Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1827-01-20

nc OeuoIoi AUecWOiy h"v
agreed to organize new spPreme. Jo.'
diciar Couss, u be composed Of one
Chief and two Associate Justices. the
frat 10 have 4 salary fix hundred and
CITY and Tie iatter FIVE handred and
fifty dollars per aunum. to BE- paid out
ofthe State Treasury. II ID time that
the old Court which has only SUBJECT
ed the state 70 diagrace and ridicuIe.
was dissolved. and lis members sen,
to their homes but il Is to be feared
th,t the appropriation made for their
successors}eill not snsure the services
Of those men whem the friesds Of the
bill intended it should command, and
therefore defest its object.
The House Of Representatives pass
ed the bill with the blank filled with
eight hundred dollars, and sent n to
the Senate, who concluded, very sage
ly. that Isaac Wilbour. Champlin, and
Remington, would continue on the
Bench for q much smaller sum, and
that neither tho rights Of citizens, the
4 hsnour Of the state, nor the astonishing
stupidity and Ignorance Of these men,
would balance the dimes and dollars,
which the bill would take. from the
Z Treasury. They therefore shaved the
salary down to the common standard
of our state p1y, and branded the bill
with that parsimonlous hand. which
marks their .Isings and cliaracterizes
their every act.
The Senate, one third part Of which
is elected by the County Of Provi-
dence the county Which is to be most
benefited by this reform. destroys the
bill /; while the House, in which that
county have not 80 great a proportion
by more than half, originates and pass
esthe bill Will the inhabitants ofth
metropolis talk longer about their own
ilberal views, or the illiberality Of 9th.
er parts Of the state Their mem
bers, one from Crsnston and the other
from Johnston, both of which towns
join the town Of Providence, voting for
the reduction of salary, and only re-
strainedfrom moving an indefinite post :
ponement OF the bill, by knowledge
o. he opinions Of majority Of the
Senate, while the members from Keut
and Bristol, who have les. business,
although as warm wishes for the hon.
our of the state, put forth their strength
fer ne assistance Of their neighbours.
1t woule be unjust in us TO impugn
the motives Of Messrs. Brown ane;
Field. who we believA acted according
to H. best u heir information, which
is limited to degree well calculated 10
astenish tie NEST credulous; we will
rather pity their ignorance, and be
charitable enough not to wish them a
trial for their lives. by this Court of
their own making, although they are
guilty of cruelty numbering the fair
fame of the state, admitting that malice
is a component part Of that crime.
The resolution Of the Vermont Leg
islatirs, in regard to slavery, is thus
per,ineut!y noticed by the Governour
in bis message
"sThis is an additional instance, in
dicating that states like individuals, may
fal, into the common error of believing
that they better understand and with
more skill end to greater advantage,
could manage the concerns Of others,
than .sey dIspIay in their own trans
actions. THE reason is obvious. They
'as:e 'iuta partial and imperfect view
Of apother's afairs, without the advan-
: .age Of being possessed of the whole
gtoiird.. May not this he the situatiop
Of the non slave holding states, and car
hey not, without trnnscending the
snodesiy Of nature" fairly presume that
this subject, IN sllits bearings, is fully
u understeod in the South ?
We do not entertain any feminine
approximations OF danger. But the fre-
e1eat and misguided proceedings Of in
5,ylduals, societies and siaies, iu other
sections Of our country, relative TO
this question, demand from us sleep
less vigilance. These unauthorized,