The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1813-08-19

Country-papers into the Government vortex.
So that 1t the editors were, as some of then
are, we'll informed men, the interests of the
concern must be attended to I; and thus arc
the Country-psoplc, who read only the weak
~ ATTRACT OF the Loodon papers, kept in as
complete ignorance of the truth, as far as re.
latcs to Napoleon and his subjects, as are the
people OF Otahcitc. In short, /, is i'm posi-
bic 10 form an idea Of ignorance more com.
piete. II is thus that they arc always found
on the side Of those who are for war with Bo.
Aapartc. They are made 10 believe that ho
is a mere devil in human shape and, that il
is his serious intention 10 come he,e with an
army to murder all the people. They be-
lleve, that he is a sort of Wholesale murderer I.
thar he delights in the shedding of human
blood that he has butchered thousands with
his own hands and, looking upon him in
this light. how is II 10 be expected, that they
can ever think of peace with him If YOU
were to tell them about the codes of laws
that he has formed and put in force about
his institution Of schools for tho education Of
tho children of laborers and mechanics a.
bout his vast improvements in roads and ca
nals about the hourishing state of agricul.
ture since his exaltation about his unboundl
ed encouragement Of the arts and sciences !;
about his infinite pains to enrich tho public
libraries and seminarics of learning about
all, or any OF his acts of this kind, they would;
il they believed you, let your statement in at
one ear and out at the other. Their minds
ate choked up. They cannot, and they will
not sec in him any thing but fcrocious, d
bloody tyrant, hated even more in France
than he is in England. If you were 70 ask
them how 1t happens, that, II he be so uni
vcrsally hated in France, he can leave France
tor so long time as he does without risking
his throne (; il you ask them how he can take
away SO many soldiers, if his government at
home depend wholly on soldiers If you
fwerc TO ask them how he trusts himself with
an army, composed entirely Of conscripts,
whom he has forced, in chains, as we are
told, TO form themselves into regiments il
you were 10 ask them, how he could force
them, ii all his soldiers hated him |; il YOU
were to ask them, how he comes t. find, in
those men who SO han him, and whom Id
has collected by the means Of chains II YOU
were 10 ask them, how he comes to End, III
such men, soldiers ready to risk their lives
for him, soldiers to beat his enemies if you
were to put these questions to the good think
ing country people in England, they would
hrst stare at you they would then grin !;
and they would, If they gave you any answer
at all, say that Bony zvos seonndrei, and that
they hoped that the Russians would 6nsh
him. While the more cunning and wicked
part OF them would call you Friend Of 10.
naharfe.--Tbis Is the answer you would get
You would get no other and on they would
go again TO call him butcher and q robbcrs
and speak OF him as wishing TO get bither To
rob and murder us.--Wcrs il not for tho
base press Of this country, the people
never could have been so deceived as
they have hccn and still are. Nine out Of
ten Of them never read the official accounts
from France. They read only tho abstract
OF the editor |; and this he knows very well,
otherwise he would dot venture to make that
abstract, IS he generally does, and say Just
the contrary what the accounts contain. Id
knows, that men OF sense and information
will express: their wonder at his impudence,
and their contempt for his vcnality but, he
ulso knows, they arc a very small minority !;
that his cndcavors will generally succeed !;
that he has the fears and the hopes of the
herd with him and, which is the main thing,
the falsehood is profitable to him more so
than the truth would be. When ono consid.
ers, therefore, the means that are made uss
OF, one ceases TO wonder at the dcIusion which
prevails at the end of twenty years. One
ceases to wonder, that the samc nation, who
were SO long persuaded that they could not
preserve their properly or their religion
while France was Republic, arc now per-
suaded that the danger Is not less Imminent
when France 10 become again Monarchy
Ooe ceases to wonder, that the same nation,
who cried out against liberty and patriotism
while tho French cried out for them, should
now think it wise and just TO carry on war
for which they arc made TO believe arc liber-
| ~ and patriotism. The whole lies in thcsA
few words the people Of this country feel
most grieyously the burdens they have to
| bear but, the hress orakes Them 6eHepe,. that,
unless Nahoieon can be oversef, They Hhape
IL suffer more than they nom sr6er. So long
as this belief can be upheld, the majority of