The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1820-11-15

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er---hrr very glance, like the sun OF
hraven, diffused light. and waynah. and
luSury around tin her public houry
tat,nie conccp,ered all its rays upon her
AVID When she shrunk from its too radiant
noon, il was Within the shelter OF a hus-s
bspd's love, which God and nature, and
duty and morality, assured her unreluc-
,ant faith should bc eternal. Such waS
SHIT then, all Jre and hope. and generous,
credulity. The crcduli,y tina, springs from
honor add from innocence. Ard who
could blame II? You had world to
chuSc, aud she vas your selection---
y"ar as-es ~eyY-sa,asatibt- your births
were eauai--to9 ksd drawn her from
The house uherr she was honorable aud
happy--,ou had a prodigal allowances
showered on YOU by tic people You
had bowed your anointed head belorc
the altar, and. swo.n by its majesty to
cherish and protect her, and tiiis YOU
did IN the pre- sence OF that moral nation
from whom you hold the crown, and ii,
The face ot tha, church of which YOU are
the guardian The ties which bound
YOU were Of no ordinary iexture---you
stood not III the situation OF some secl,is
ded profiigate, whose brutal safety
might leave its victim to a death oi soli.
tude, where no eye cuuld see, nor echr
tell he quiverings Of her agony. Your
elevation was roo luminous and too lofty
to DC overlooked, and She, who conGdcd
with vestaPs faith and a Virgins purity
IN your honor and your morals, had Z
cofroborative pledge III that publicity.
which could not leave hex to sufer or
be sinned againstin secret All The cali
culat,ops oi her reason, all evidence OF
her experience, combined their ccntirma.
ton. Her own paternal home was puri-
ty Itself, ard yours nigh, have bound
Republicans TO ~, ally il would have
been little less than treason to have
doubted YOU; and dh she was righ, to
brush away the painted vermin that IN
tcs, . Cssurt, who would have wilhercsa
up her youthful beart with he Wild er-
rors Of your ripe minority! Oh! she
was rightio trust The honor Of" Fair
tngiand's' heir, and weigh but as
u brcath-blown grain OF dust Thousand
iolles and thousand faults balanced a.
sainst the conscience OF her husband.
She did conide. and what has been tho
/?
History must record it, Sire, when
the brightest gem in your diadem shall
have mouldercd, tina, this Young. con.
iiding, inexperienced creature had
scarcely heard the last congra,,ilatory ad-
dress upon her marriage, when She was
exilcd hom her husbands bed bauishcd
from her husbands society and abandon.
ed to the pollution Of every slantcrous
sycophant who chose 10 crawl over the
ruin! Merciiul God! was it meet 10
leave human beIrg SO situated, with
all her passions excited and en6smed to
the impulses OF such abandonment I?
Was il meet thus to subjrc, her inex.
perieneed youth to The scorpion singing
Of exaspcreted pride. and all its modem
tai natural temptations? Was j, rel. 10
fling the shadow OF a husbands lrown
upon the theu unsulicd snow of her re-.
putatlon? Up to the blight of that all
whitening hour no human tongue dared
to asperse her character. The sun Of
was NOT then strong enough 10
quicsen into fie the serpent brood of
slandersrs: no starveIing aliens, no huGr
gry tribe OF ioca cxpectants, then hoped
10 fattcn upon the ofiais Of the Ro, a.rc-
pu,a,ipn. She was not long enough in
widowhoodto give the spy and the per.
Imer even color Tor their inventions.
The peculiarities OF the foreigner-,he
weakness OF the fema.e--the natural vi
vaciiy OF youthful innocence, could not
ben be tortured into "demonstrations
,trong"; Tor you, yourself. in your re.