The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1830-05-29

Of my sex yanishes before the necessity -o
my situation and aspirit. sir, as proud
as yours, although in ienaIe bosom, de-
mnnds justice at your hands ! ask Il
Return to him what you have rudely torn
from his possession; give back to his child
rem their former means Of securing their
food and raiment show that you can re-
lent, and that your rule has had at least
one exception The severity practised
by you in this instance is heightened, be-
cause accompanied by breach Of your
jaith, solemnly pledged 10 my husband. He
called upon You, ,toldyou frankly that he
had not voted for you. What was your
reply ! 1t was, in substance, this, ''that
every citizen ofthc United States had a
right to express his political sentiments
by his vote that no charges had been
made against maj. Barney If any should
be made, he should have justice done /; he
should not be condemned unhcard. p
Then, holding him by the hand with ap-
parent warmth, you concluded--s'be assur
ed, sir, ! shall be particularly cautious
how listen to assertions ofapplicants for
Office" Witt, these assurances from
you sir, tic President ofthe II UuitedStates,
my husband returned to the bosom of his
family. With these rehearsed, he wiped
away the tears Of apprehension. The
president was not the monster he had been
represented. They would not be reduced
to beggary--haggard want would not be
permitted to enter the mansion where he
had always been stranger. The hus-
band and the father had done nothing in
violation of his duty as an officer. II any
malicious slanderer should arise TO pour
his poisonous breath into the cars of the
president, the accused would not be con-
Lemncd unheard, and his innocence would
be triumphant--thcy would still be happy
1t was presumabie also, that, possessing
the confidence of three successive admin
istrations (whose testimony in his favor ]
presented to you) that he was not unwor-
thy the office he held, besides the sigma
ture of hundred Of our first mercantile
houses, established the fact of his having
given perfect satisfaction in the manner he
transacted the business of his office. In
this state Of calm security. without mo-
ment's warning-like a clap Of thunder IN
q clear sky, your dismissal came, and, IN
q moment, the house ofjoy was converted
into one Of mourning. Sir, was not this
the refinement Of cruelty? But this was
not all--Thc wife whom you have thus a
gonized, drew her being from the illustri-
Gus Chase, whose voice ofthunder early
broke the spell of British allegiance, when,
in the American senate, he swore by
Heaven that he owed no allegiance to the
British crown---one, too whose signature
was broadly before your eyes, affixed to
the charter Of our independence. The
husband and the father whom you have
thus wronged, was the first born son Of a
hero, whose naval and military renown
brightens the page Of your country's his
tory, from '76 to 1915, with whose achieve
r,ents postcrity will not condescend to
compare yours; for he fought amidst grent
er dangers, and he fought for independ-
ence.
By the side of that father, in the second
British war, fought the son; and the glori-
Gus 10Th Of September bears testimony to
his unshaken intrepidity. A wife, hus-
band, thus derived; family Of children
drawisg their existence from this double
revolutionary fountain, you have reckless
~, eauselessly, perfdiously, and therefore
inhumanly, cast helpless and destitute
upon the icy bosom Of the world; and the
children and grand children ofjudgc Chase
and commodore Barney ARE povcrty-strick
IN upon the soil which owes its freedom
and fertility, in part, to their heroic patri-
otism.
Sir, l would be unworthy the title Of an
American matron, or an American wife,
i'll did not vindicatc his, and my children's
wrongs. In this happy land, the panoply
Of liberty protects all without distinction
oface or OF sex. In the severity practis-
edtowards my husband, (confessedly with
out causc,) you have injured me and my
chiIdren-you have grievously injured
them without schieving any correspondent
good to individuals, to your country, or
Yourself. Silence, therefore, would be
criminal cvcn in me; and when the honest
and regular feelings Of the people Of this
country (who cannot be long deludcd)
shall have been restored, and when party
frenzy, that poison to our national happi-
ness, Liberties and honor, shall have sub
sided. I have no doubt that the extermina