The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1814-12-15

Tie YANKEES aTH0oed without fdVny Tor that
too The public seem very impatient 10 see
the drubbing begin. The Times and the
Courier have been endeavoring to entertain
them for long while, and until they, as we'll
as The audience, appear exhausted. But is il
not reasonable that The public should, in this
case, as well as In all others, put down their
money hrevionsfy TO the drawing Up of the
curtain 10 year or TWO, perhaps, We shalt
see the drama commence in good earnest
But, II is not enough TO be amused with a lit
tic dancing and tumbIing on the outside be-
fore we have paid our money -" Send
Send away," says The eager editor of the
Times, " send away force 10 crush them
at once :" But not a word does he saw about
the fares necessary to pay for The sending
and keeping up OF such force. Our gov
ernment Is composed Of wonderful clever
men but they are not clever enough TO
make soldiers walk upon the waters over the
Atlantic, nor TO enact, at word, loayes and
iishes 10 sustain them after their arrival. To
be able TO send that /" overwhelming force,"
oil which The Times speaks, The government
must have money and, as in all other cases,
they must have The money .frsf. In short, il
IS unreasonable in the extreme 10 expect the
war IN America to be attended with any very
signal result, until We have Literally paid TWO
or .hrcc years Of taxes. The assertion is
again made, that the American ships are
manned principally zviM Enshsh, Irish and
.Scofch. find this assertion in the Morning
Chronicle Of the 9th inst. If this were true,
as ] nope il is not, what pleasant and hon.
oiable fact this war would have brought to
ligb, /! No other than This that many of
xt,e nas, 4 sE~
daunted sons OF Neptune" not only have no
dislike 10 The Americans, but actually have
run the risk OF being hanged, drawn and
quartered, for the sake OF fighting in the A.
mcrican service against their own country
II the world believe these accounts, what
must the world think of us {! During the long
war in which France was engaged, no French
men were ever found in arms against their
king and country. Some Of them, indeed, en-
bodied themselves under foreign banners TO
hight, as they pretended, at least, for their
country, and against those whom they called
the usurpers OF Its government. But, If these
accounts be true, our connirymen have voL-
unfairly gone into the American service to
fight against their country, that country be-
ing under the legitimate sway of the glorious
and beloved House of Brunswick
= The origin of these accounts, so disgrace
fu' 10 the countfy, Is, probably, the reluctance
which our naval officers have TO confess de-
feat at the hands OF those Yankees, whom we
wcse SO desirous to see dru66ea. To avoid
this painful acknow!edg il has been as
serted, that we have not been beaten by the
Yankees, but by our own brape ooun,,ymen.
But here, again, difficulty arises Tor how
comes il TO pass, that OUR own brave county
men have more success on board Of Yankee
ships than on board Of our own heart of oak
How comes it TO pass, that the men, on both
sides, being Of precisely the same race and
education, those IN the Yankee ships should
beat those in 90 the wooden walls oil Old Eng
land Z" II has been Observed that they fight
more desperately, knowing that they fight
with halter a6ouf their necks.--Wbat an as
persion on " the sons Of Neptune J" AS il
tho sons of Neptune, the gallant Jack Tars Of
Old England, wanted halter round their
nscks, and the gslIows and executioner's knife
before their eyes, to make them do more In
battle than they are ready TO do for the sake
Of their king and county, and from senti-
mcnt OF honor I! This is, really, giving cruel
stab TO The character Of our sailors but such
is the sorry malignity Of those who publish
these accounts OF reasonable practices, that
they entirely overlook these obvious infercn-
ces, in their anxiety to get rid of the SUPPOSE
tion, that any thing praise worthy belongs TO
the character OF the enemy. If these accounts
be true, as hope they are not, why are not
the traitors tried and executed! Why are
they suffered to remain in the American ser.
vice? Why are they suffered to so on thus,
shooting. at, boarding, and taking our ships,
insulting our gallant officers, and putting our
men in irons Why are they not; ask again,
tried and hanged Why are not their warm
bowels ripped ou. and thrown in their trailer
GUS faces Why are their bodies not cut into
quarters, and those quarters placed at the
kings disposal But, had forgotten, that
before these things can be done, VIC must
eahinre the ships in which they sail Is there
no other way of coming at them II were
we'll If those, whose business ii is TO enforce
the law against state criminals, would fall up