The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1821-07-25

ship and OF neighboI hood, are combned with
that instructive ard mysterious connexlon be-
tween man and physical nature, which binds
the iiis perceptions OF childhood In a chain
OF sympatby with the last gasp OF. expiring
age, to the spot OF our nativity, and the na,u.
ral Obj ects by which il i, surrounded. These
syDpAlhies belong and are indispensable to
the relations ordaiued by nature between the
Individual and his country.--Tbey dwell IN
the memory sDd are indelible 10 the hearts
of the FIST settlers of dIstaai colony. These
are the feelings under wbic b the children Of
Isrss SAT down by the rivers OF Babylon, and
wept when they remembered Zion. ~ hese
are the sympalnies under which they " hung
their hsfps upon ,he willows" and instead OF
soDss OF mirth, exclaimed, " III ] forget thee,
. jerusalem, let my right hand forget her
cunning" But these ,ympaihies Gao never
exls; Tor country which we have never seen.
They are transferred in the breasts a the
succeeding generations, from the county oil
human Institution, 10 the country Ut their
biuh from the land Of which obey have on.
iy heard, 10 The land where their syes irst
opened TO the day. The ties of neig hbor-
hood are broken up, those Of friendship can
never be iofm med, with an intervening ocean
aod The natural ties o! domestic lie, the all.
subduing sympsihIes OF love, the indissoluble
bonds OF marriage, the hear,-r lvetted klnd
ness OF consanguioiy, gradually wi,her and
perish 10 the lapse OF few generations. All
the elements which form the basis of that
sympathy between the individual snG his
couGuy, are dissolved Long before The
Declaration Of Ind. pendence, The great mass
Of the people Of America and Of the people
OF Biiain had become total slrangera 10 each
other. The people of America were known
TO the people OF Britain only by the usnsac.
tions of trade by shipments of lumber end
f1xseed, indigo and tobacco. They were
known TO the government on'y by halle doZ-
en- colonial ageas, humble, and often spurn-
ed suiiors al ,ne feet of power, and by royal
governors, minioas OF patronage, sent, from
he foo,stool of throne beyond the seas, TO
fule ~ people OF whom thet knew nothing
as if an inhabitsnt Of The moon should de.
scend TO give laws 10 the dweliers upon
earth. Here and there man Of Letters aud
q statesman, conyersant with all history, knew
something Of the colonies, as he knew some
thing of Cochin. China and Japan. Yet, even
tho prime minister of England, urging upon
his omoIpote0t Parliament, lava for grinding
the colonies 10 submission, could talk, with.
out amazing or divertiDg his hearers, Of The
Island Of Virginia: even Edmund Burke,
mao of nero ethereal mind ahotogi=ing TO
the people Of Bristol 10, the offence of sym
pathizing with the d!stresses of our county,
tavsged by the Gre and sword Of BTioDs,
asked Indulgence for his feelings on The
score ct general humanity, and expreS.'y de-
clared, that the Americans Were Da,ion ut
ter strangers TO him, aod among whom he
was DOT sure OF having single acquaintance.
The sympaihies, thcTe lore, most essential 10
the commnuon of coSDlry, were, between
the British and American people, extinct.
Those most indispensable to the just relation
Between soycreigo and sub iect, had never ex-
is,ed and could not exist between the Bnist
government end the American people The
connection was unnatural and Il was in the
moral der, 40 less than in the positive de-
crees Of Providence, that /, should be disso!y-
ed.
Yet, fellow v-citizens, these are not the caus.
es OF the separation assigned in the paper
which 1 am about 70 read. Tho connection
between different portions of the same peo-
pie, and between people and their govern.
ment, Is come xion OF dwh:s as we'll as of
rights. In the long conflict Of twelve years
which had preceded and led to the Deolara-
tion ol Independence, our fathers had been
not less faithful TO their duties than tenacious
OF their rights. Their resistance had not
been rebellion. 1t was not rcsiive and un.
goveroable spiri, of ambition bursting from
the bonds OF colonial sIbieclion it was the
deep and wounded sense of successive wrongs
upon which compl.iEt had been only answer.
ed by aggrsva,ion, aud petition repelled with
contumely, which bad driven them to their
last stand upon the adamantine rock Of hu-
nan rights.
1t was then, ff'een months after the blood
OF Lexington and Bunker's Hill, after Charles.
town and Falmouth f ed by British hands.
were bu, heaps flashes, aG.er the ear of the
adder bad been turned TO TWO succs ssive sup
plica,ions TO the throne after two successive
appeals to the people Of Britain, as friends,
eoaHirymen aod 6rets-ea to which no respon-
Sive voice of sympathetic tenderness had been
returned
Thought but the noise Of drums and ,mbrels lond
''Iher chidrens cries unheard that psss'd thro fire
"To the grim ido."-
Then it was, lha, the thirteen United Colo.
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