20 be 6uin" Nor is il expected that any
further naval appropriations will be made
soon consequently, the present estimsted
war expenditure, in all probability will cx-
cced The next uiue months Of tho succeeding
year, the items Of expenditures for tho civil
list, of nino hundred thousand doliats' and
the item Of ten million five hundred and ten
thousand dollars, arc both fe0ce appropria
,ions, for reimbursing portion OF the na-
,ional debt, and fbs interest Of the Whole de6t
of The Uaifed States. Therefore the annual
expense Of the war moy be fairly estimated
a, twenty millions Of dollars. Now suppose
the war TO last three years, (Which is not ve-
ry probablc) and to cos; the additional ex-
pense Of twenty million over aud above the
peace estatli,hmept--the frat years inter
est would be (even at the Federal interest OF
8 per cent? only one million SIX hundrea
,housapa dollars, which levied on eight MI
lions of people, is jvsf ssgen'y efnfs J'r ea'
nerson!!! The seeo1d year would produ'
.L..o ,,,;t,o~ sxro cuai ed hot.