The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1813-08-05
POLITICAL.
From the Charleston investigates.

FROM the NtaffstOn thSCStSdloi.
Peace rarfymen What say you Are you
now ready 10 throw of your peaceful habits,
and change your Syren song tor the din Gang
OF dreadful war Unkind, ungenerous Brit
ain, has at length broken up the great deep
Of her Pandora's boa, and disgorged upon
your shores--What Not Hessiaus--not a.
frlcans.--not Indians. No, nor Devils for
all these you could bear with. But she has
20 Heavens Tremble, shuddcr, quake,
at the horrid thous sht--lined your coast with
Frenchmcn you not now rise in your
might, ye no6ie sons Of feace! Buckle on
your armur and wage a war oil exterminalion
against these cut threat conscripts OF Bona
parte. Or, will you not rathe. for the great
love you bear to Britain, forgive, excuse,
commend, and embrace even Frenchmen,
when they become her tools Q fie ! Peace
harty men I" How are the mighty fallen 9
But little more than thirty years, since some
of you, and many Of your falhers, were en-
gagged in honorable war against this very Toe,
for triiling duty on tea and now you justify
her in Kidnapping, enslaying, and cruelty
numbering YOUR fellow ctlizeRs In employ
ing Indians, negroes, and even Frenchmen,
to desola,e your country with all their cruel
arts.
When you are told that she impresses your
scamen, you say they are her c~n you will
not acknowledge, though she herself comics
ses the fact, that she impresses any but her
own. And thus you pratc against war
which you say is wagcd for the protection OF
foreign scamen When you are tod that
the British commander at the River Raisin,
gave up the wounded prisoners to Indian
massacre, anG joined the savage dance around
the fatal pile, you deny it upon the ground
that General Winchester makes no mention
of i, in his official letter 10 the Secretary OF
War as if you did not know he dare not
give an account SO disgracctul 10 his captors,
while prisoner in their possession and pow
er. When you are informed that an .Ameri-
can scan was found by General Dearborn,
suspended over the Speakers chair in the
State-housc at York, you prudently attempt
TO ward of the disgrace from the head OF
your friends the British, BY saying be put It
there bimself.--Aftcr all these piliful shifts
TO Justify your 5efoVed Britain IN acts O! m
Justice and cruelty never surpassed by the
most savage nations IN the most savage ages
of the world, You will no doubt, bad as you
hate Frcnchmen, find an excuse Tor her com
pelling them by starvation in her prison ships,
to enlist in her service, aud employing them
against your country Yet were your govern
ment to employ single regiment OF French
troops against her, the whole continent would
rcsound with your vocilcrous clamors against
it .--Such has been the inconsistency OF your
course from the time you were first marshal
led under the traitor Hamilton to the present
day. Whatever Britain does is right while
the acts Of your own government are always
wrong While that restless power carries
her conqucsts into every quarter OF the globe
and cxcites insurrection and rebellion in eve-
ry government, and publicly boasts OF it, you
applaud and commend her, but when the 60
vernment you call your own, is driven, by
the imperious necessity of self preservation,
to deprive her enemy of 4 territory that ma
ture never intended her to hold, you denounce
her as ambitious, cruel and unjust, seeking
after power and foreign conquest. Such
men, at such time, deserve not the prolec-
ton of civil law.
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