Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-01-05

PROVIDENCE. SATURDAY. JAN s.
ADMINISTRATION CONVENTION.

tno people OF the state, Hiendly 10 the present
administration Of the Federal Government. as
may attend the January Session Of the General
Assembly, are invited TO convene at the State
House in Providence, on Tuesday, the If
tenth Of January, 1928. at seven O'Clock.
p. NJ. 10 nominate candidates for Governor,
L.ieutenant-G o~vcrnor, Senators and other State
officers. for the ensuing year.
II will be seen by the above notice, that a
Convention o! the friends Of the National Gov
ornmont, or in other words, Of those Of the
citizens Of Rhode-Island who are friendly to
the present Administration, is to be holden in
tho Government House in this town, on Tues
day. the fifteenth day Of January. 1928, to
nominate candidates for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor. and other State officers, for tho en-
suing political year. commencing in May next.
The object Of calling this Convention. IS to
rally, and unite tho forces Of the Administra-
tionists Of the State, and to devise plans, to
enable them to cut off the designs Of the few
Of the Opposition party, who dwell among us,
and arc striving TO posses an influence which
they should not gain, and to remove fiom Office
those State incumbents, who are known to be
decidedly hostile to Mr.. Adams and his Cabi-
net, and Of course. opposed TO the great causes
Of Domestic Manufa ctures and Internal I'M
provements. Who the incumbents are, who
have been selected for removal, we are not
advised particularly, but W. apprehcnd, that
several gentlemen Of the Senate, who are
known TO be decidedly opposed to what is be-
lieved to be the true policy Of the State and
the Nation, have been marked, and we cannot
but hope, therefore, that the plans Of the Con-
von,ionists, will DO carried into complete exc
cutiou.
For our single selves, we cannot but hope,
that the Convention will act wisely, discreetly.
and thoroughly, and if they have the power,
adopt such steps as will lead to the removal
of every State officer, who is not Of our own
party, and has not been well and sufficiently
tried, and been found true and faithful to the
cause in which we are engaged.
We arc not unaware, that the adoption and
expression Of such language. and such senti-
ments, as we now express, will be secuted
by the Opposition. and the faction-that we
shall hear a doleful and lamentable story about
amalgamation Of parties, and of political pro-
scription. We shall be told, that parties do
not now exist-that we are all Federalists, all
Democrats, and that the refusal on our part,
to allow the minority an equal share Of the
loavcs and fishes, partakos of that spirit of
prescription, which was once decried by an
unpopular minority. as oppressive, injurious to
the welfare Of the people, and unjust in its
operations.
As for party, it never existed to a greater
extent, than it does at this day, nor is it con.
fined to mcn-it is based and confined 10 prin-
ciples, closely connected with the vitality of
the nation, and it is idle in that party which
predomina:es, and possesses the controlling
power Of the Nation, to suffer the minority to
interfere in their affairs.
The existing contest, though there be a deal
said about ADAMS and JACKSON, is not based
on men, it is based on principles and policy,
neither Of which can be adopted by the Oppo-
sition party-for to both they are radically and
intrinsically opposed. The Administration
party, as it is called. is governed by principles,
and by a policy, which the Opposition oppose
the former are for the american SYSTEM.
AND HOME PoLIer, the latter are opposed
to both; and although General Jackson is the
man upon whom they bang-and who is made
a tool Of in this contest, the line which divides
as, is not formed of his distinguished name;-
on the contrary, it is formed Of separate and
distinct notions Of policy, and of widely vary
ing principles In a word, the two parties
which divide public sentiment in this country,
are not contending for men-they are contend
ing for principles, not men," If this be the
fact, and no one will doubt that it is a fact,
then it it becomes the Administration party to
retain all the power they possess, or can COM
mand, and support no man who is not Of our
sido, aud who is not true and faithful to the
interests Of the country.
1t was the policy Of that great statesman,
whose political opinions have been quoted by
some as binding authority-Mr. JEFFERSON,
to support his friends, and to remove from
Office his political enemies. BY this rule he
acted, and though he went into Office, in OPP
position to a powerful minority. by pursuing
this correct and reasonable course, he strength
ened his administration, and laid the founda-
/ ton Of q system Of government, which has
| been the pride and boast Of the American