The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1815-01-04

PeaSe, suu tue ptohts VI peace were 100 pow
crful in the United States, for those who
thoughl with Mr.. Rutedgc. Much was said
sbou, PRINCIPLES but, il was the love of the
freffs OF peace which prevailed over every
other consideration---Thc Americans have
now seen enough TO convince Them, that il
would have been their soundest policy 20 have
have taken s:se side or the other, long ako.--.
What they wished for was neace ard COM
merce a;fh all shs world but they have now
found, that, to enjoy some peace. they msst
be prepared TO have some war and that 10
enjoy independence aud freedom, they mus,
make themselves respected in arms.---lf tho
war should end without eur doing something,
approaching very nearly 10 tho snejusaGon of
Ameries, il will prove most calamitous war
to Us. Because II win have added immense
ly to oar debt 1t will have left US, horribly
sxhau,,edi twill have given France time
OF psare aud ecouomy wherein to recover her
won,ee means Of mesting Us by land or by
sea- IL viii have snads the Amsricaas both
military and naval nation Il will have Civ
en- to these two nations the most powerful
motives 10 close connection, dictated by
their mutual wants and safety ; il will have
rendered America not only completely inde-
pendent Of us,as to the manufactures, but
will have implanted in the bosoms of her beo-
pie hatred sginst U, never TO be removed
or modificd.-lE indeed, we were 70 subju-
gate Ameica, to nuke the states again our
colonies or we're, a, least TO destroy all her
ships of war , raze all her forti6catiohs .
supula,e with her meyer again TO MAKO cam
non, ball, or pound Of pow dor to place
IN our hsnds, as guarantees, all her principal
sea.ports, and all tho mouths Of her rivers D.
snd 10 abstain from every sort Of manufacture
In the county. IL we, were TO accomplish
either oil these, we might have littlc,o OPP
prehent ss TO the consequence Of five OF
six years war sRains, America. But, II wo
accomplish neither, how will the case stand :
Why, thus; she will, singte handed, have car
ried on war against US. Sho will havcy
through the world, tho reputation Of having
been able, alone, 70 6eaf England for, &C.
defend herself against US is, in such case,
to beaf us. Other nations, sore at the sight
of our prcdominancc on the sea, will look Up
to America - TO balance against us. They
will naturally seek connection with coua-
try Offering irrenumerable sources of bcner
fetal intercourse. She, whose products are
so abundant, and so much in request oil over
the world, and who holds out such great sd-
yantsgos 70 .evcyv man of cntcrprixe will
have all the world, England excepted, Tor hec
friends. No nation will envy or hate her bac
England because, 70 every other nation, thq
increase Of hcr population, her produce, her
comnetce, and her naval power, must be sd-
vantageous. She may, and she doubtless will
suffer much in this war. Many of her towns
viii be knocked down thousnnds Of her peo-
will be greatly injured. But Ii she keep ON
launching ships of war, as she 10 doing az
present, she may have q score Of ships OF the
line and forty f,iga,es, st the end OF q six
years war, manned with such officers and
sSiors as those whom we have already seen
afloat, aud TO whom we have hsd the mex
pressible modification to see SO many English
ships strike their flags, after contest the most
desperate and bloody. If this were 10 DO the
cfIee, of this war Of drh6biny, how should we
have TO cause those malicious writer's, who,
for so many months, have been iabourtng To
cause this nation 10 bcIfvc, that Il will only
be u holiday undertaking TO drub, to humble
and to subduc the American nation! ~ an,
swar, that there is description OF mcn In this
country, who say, that, even with ell these
possible, and even probable, evils tor Us, we
ough, 10 have undertaken, and ought how 10
proceed with The war, I" because, (says these
fpep,) even If these evils should como wffh
tho war, ,hsy would all, or M lcast the worst
of them, come syithoas il. Not to have un-
dcrisken the war, or to put stop to u pows
would have been, and would now be, 10 leave
the Americans in possession Of ell the means
of augmenting their naval force, and, wha, =
Of sill more consequence, 10 the enjoyment
Of real freedom, and OF happiness unparallelsd,
under republican government, at once an ek-
ample and an asylum to all the di'loyal of cv,;
cry country in Europe. Leaving her thus;
she muslin the present state oi mems mnds'
prove the destruction OF all kingly govern
Dcn,, and Of every hierarchy in the world.
Therefore, even failure in the war 10 no OBJ
lection TO psrscvering In II, seeing that the
worst that can arise out Of the war, nsnss arise
on, Of suffering ,h:s repuolic 10 enjoy peace,
especially With the reputation tbit. she has sc'
or'ircd on that element, the absolute domin-'
ion of which we haze so long claimed. When