The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1815-01-25
POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
FROM THE BOSTON CHRONICLE.
HANL'OCK-No. ".
TO the Republican Members Of the .NassGeLrsens Le


TO the Repu5Hean Members Of the .Massaslrsests Le.
. gistafnre.
The duties OF those who are entrusted with
the liberties OF the people is at all times arcu-
Gus and important but peculiar con'bina-
ton OF circumstances. may at soae period
give it an import of more than ordinary mag
nitude--a consequence of new and cventtul
character. Al such time, patriotism Ias-
ses It's seyers., ordeal. When difficulties
thicken every side when free Constitu-
tion is in danger of subyersion; when ma
tivnal confederscy is on the verge OF being
torn asunder, whose severance will prove the
harbinser of ruip, subjugation and oppression;
when revolution and civil war, the most DIS
astrons of all evils, are on the dawn of rag
ing with all their characteristics of horror !;
frmness, integrity and resolution are brought
to a test, which Will prove teir sterling cx-
telence. Then will the patriot, abandoning
every selfish, local consideration, stand forth,
and in his constitutional capacity use his last
effort, to shield his country from such calam-
ities. These considerations cam ., but weigh
heavily 90 your minds when they come home
to your situation. .tf
The Hartford Convention have at length
adjourned. Their manifesto is now before
Us; and what is its complexion! II commen-
ces win sickening, professed reluctance az
severing national union, which for fifteen
years, the whole faction TO which the metn-
bers Of this Convention belong, have iabored
to weaken and destroy, by sowing local pre-
iudices and fomentins party animosities and
Of abandoning Cons,,utIouy which for eight
years, the members of thls Convention have
systematically endeavored to render mere
dead letter, by opetiiy encouraging end re-
commencing resistance to lis demands and
the legitimate laws which it sasctioned aud
of pretended violations Of its spirit by the
measures Of Congress, which. have strictly
conformed TO its letter. The Report proceeds
in a whining cant of hypocrisy, and complains
that the General Government have abandoned
New England to toihsasion, when the Federal
Governors havo refused 10 call out the mill
tia TO protect her from invasion, at tie requt-
silion of the President; Of taxation, which
those who formed the Constitution contem-
plated, and which is equally, necessarily and
Justly appor,ioned of an exclusion OF the
opposition party from office, when the meni-
bers of this Convention began an indiscrimi-
nate exclusion of all republicans from Office
and employment under the Adams admins
,ra,on and after slightly noticing the old
iaded, hacknied, exploded charge of French
influence in our counsels, wiDds up with a
Recommendation, to alter, garble and cot up
cur Constitution into ounce pieces, unlil no
shadow or semblance of its features, charac.
Ter or virtue are left. Such amendments as
are recommended, would strike to the root
of cur na,iSaal existence, aud prepare the
way for monarchy and oppression. And
where is the rational, candid and rejecting
sL.s IN oftnrt r. Inv IN.
footed as il may be, embraces the views, the
intentions and determinations OF the Hartford
Convention No, gentlemen; the Hartford
Convention are not to arrive TO the consum-
NATION Of their designs by the deliberations
Of the people, by amendments OF Constitu-
tion. and a legal redress Of their complaints /;
ahis is not the course Of revolutionists. Their
own adherents arc chagrincd and dissppoint'
cd, aad The supporters os the government arc
disappointed with their moderation (; but let
il be RENE embered, that all movers OF revo'u-
tiou aud civil war have began with moderate
tone, and gradually prepared the public mihd
for their desperate plans.-Ihc destroyers OF
the Roman Republic, the very worst OF men,
talked smoothly of the peoples liberties,
while their arms we're ctimsoned TO their eI.
bows in blood, and they were sinking Roman
freedom 10 her eternal grave az Pharssla and
Pnilippi. Oliver Cromwell and Jack Cadc
talked Of nothing bu, ",he will of the Lord
and the redress Of sufferings and who gould
ever speak more plau.iby than the D,n,ons,
the monsters Of revolutionary France New
England is no, yet prepared tor the deep pro-
iects OF her internal enemies. Their Gag
eues are yet longer 10 go firth in the cause
Of revelation, teemios With inveetives against
oar Republican, institutions, oer union and