The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1830-02-25

usurp for themselves the reins of Govern
ment; destroying afterwards the very en-.
gines which have lifted them to unjust
dominion"
"The unlineal and bastard sons of the
West"
In my humiliation, am willing TO imag.
inc myself an humble shrub near the earth,
not reached by this midheaven thunder ~
lightning. My associates are tall enough
to be within its magnificent range.
Was it aimed at the oak Of Kentucky
towering among the clouds, and more
within the range ofthe boltsof this mod
ern Jupiter Tonant? IL was an migrate.
ful bolt, and he who threw il, is not Of the
West! He is no native Of our magnificent
valley of the Mississippi.
You say the Percy is down, postrate and
decaptated! 1t was Fallstaf' thrust!
There is species of gallantry that al.
ways rises as its antagonist falls--revives
as the blood spouts from his jngular; and
pice versa, always sinks as he rises. This
species is always clustering, bullying and
hectoring in manner, micn and tone. 1t is
the true Falstaff order. II was an migrate
ful thrust in the thigh q Ia reare and be who
gave it is no native Of our valley.
He came to US uninvitcd-complained
ofhaving been driven by tyranny and per-
secution-desired our hospitality and aus.
pices, and little room to lie down and re-
pose. The Percy found him weak and
distempered, politically and nourshed and
medicined him. Put on him his own col.
lar and inscription at large, with a special
o. pointing to the words "cousn to the
Percy's wife,"
These gave him currency and consde-
ration; and introduced him to the grand
hunt.
Without the help of this collar and in
scrp,ion, il would have been ns impossible
to have elevated him to his present rank,
"a it would be to drag up from the depth
Of the ditch, by fra;l woollen thread some
ponderous and inert mass. Others thrust u
finger under the collarand pulled, who have
since had cause to regret it, and washed
their hands of the whole affair.
Tn what you call the fallen fortunes ofthc
assailed and in his acknowledged absence,
il was an ungrateful thrust. And why
was il made now, ut the first session Of the
new and promising Administration, and
before such an audience, attracted by this
partisan massacre and pillago-accompa
MED toosby full remuneration Of the A.
merican System--like the shrewd onimHl
in the fable, casting the lions hide into the
bushes, or Thersites pulling off Achilles
armor, and dashing it against the pave.
ment--in which there has been so much
roaring and so much glittering in arms,
on the western plains, for near fourteen
years.
Has it been observed that oil the prom =.
inent dogs, most distinguished in your late
grand hunt of the Kentucky Bison, all who
had first throstled the game, or sank their
fangs deepest into his fanks or his sides,
or hung heaviest at his tail, have been well
feshcd. and raised to the pcerage among
dogs? Was il noted that--"1hiS is the road
TO Byzaniinm?" .r..
Or has the Palace Constable been on the
rounds, and with his familiar tap on the
shoulder, given intimation Of an cxpecta
ton that new bond and security for adhe-
sion and fidelity would be sent up to the
White House?
would bolt, rather than give the al
ditional bonds of that stab, and that renun.
citation! %
II was an ungrateful stab, for but for the
kindness Of the assailcd, there would have
been no opportunity to have introduced the
Granduation Bill! There would have heer
no opportunity, after riding the noble spir
ited Kentucky steed until, surrounded anC
hamstrung by the Catalines Of the day, he
stumbled to the fall, of leaping with a true
circus somerset upon the back of,ho pnsal
lei and winning horse, and going on and
claiming the stakes! Are these paid, ol
are they still in prospectu? Was it adjudg
cd fair riding or gross jockeying?
The assailed stands to the assailant ir
the relation of Acteon to his dogs, that un
feelingly pulled down and devoured their
master who had kindly fed them with his
hands!
The minority in the West stand 10 the
assailant in the relation of the husbandman
to the adder found chilled at his door, and
when brought in and sufficiently warmed,
suddenly threw itself into coil, and stung
the favorite son of its benelactor!
We found the assalant of our characters
and our motives, a scrubby political scion;
and thought it a fruit-bearing species. We
nourishcd it, and it grew, when 10! it prov
ed political Boa Upas, and blghted and
dosolated all for miles around its stem!
And, not content with the triumphs Of the
past, the assalant of our characters and
motives has drawn upon his Imagination
and exulted in anticipation over the tri.
umphs Of 1882; with semi barbarian inso-
lence ofjoy that might have suited the age
Of Suwarrow; but which the modern Mich
d,s or Diebitsch, at Adrianoplc, would
have repressed or punished, had it been in
dulged over fallen Turk.
He has amused his audience in this the
atre, with description Of the minority a.
gain defeated, discomftted and nying--
nyc, flying, and measuring their double
milenue DER the earth-leapinr their fc.