The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-01-31

THURSDAY MORNtN0, JAN. oi, ic<o.
ADMINISTRATION PROXIES.
The following list of officers was recon.
mended to the Freemen for their support,
at meetings, holden in Providence, on the
evenings of the 18th and 18th inst.
HIS ExcELLENcY
JAMES FENNER,
GOVERNOR.
HIS HONOR
CHARLES COLLINS,
LIEUT.. GOVERNOR.
SENATORS.
JOSIAH WHITAKER,
Of PrOridencs
9 NATHAN NJ. WHEATON,
Of Warren.
3 BENJAMIN SMITH,
4 STEPHEN B. coRSELL, IL ~"s'''""'
Of Portsmouth.
Of Gloesster.
6 ELISHA WATSON.
of S. KingstOpn.
7 THOMAS WHIPPLE,
8 CHARLES ELDRIDGE,
Of Z. GreeHr0ieh.
GEORGE D. CROSS,
Of Westerly.
10 GEORGE BURTON,
or CraRstoR.
HENRY BOWEN. Secretary.
ALBERT &. GREENE, attorney Gen.
THOMAS G. PlTMAN, Gen. Treas.
-..SSS~.-
We often have cause 10 regret the incon-
veniences to which our narrow limits subject
us. But we have seldom felt these inconven.
ienecs more sensibly than we do today,in not
being able to publish entire, the admirable
address of the Virginia anti Jackson Conven
tion. This candid, moderate, yet powerful
and eloquent document, must produce convic
ton in every mind that is not so clouded with
prejudices, as to be inaccessible to truth Il
after reading this hand aeriting on the odh
Virginia still hesitates which of the two "a
choose, thenthe daysof our republic are nun.
bered, and its subvcrson is at hand 1t is
mystery to US how any man, we'll disposed to.
wards his country, can wish for the success
Cen Jackson. Yet there are many who il
despite Of all the revelations which have bee.
made of his private and public character, cor
tinue to support him as tho best man amoa
us for the office to which he aspiros. Faci.
that can neither be doubted nor denied, have
been poured forth IN floods, overthrowln.
completely his pretensions on the ground Of
civil capacity and requirements Day after
day for the last three years, predictions Of e
vii, based upon the experience of the pas:
have been solemnly pronounced-but all l.
vain. Thousands, whose understanding az.
pears to be enveloped in worse than Egyp
tian darkness, still confide in the talents, mo.
ieration, and prudence of Gen. Jackson, and
are determined to elect him President if they
can. There is something almost unaccoun,
able, something like destiny in this blind A..
tachment to dangerous man, an attachment
that, in the sober language of reality, may be
compared with the infatuation of that mon.
arch ofEgypt who notwithstanding repeated
warnings, madly encountered plague after
plague, until his folly involved him in fna!
ruin. God grant that this country may nev.
er incur fate as wretched, by the same in.
difference to the prophetic voice of truth.
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The editors ofthe Providence Patriot seem t.
ho MT j;t,ia ,,ra yod n, Tho ,,ro,oJ ,o L,,o ..
ken with respect to the state election. We are
strong administration men. and we most sin
cerely hope that our friends Of the Patriot
will not compel us to lay before the public
the reasons wh ':h have induced us to the
course we have determined to pursue. We
ask the editors # the Patriot, ifthe Conven
ton Of the l6f inst was composed exclusive.
ly ofrepublic os Of the Jeffersonian school ?
Was there ~ thing in its organization or
character, ich should entitle its proceed
ipgs to NOR weight with the Republican par
ty, than tn 70 Of the conventions of the 18th
and lsth' Where is the old republican par.
ty? Where are the men who used to coun-
sol and direct its destinies' Are not many Of
them TO be found associated with, and com
pletely Influenced by the notorious enemy of
open.dealing and democracy ? Are they not
aiding and abettng him in bis avowed HOSTILE
ty to the present administration Do not
nineteen twentioths Of the freemen Of Rhode
Island anxiously desire the reelection Of mr.
Adams, and are wo not in duty bound to pre-.