The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1816-03-06
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THE late war has afforded the people Of
the United States one of the most useful les
sons, and has rendered the expression of
President WAsBInGToN eminently emphati-
cal: "tbe unity Of government which con.
sti,uies you one people Is also now dear to
you" That war has proved that Ga gov
efnment founded on political equality can ex-
ist in season Of Trial and diffic uliy." 1t has
proved that the government can successfully
resist the assaults OF The enemy from with
out, and az the same time the machinaiiops
Of the foe within. II has disproyed the as
scrtions Of The advocates OF the Har,foi Con-
vention,, who feully and necessarily repeated
tha, Government we're without spirit, energy,
or wisdom. The nipions of tha, party eff
fectcd 10 penetrate with their jaundiccd cyo
and forstell the destruction of the admins
tration, and that party anticipated the mean
and inglorious triumph Of their country's ru-
in. We may recollect tha; it was not the
paliry tax OF threc-pencc per pound on tea
which brought on The war of the revolution,
but the principle Of resisting the power
claimed by the BRUSH government, that they
had right to bind Us in eli cases whaieyer.
So the last wars with Britain and Agiers
are convincing and decisive proofs, that the
dignihed and commanding government Of
the United States will pay tribute to no ma
ton on earth, as the price of commercial in-
,tercoufse with independent nations. would
ask to what reason can il be owing, that after
so much enquiry as 10 the views and ultimate
designs of the Hartford Convention that tho
actors in that monstrous attempt to effect
revolution, while We were at open war, have
adhered 10 a. death-likc silence. I put is
fully and distinctly to them, are they in such
a dilemma as, that ii they attempt defence
they may from their own mouths be con-
demned, and ifthey stand mute before their
country do they not acknowledge themselves
convicted Of o conspiracy against the cons,i.
tuted authorities In Europe revolution has
succeeded to revolution. AZ length the wish
cs Of the advocates Of the Hartford Conyen.
tion have been gra,ihed in the return Of tho
Bou,bons; under no former ,yrants were tho
condition OF that people more hopeless aud
dcpiorable, while the prince, like the tyrant
who wis.Ied the people Of Rome bad bui one
neck that he might sever II at a blow, so this
idol, called king, has put down the press,
that il the people groan under their suffer-
ings, they shall not be heard. Should wa
not think those TO be finished villains, who,
intent on the commission OF arson and bur-
glary, should first gag or otherwise silence
the wstchmen to prevent their giving the a.
larm. OF infinitely more importance is the
press TO the liberties Of the people, than
wa,chmen TO the safety Of The town. l put
u TO those benevolent gentlemen whose sem
sibili,ies not long since were all alive in fel-
low feeling for the French people. Is there
not OF this time single 6bre in their hearts
capable oI being tuued to sympathy seward
suffering Frenchmeo 90 upder the mild reipo
Of the Bourbons."-Or is The present eordi-
tion Of France an excmpli6eaiion Of the gos-
eminent intended to be established in New.
England by . revolution sided by British
force ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
- CONNECTICUT N0MIA.dT7oT.