The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-05-07
THE REpUnEACAN.
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day. At 10 O'clock, A. M. the procession
consisting Of Ills Excelleucy Gov. Fenncr
and the Hon. Legislature, will proceed
from Townsend's Coffee House under 4
escort of the Artillery Company, Col
Cronston, and The Independent Volunteers
Capt. Tripp, TO the State house, where The
votes from the respective towns will be re
ceived and opened, and the gentlemen who
are elected for the next political year vii
be proclaimed.
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We should be glad if the editors Of tie
Providence Patriot would re-examine, with
care, some ofthc articles they have recently
written in relation to us and this pa per, and
if the general cast Of two or three ofthoso
articles is not at war with their repeated ex-
pressons of friendship for us, then, indeed,
we must be as deficient in point Of under
standing, and TO the extent too, that they have
endcavored to make it appear. Those gen
tlemen have charged ns an heir paper with
being blockboads, boiling YER with zeal,
"NOT ACCORDING TO DEMOCRACY" ="
What is meant by these last expressions We
are unable TO understand They have also
charged ms publicly, ofsuffering evory or any
body, ia terms not altogether indirect, howev-
CT, 10 occupy place in our columns. Now
we put il TO The plain common sense and can
dor Of those gentlemen, WHITTIER such treat
ment is evidence Of friendship and kind feel
inrs? if il is, then We acknowledge we have
been mistaken. We aro sensible that these
kind of disputes between editors, are not only
unnteresting and Improbable to their read
ers, but nine tmos out Of ten, are disgusting
to lhom--ncverthclcss, such is the situat.
that the editors Of tho Patriot have placed us
in, we feefoursevos called upon To say Il word
or two in our own defence. when we took
this paper some three years since, il was n
well known fact that it came into our hands
under very uniavorabe and discouragng cir
cumstanccs. iuNior editor Of the Patri-
OF, who formerly had charge Of this paper, and
with whom we served our time, manifested a
strong desire that The paper might prosper in
our hands. Al that time, although somewhat
young aud inexperienced in political matters,
we laid down to ourselves as a rule (from
which we would not depart, unless somo OK.
traordlnary case in which the public good
rendered departure from it necessary that
the PRIVATE character of no person should
be ASSAILED, by or through US-and now
we positively declare, that in no single in.
stance, have we, in the smallest degree, de-
parted from that determination! Whence,
then, tho necessity Of tho Patriot editors en-
deavoring to make the public believe we have
injured the private character of the Hon Ma.
than Brown, and why need isase gentlemen, )
after the election had terminated, bring Mr.,
Brown before the public, when during the
pendcncy Of that election, they said nothing
in his favorI How happens it, that they all
1t once, have become so sensitive as TO at
lacks upon private character Have they for.
gotten that short time since, the private
character ola distinguished gentleman Of this
state was publicly assailed by prominent in
ividual in the most unrelentng lnanner--tbat
during those repeated public attacks, the ed
tors OF the Patriot did not publish great
deal Of their own in defence Of the injured in
dividual TO whom we alude, although that in
ividual was republican" =" and distinguish
ed for his talents, and possessed not only of
zeal but of kRo,cledge according TO democra
cy," as they would havoit
As for tho article in recent Sumbcr of our
paper, which las given 50 much offence TO the
editors of the Patriot, we must here observe,
hat when We accidentally omitted to give
Mr. Brown his title, those gentlemen fell a.
foul ofus most sharply, and thon, when we cor
rected that error, and gave him, as well rs
their appropriate titles, they re-
Dukcd us still more severely, and expressed
their astonishment that wo should have per
miticd such an article to have found its way
into our paper. We ask you is al this evi.
dcnce of friendship? They go on to state,
that the article in our last was written by
third person, and further, (unhandsomely we
should think) TO alludo TO that persons politi-
cal course in times past We are well aware
TO whom the editors of the Patriot refer, and
we deem il due to that gentleman to say, tina,
we consider that in his political course, he
has been as uniform and as consistent, as eli.
ther of those editors have, and has served his
party with quite as much zeal as they ever
did The oBenSioe article in our last was not
written by a third porson-it was written by
ourselves, wholly and entirely, and although
hastily written, we still were careful to OBJ.
serve, that it contained nothing but what we
then considered, if not even now, 10 be the
truth The editors Of the Patriot say, that Eat