The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1827-05-02


ginia. Having suggested such objects as
he thought might well engage the at'en-
ton ofthe convention, Mr.. Jefferson says
have thrown out these, as loose leads
Of amendment, for consideration ana cor
rectlon and their object is TO secure sell
government by the republican, SIN OF our
constitution as well as bv the spirit oi the
people, and IT is to nourish and TO PER elu-
ate that spirit. | am not among those VINO
fear the people. They, and not the men,
are our dependence for continued II, edom I;
and, to preserve their independence we
must not let our rulers load Us VIII per-
petual debt we must make our election
between economy and liberty, or pr9tuslOn
and Serritllde. five run into such debts
as that, We must be taxed III our meat and
our drink, in our necessaries and our COM
forts, in our labors and our amusem6 nts, for
our callings aud our creeds, as the people OF
England are; our people like them, must
come to labor l6 hours in "a, give the earn.
ings of ID of these to the government for
their debts and daily expenses; and the
10th, being insufficient to afford Us bread,
we must live, as they now do, o. oatmeal
and potatoes, have no time TO think, no
means Of calling the mismanagcrs to ac-
count but be glad 10 obtain subsistence by
hiring ourselves 10 rlvet Their chains, on
the necks Of our fellow sufferers. Our
landholders too, like theirs, retaining IN
deed the title and stewardship of estates
called theirs, but held really in trust for the
treasury must wander like theirs, in for
hn taI
ury, obscurity, exile, and the glory Of the
nation. This example reads to us the salu-
tary lesson, that private fortunes are de-
stroyed by public as well as by private ex-
travagancc. And this is the tendency Of
al human governments. departure from
in one instance becomes a pre-
ccdcnt for I'd, that 2d for Sd, and so on
til the bulk of the society is reduced to bC
mere automatons Of misery, TO have 10 SEN
fblIltics left bat for SHINING and suffering.
lnrn begins indeed, the bellum omnlum in
ofAnia, which some philosophers, observing
10 be so general IN this world, have mis-.
taken tor the natural. instead of the abu-
sivc state of man, and the ioreborse Of
this frightful team is Public Debt. Taxa.
tlou follows that, and in its tram wretched-
ness and oppression.
Sloop William. of East Gre nwich, r. !.
-ailed from Providence on i. ursday, and
,ucn of Kinnlmicutt Point the captain,
Miller, was knocked overboad by the ID
sheet blocks in a squal, and d, wned. His
on, Of eleven years Of age, Who was the
ooIy person on board, cndeav'red TO bring
'Ac sloop to, but without effect, and she
trlfled on shore. The lad was saved and
he vessel unlpjured.
Miss Kelly, who was performing at Gin
cinna;i, Ohio, on the 10Th inst fell through
I trap door which was carelc. sly open at
he back part Of the stage, and hurt her an
Gle badly.
L,rEuARv.--Mr. Cooper,s new Novel,
'' The Praire," is to be published in about
a fortnight. The author is still in Paris,
attending to its publication, Of which FIVE
editions are in the press to APP car snul
taneouSly, one in England, two n France,
in French and English one in 7 ussia, and
one in the United States.
Very gratifying intelligence las been
received from tho Sandwich Isla ds. The
labours Of the Rev. II. Bingham at Woa-
hoo have succeeded beyond the no ost SAN
guine expectations, many ofthe natives be-
ing able to write, and read the scriptures
translated into their own language. The
whole population have destroyed their idols
and abolished their former impro.t. prac-
tees, Capt. Jones of the U. $. SIN Pea
II
ligence Is ljtcccvcd, has effected some ar
rangement with the Chiefs of Otaheite, by
which ma, of the evils complain of by
our countrymen engaged in the whale fish
cry, &c, in the South Seas will be re moved.
The celebrated traveller and accom-
P,shed commander, Capt. Basis Halt. of the
British Navy, has taken passage for the
United States, and is expected to arrive
shortly in New York.
On the evening of Thursday the 10Th
INST. the village of Geneva, says the Palla.
fmm, was visited with the severcst gale of
wind, accompanied with rain, that " as ev-
er experienced in this section. several
were seriously injured, chimnies
blown down, and fences prostrated III every
direction
We never observed any thing more ap-
paIlng than tins storm. IL came or sud
denly about sundown, anu lasted bu' few
moments, though the wind was occasional
Iy high during the night. A roaring like
thunder was heard in the woods TO the
west, when instantly tho hurricane swept
by. The air was durkened with tor, ents
OF rain, nnd the strongest buildings ,rem-
bled 10 their foundations. TO its shor, con.
tnuancc we may attribute the little dam
age that was done.
ROCHESTER, y. VT is a remarkable
fact that in population ofncary S0Or. not
one adult person is a native of this village
The ol ldeSt person now living who was horn