The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1814-06-01

SOLDIERS!
New combats call you attacking or attack
cd, there will be for Us no repose, but when
That army, Wellinglon's formed OF such
Heterogeneous materials, shall be entirely an
initiated, or when il shall have evacuated the
territory of the empire. Waaover may be
its PROCESS. or its numerical superiority, Il
does not suspect the dangers that surround 1t,
nor TIE perils shat await il but time will
prove 10 them, SIS we'll as TO their CON mmander,
that our territory is not to be invaded, nor
French honor insuI,ed, with impuni'y
Soldiers The General commanding the
army against which we fight every day, had
the bareiacedness To excite you and your coun-
;rymen TO revolt and sedltion. He speaks OF
peace, while the torch of discord is IN his
train. He speaks of peace, and &c excites
the French TO civil war. Thanks be render
ed 10 him, for having thus made known TO US
his projects From this moment, our forces
are augmented an hundred fold, and from this
moment he also rallies round the imperial ca
giles, those who, seduced by deceitiul appear
ances, nigh, have believed that be waged an
boporabie war.
The enemy have dared to insnt national
honor they have had the infamy TO invite
Frenchmen to be,ray their oa,hs, and 10 be
perjurers TO the Emperor. This oHcnce can
only be- avenged In blood. To arms Let
this cry resound through all the south % the
Empire There is no Fcenchman but has to
avengc himself or he abuses his country, and
from that inonent we must reckon him IN
thc number OF our eRemies.-A lew days
more and those who may have behsved IN tue
sincerity and delicacy of the English, will
learn TO their sorrow, that heir arItu pr0mi-
ses had no other end than 10 enervate their
courage, and subdue them. Those puslllan-
imous beings who calculate the sacrifices they
are 10 make TO save their country, Will recol-
lect that the English in this War, have no 9TH
CT object than TO destroy France by means of
herself, and to enslavc the French, as the
Portuguese, the Sicilians, aud all others who
groan under their dominion. The history OF
the past will present itself to the memory OF
those anti Frenchmen, who prefer transient
enjoymenis to the welfare of the great fami-
ly, aud they will see Englishmen causing
Frenchmen TO be slaughtered by Frenchmen
at Qaiberon /; they will see Engiishmen at
the head OF all the conspracies, OF the over
throw OF all principle, of the destruction Of
al! the establishments of greatness and indrs-
try, to satisfy their unbounded ambition, and
their Unsuitable avicity. Does there exist a
single spot on the globe, know0 to the Eng
lish, where they nave not caused TO be des-
troyed by bribery and by violence, the fabrics
and manufactures, the products of which RI
vailed or cclipsed their own ? Such would be
the fate Of the French establishments, should
the English attain their aim.
Soldiers Let us devote 10 opprobrium
and to general execra,ion, any Frenchman
who shall in ony manner whatever have favor
ed the insd;ous projects OF the enemy even
him who though momentarily subdued, shall
Rot have sought every Imaginable means to
harm them Let us also devote TO opprobi-
um, and let US disown as Frenchme.., those
who, being able personally TO defend them
selves, avail themselves of specious preten.
ccs to excuse themselves from it. From this
moment, there is no iurthur conncxIon be-
tween them and US, and we may, in aDtcipa-
ton, be certain, that incxorabc history wit!
hand down their names TO posterily with exc
cration
AS to us, our duty is plain honor and il.
deity ! that is our motto. To fight TO the
last the enemies of our august Emperor, and
our beloved country respect to persons and
property comnlisera,ion for the misfortuncs
Of those who are momentarily subducd and
their prompt delivcrance obedience and dis
cipline implacabIc hatred to traitors, and 20
the enemies Of the French name deadly
war to those who may attempt to divide, in
order to destroy US Let US ever bear in
our mind, fifteen centuries of glory, and in
Vulnerable triumphs which have exalted our
Country let US contemplate the prodigious
efforts of our great Emperor, and his splend-
i'd victories, which will immortalize the
French name let us be worthy Of him, and
then we may bequeath, untarnished, the in-
heritance Of our ancestors, to the latest pos
terIty. Let Us &c Frenchmen, and lct. Us die
with arms in our hands, sooner than survive
our dishonor,
At Head-Quartcrs, March l., 1914.
80. -
Extracts fro1v a letter from Aanfz, dated 4M
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