The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1814-12-28


that the i<3yers Of New. England arc the peo-
pic most interested in i.--y we can 6eheve
tAe latoyers.
The truth was, and il must so be evident
10 all thinking men, that the foreign coin
yncrcc Of the Eew-EngIand states depended
On the frieghts aud coasting trade afforded to
them by the. other Staies--fur ths simple rca-
son fand think il a ,olcrabIc good one) tha.
they bad, comparatively, nothing OF theii
own to load their vessels with. We found
the people os tta, section Of our country in
every bay sud harbor, and almost every riye'
nnd creek, on the coast, from the Hudson 10
che Mississippi, seek king a freight or dispos-
inc of their knfek-knackar--the proceeds of
rhe ka6or this inineose siness afforded,
were laid out in the productions Of the mid
dlc and south, which transported immediate.
" 20 the Vest Indies and Ecrope, or, inter
mcdia,ely sent there through the New-Eng'
land ports, was the real principlso. their too.
ei n commerce. 1t enabled them 10 trade
60 all parts Of the world, and especially sup
ported their dealing with beloved Old Eng
land without 1t, they could not have sup
ported that commerce, alone, ter three years
1.-The whole disposable articles of the eastern
states would not have paid for lhc British
goods imported. This is not said at random.
II is then a coro!lary tina, the commerce oil
tho New-England states depended on the Ia
Dor, entcrpIizo and economy OF their people,
applied as afcresaid, and not on their nation
al productions. Nor is II less clearly demon
strateS, that when the field of that labor, &c.
shali become foreign soil, that their COM
...srse mos. fail. III il was through this la
Dor tha, Boston became rich, II follows that
for the want of its exercise Boston will be
made poor. Great Britain has monopolized
what may be strictly called the carrying trade
OF all tho wort6---hcr design 10 restrain US,
even in the transport of our own commod;-
tics was one OF the original causes OF the
war--wili she deny 10 her own subjects The
advantages Of il in favour OF the nation
of NJ England /" pshaw-- But, and, il shc
did, avhere---l ask emphaticaIIy wHERE,would
the merchants of New. England obtain IT,
commodities ! They raise nothing OF ,hem-
selves TO support il---.hey have no colonies
and you'd be FOREIGNERS, haysny duiies az
sncA, in all parts of the world. where they
used to o5fain and dishose OF the articles that
sustained il and The tonnage OF Massachu-
sets, so much vaun,cd OF, with tho seamen
char navigate II, wsuid be transferred TO rho
middle and south, or rot or starve at homo 3
The iacobns know all ihis--but what arc
such consideration, to men
s'Rcsolv'd TO ruin or 70 rnls the State |"
Many "rcpo.t," that disgrace the journals
of Mas sachusetts introduced by the Jacobins
and carried through by pary) have been laid
before oir readers. There Is sort oi Gun.
ming runs in the n, all that is very remarkable.
The lawyers have specially acquired the
faculty OF uttcring gross taischood IN the
words Of truth. could point out fifty cases
fikc the following:
When the people Of this commonwealth ara re-
minded that since the adoption OF the constitution
thirty millions Of dcars have been collected in this
state and paid into the treasury Of the u States, &C.
Such is the language of report signed
ID. A. White, meant TO convoy the idea to
the people OF Massachusetts, that they had
really contributed so much moneyto the geo.
cral government. What pity that Mr..
White was not better Informed OF the thing
he spoke Of Ii be had applied to me,
would have told him that duties to the amount
o. more than forty millions instead of " ,hir-
ty" had been collected in Massachusetts
" since The adoption" Now this would have
sounded much louder 1t would have. been
exactly as 2s-pounder 10 an Ia How
muck would have been added 10 the noise,ior
the paltry sum of3O cents postage Oh iet-
ter 10 II Mics, by commilteo OF the Lcgis-
lsiurc OF Massachusetts, on business belong
ing TO Massachusetts, as that committee sup
posed ! But would also have told the gcn-
tlcman, that Massachusetts had not cootribu-
ted one half if more than fourth of that
sum to The revenue, though il was collected
there. That another state collected one
fourth more than Massachusetts another
nearly as much, and that several of them
really paid a greater revenue than Ina, state,
by millions.
When il shall be fact that the lnerchant,
and not "a consumer pays Inc duty ON an ar.
ticic, then may t,e in,inua,ion of this MIR.
White become d trath. But ss hardly ex-,
pee, the proposition will ever be realized aa.
til white is black, put il down as gross
snisconcep,ioo OF fact or wicked perycrsion Of
Justice, and shew il to be so. M