The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-10-26
NEWPORT,
GENERAL ASSEMBLY. The Gen

INST Ii cannot nave escaped the recol-
lection Of any of our readers, or of tine
friends Of the Administration in general,
that the election of Senator to Congress
for six years coming, will take place at
this session. We say, that the election
qcW take place, unless Mr.. Potter should
succeed in his plan, and get the choice
postponed to January next, as he evidently
intends to. We hope, however, that
the interests and wishes Of the fieemcn OF
II. Island will not be again sported with
in this way. II is high time that that man
should learn, that merely because he hap
pens to be Of the "uhole blood," as he
calls it, and is possessed Of all the infiu-
ence, which "bonds and mortgages" can
give him, that he is not to dictate to the
representatives Of the people, or TO. the
people themselves, the course they shall
pursue upon every political question. If
ever there was subject upon which there
was a spontaneous feeling in every part of
the State, it is on this election of Senator.
The people Of Rhode Island are warmly
and sincerely attached TO Mr.. Adams
and if they could have their voice in this
matter, they would send him the man
whose ability, integrity and political infor-
nation would do honor to the Senate and
efficiently support the measures Of his
Administration. Such man we fearless
ly say is the Hon. ASHER RoDBINs. Tho
representatives Of the people are bound to
respond to this feeling Of their constitu-
ents & they ,ciH respond to it, unless gross
ly imposed upon by the wiles Of Mr.. Pot
ter. Let the members OF the Assembly |
look to it--Let the people look to it.
--sSs--
MIR. POTTER'S plaintiffs gentle.
mans contrivance to get into the Senate, was
most ngcniously laid out, and might possibly |
have succeeded to wonder, but for two or
three obstacles. In the FIRST place, it was to
have been industrlously circulated by himself
or his pro1icS, that he was n staunch friend of
MIR Adams administration. This was bitter
pill to be sure, after all ho had said of the
Country Scho0t-mdster--the .fdams breed
old John adams Benedict Arnoid-polaieayt
dpoSfdte--SmdH TREAD MILL" and divers other
malcdictions and curses, which he had hcapcd
on the President, timo out fmind But Bit
ter us 1t was and thoroughly degrading To n
man ofany honor--swallowc it must bc land
swallowed it was. His stop wac TO draw
around him as many of the friends of MIR. hd-
ans as he possibly could-to keep perfectly
quiet and still, or ut least to be thou, hi so
and 10 let his friends hum and aa,o and pub
lcy say, that as TO MIR Potter's being n can
didate--why IT was out of the question Just
before August town.mecting, while the free
men were asecp--this member might be ma |
naged oaa, and that one managed an, until tho |
whole pack was cut, shuffled and sorted, to
give him, the great Mr.. Potter, the command
of the game But the Legislature, as il luck.
lly turns out, is made up Of other and very diff
feront materials In the mean time every Sian.
derous story that could be raked & scraped up
to viliiy Mr.. Robbins, from every place under
heaven, was to be diligently collected into ono
budget and thon as the election approached
on the very Friday preceding the Session of
the Assembly, the whole contents were To be
poured out without stint or mercy on his do
voted hoad. Or perhaps if this would not do
they were to have been stated by tho Hon.
gentleman in his own scat, on tho very owe of
The ballot, when it would have been impossi-
bic to lave said ono word, or to have raised a
single hand in defence of the accused Wo
VIII say nothing of scheme 80 unprinciplod
and unheard Oft is sufficient To remark, that
It actually existed What a pity for Mr. Pot
ter, that tho whole of this fine spun projec,
was bio1cn uP-Sky high, by two or three per-
verse fellows that wrote in the newspapers,
md thought the people, honest souls, had some
right to know, what the great ones were doing!
-..sAs-..
MORE CTARGES.-Mr. Potter, it is
said, has becn-busily employed in Provi-
dencc, since the beginning of the week, in
for publication, another manifes-
to, which he threatens, in his old style,is TO
dc,nohsh Mr.. Robbins We have nothing
to fear from mr.. Pottcr's assaults. and mr..
Robbins, as he has repeatedly shown, is
abundantly able to take care ofhimsclf. All (
that we wish to have noticed by the public,
Is the extreme unfairncss of coming out at
the last moment with budget Of charges,
when he has suffered three weeks to pass
by, without opening his lips. VIII the AS
sembly suffer mr. Robbins TO be treated
in this scandalous manner, and TO be do. :