Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-04-29

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If we ofthe north are more prosperous
than they Of the south, it as lily becomes us
to chuckle amidst our prosperity, as it does
to sncer at their misfortunes, and to insult
them with our SCOTS. Newport, once the
most flourishing and promising city in the
Union, by reason of the calamities inciden-
tai to a long and arduous war, in which she
participated with hertreasures and her blood
has been blighted in her prospects, cut off
in her hopes, and left to contend with the
hard hand of adversely. There was a time
when wealth and commerce gave her an en-
viable rank among the cities of the United
States, and marked her as one destined for
future greatness. The canvass Of her ships
whitcned every sea; and her commercial
relations were bounded only by the unex-
plorcd r~cgions-and she was emphatically
the metropolis Of America. But assisting
to achieve eur independence, she sacrificed
her treasures, and that War that found her
in the enjoyment of all that the productive
ness of trade, and the results of enter
prize and industry can afford, left her de-
S olatc and ruined
The temples erected by the munificence
of her citizens, for the worship Of the AL
mighty, were sacked and converted into
barracks by the barbarous enemy, and her
habitations, reared in ali the taste and mag
niicencc of European splendor, were sa-
criliccd to the flames, and their contents
thrown into one common heap of lumber.
Thus were a people, who fought for the
liberties of their common country, despoil-
cd and scattered around the world, friend
less and tenantless; and they who a few
years before looked around them with
elated hearts, and bcheld nothing but ode
lightful Pleasures" heard the last clangor
of arms, and the acclamations of other
communities proclaiming the dawn of
rEAcE, only to behold in bolder colors the
horrors of their ruin.
Hapless, and without friends, d.yested
of their means, they became Respondent,
and as the incentives to enterprise had fled,
they exerted themselves no longer to re-
build their once beautiful city. Taught
by the calamities of the revolution, that
whenever war should visit the Repablic,
the insecure situation of the harbor, would
leave the town exposed to the inroads of
The foe, capitalists who had heretofore
looked upon Newport as an advantageous
site for commerce, no longer directed their
views that way, but diverting their funds
through other channels located themselves
in this vicinity, and Providence grew and
hourished on the ruins of Newport.
And shall Newport, because she has
been unfortunate, be ridiculed and anathe-
matized, and her population be set down as
incapable and deficient in intellectual re-
sources! An honorable mind rcvolts at
the suggestion, and decency bushes at the
idea.
We cannot prevail upon ourselves to
close this article, without repeating that
there is evident and gross impolicy in the
attempts made by the Editor of the Jour
nal, to excite local jealousies, between the
two sections of the State. The south,
though smaller in numerical numbers, than
the north, retains a supremacy of power
in our domestic government, and it ,cW re-
tain it, until by compromise and concilia-
ton, VIC can induce the citizens of that
section, to yield to US an equality Of repre-
| sentation:-But this never can be done,
whilst the press is employed to excite their
hostility, and to array them against U.S.
Let us then approach them with extended
hand and "%reason together" and by hon
orable and mutual compromise, dispense
equal justice and equal liberty, and con-
vince them by our department, that we SYM
pathise in their misfortunes and ale ready
to participate in their troubles.
Fourth ofJaly Orator. The Hon. Will
LIAM HuSTER. has consented to address