The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1817-01-29
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STATE POLITICS.
rhoM THE PROVIDENCE PATRIOT.
TO A MEMBER OF THE CABAL

III a MEMbEH Or IHE CAbAL.
SlR-If this be the srst letter ever adde's.
sed 10 you in the public papers, it Is not so,
because your situation with regard to the pub
lie has been oniMportant and obscure,--or,
because your conduct in public life has been
OF cast so oqoivocal and uninteresting, that
II bids defiance, alike, both to censure and 70
panegyric. While, however, We sctxnoyl-
edge the i1lnaiies which -L-s S~~h done yul,
as 10 tho .sosmer,and, lamentiRg the want Of
the example, excAim against a forbesrance
% unmeri,ed, 0e have ample reason to re.
loice, that, as 10 the latter, neither yourself,
or ,he public, are Losers by the partial silenee
Of your friends.
But, take courage, Sir il 10 not yet too late
for one or the other. You are not yet arriv.
ee ); tina, period of life, when the eye, a.er
serve ,ssS wsS pact rifhec, satisfaction, turns,
for consolation, to the cheerloss prospect OF
posthumous fame. To mau of your pecu-
liar character; q recollection Of the past mus,
bring self-compacency, which few others
in your situation could feel: a complacensy,
which is fortified by authority end rendered
confident by success: and, for tho future,
enough Of time and occasion s,ill remains,
for the successful display Of your fertile gen.
ius, 10 the coalition Of hostile and invetcrato
parties, the distribution of places, and tho ex-
act eoun,crpoise Of jarring interests 1.-THE
Governors chair may, yet, perhaps, terminate
q career, which began in the less dignlted,
though more. eongcnial hustle of o town.
meeting.
However promising were tho talents dis
played by you, in that initiatory scene OF riot
and confusion, history, upjas, to you in every
L... 80. A~I
them the result, only, is known. You en-.
larged the circle Of your political necromsncy,
from town 10 the State, "ss' we haze
here omitted for certain reasoss, eighteen
lines cfhe rs. S.]sss'
1t is not, however, my purpose, to develops,
minutcly, that mysterious contortion oi artful
measures, by which 80 .fnofher o'nission
Of four ineS. 80 Permit me, therefore, to
begin at that, for you, auspicious moment,
when tho fortunate result Of general eiec-
,ion, had placed that party, whose cause you
then profcssed and now profess to sdvocstc,
in the full possession Of power, and ts COM
paro the measure, subsecuently adopted, with
the pledge which was previously given and
from this comparison, to estimate the bcnc-
fits which have resulted in yovr sd0,4nistfs-
tion os that power. ACE
The professed objects OF opposition to the
old ad mnis,rs,ion, were, in LEGAL affairs, to
amend and remedy the defects and abuses,
which had existed in, and crepi into the var
ieus departments Of the State Governmsnt
The fiscal and judicial branches seemed, par
ticularly, TO rsqsirs the salutsry hand OF i'm
provsmcnt and virtual, IL not cypress pied.
ges Of these necessary innovstions were Civ
en.-The public interest required, the peo'
pie expected them. A syssem Of finance,
adequate, yet economical, which would re-
store and preserve the public faith, pay the
outstanding debt, and support, with dignity,
tho necessary expsnces OF the goveromsnt,
while il allowed no sineeure emoIumenis; =
judiciary, independent enough to secure in
partisiity, yet subject to the Representative
sovereignty, as dernier resort against usor.
patton or oppression, were objects, 10 which
the wishes Of Ill good citizens Of both parties
wore directed.
That the reasonable expectations Of the
people have been d1sppois,sd, Is truth, the