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

I for some time past. The writer is SO wen
known as a political weathercock whose
want OF Judgment, ever since the Pres-
dental election, has invariably placed
| him in the minority, indicating by his yar.
Gus sbiftings that the feet he sails with is
! fast drifting TO ieeicdrd, that no notice has
been taken of him by the friends of the ad-
ministration candidate for the Senate. ST.
lence, TO him, is death, and so he can but
be noticed he will not quarrel as to the hour.
We have been so thoroughly convinced of
the utter weakness Of a cause that could
bring no ADLER writer's to its support, than
this man, associated with an individual of
still less importance who shamelessly H.
bels the farming interest by calling him
! self a Rhode Island Farmer, that we have
not said n word about them, believing that
their weak attempts to inlure Mr.. Robbins
| and support Mr.. Potter, would be properly
appreciated by the rejecting freemen, who
should read thor productions, if any did
read them. Something, however, in the
shape OF new charge against Mr.. Rob
bins; having been made by this hypocrti-
cal =" friend TO the administration" in the
last Mlcrocosm, 1t may not be improper to
notice 1t as another evidence of the malice
that sticks at 10 falsehood by which some
imputatlon may possibly be fixed upon Mr..
Robbins to affect his election.
This writer among other nonsense says,
1t is even believed that Stephen Dexter
paid you (Mr. Robbins s 5000 on account
OF the seizure OF the ship Ontario, and that
another gentleman paid you : $50 on ac-
count OF another vessel. Certainly ; 5000
was great sum for a compromise with
the agent OF Mlnturn and Champlin If
this sum was received by you, who had it,
&c," Will it be believed man could be
found, who ought to know something about
legal proceedings, and moral obligation,
TO say nothing of common decency, who
would make such assertions as these with
out the slightest foundation Mr.. Dexter
Is highly respectable citizen of this town,
once extensively engaged in mercantile
| transactions, and by what authority does
this common slanderer drag such an indi-
vidual before the public in his anonymous
writings? Mr.. Dexter might have been
seen by this miserable scribbler in the Mi
crocosm before he made the assertion, at
any time, and questioned on this subject,
and yet he never exchanged a word with
hIm IN relation to it !! TO show on what
grounds this charge has been made, it is
sufficient to state that Mr.. Stephen Dexter
has since repeatedly said he never paid
Mr.. Robbins cent us the agen. Of Min
turn and Champlln, as the records of the
Court will show, the Ontario having been
regularly tried and acquitted by Judge
Howell in the District Court. There was
no act of the District Attorney about it.
So much for the truth of this assertion.
The : ESQ is no shape to be noticed.
ANn hpau, 80, .b,t l., I.
OF this infamous attempt of an anonymous
writer to accuse one distinguished citizen
OF direct bribery, and another highly re-
spectacle one Of having been the despca-
bic agent through whom the bribe was
given. In the name of heaven are there
no moral obligations in Rhode Island ? Is
reputation to be assallcd in this way and
public opinion to be influenced. by il? No!
there is moral Indignation, deep felt if
not loudly uttered, that will visit itself up-
on the heads OF these reckless slandcrers.
II man possessing even doubtful qualili-
cations for office had been as cruelty and
basely slandered as Mr.. II. has been, and
so ably and satisfactorily vndicated him.
sell, there Is so much generosity and mag
nanlnlty OF feeling in the people Of Rhode
Island, that the reaction against such op-
pressive measures, would have inevitably
elected him to the office for which he was
candidate even in preference to better
man in point of talent. BY how much
more then shall man thus as.ailed and so
triumphantly defended, possessing the
highest qualifications for the office. of DER
haps any man in the state, be elected to
that office by the independent and high
minded representatives of the people of
Rhode Island?
Such has been :he operation of public
sentihent in favor of Mr.. Robbins. In the
South West, the seat Of Mr. Potter's influ-
ence, and where we believe at this mo-
ment he is more unpopular (setting fear
and mortgage deeds aside than in any
other section Of the state, Mr.. Robbins has
gained ground visibly since the late de-
velopement of the deep rooted malice of
the individual who has vainly attempted to
crush him. In other portions of the state.
the friends of Mr.. Robbins stand firm and
confirmed in their determination to support
him. He is the administration candidate |
for the U. s. Senate, and his success is /
certain.
irFThis "fricud to the administra ton"
talks about arrangements made in Kent /
and Washington to choose a Senator. as
u the General Assembly had nothing TO |
do with IT. Pray who are these potent ar
rangement makers that are thus settling
the matter TO save the representatives the |
trouble, and how many offices are they ar
ranging TO be divided among themselves
IN case their arrangement takes effect p
There is little doubt after all that Mr.. Pot
ter is determined to try the vote, and the
talk about Judge Champlin or Mr.. Water
man or any body else is merely to throw