Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-03-29
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! that is more difhcult to be understood Dy
the freemen than OH almost any former
! oc casion. We now see associations and
combinations of men Of the most discor-
dant views and professions, whose known
hostility to each other we should have
! supposed could not have been overcome.
! Yet we see these men uniting to defeat
the re- election of the National Republi-
, can Prox of General Officers. People
from the country often inquire Of me, and
: are anxious to learn, why the Republi-
can Herald, the leading Jackson paper,
| has begun to advocate the cause OF anti
masonry, published as il is by an adher-
ing mason of exalted rank, "a Knight
Templar;) why other active and high
toned masons OF the Jackson party, are
so frequently seen in close conversation
with the head of the ant-masonc party
and why both of these parties, through
their prints, are uttering the loudest de-
nunciations against the present State Ad-
mnistration! Extraordinary as all this
appears, there are facts, which, when
known to the people of this State, will
explain it. An article in the American
of the 18th inst. requires that these facts
should be stated, that the people Of this
State may not be further misled upon a
subject which the writer for that paper
knows to be the real grounds oftheir OPP
position to Governor Arnold and the Ma
tonal Republican Senate, and which
they so studiously have endeavored to
conceal from those whom they endeavor
to call to their aid. The success which
has attended the principal measures of
the State Administration, and which, one
would suppose, should commend it to the
support of the freemen, will be found to
be the leading cause for this very active
opposition to it.
/ We know there is always some bitter
: ness of feeling created by defeat, and
: there can be no doubt but that which was
felt by Governor Fenner and his parti-
sans on this account, the last spring, has
since been increased, by such reflections
} as must result from comparison natu-
: rally made between the measures, ,anG the
! results of them, which were pursued by
him and the Jackson Senate, and those
} which have been adopted by the party
who sue cceeded them. A few facts which
have been disclosed in the Treasurer's
accounts, showing the actual condition Of
the Treasury during the two years the
Jackson Governor served with Jack
son Senate in office, will show the ground
} for this modification of Governor fenner
: and his friends, and the consequent zeal
and bitterness with which they assail the
National Republican party.
1t is now seen by them, and they fear
it will be known by the freemen, that
when they came into Office, there was a
balance in the Treasury of light thousand
eight hundred and fity-four dollars and
five cents: 1894 10
And that when they went out Of
Office last spring, there was
/ but twenty-six hundred Sin
ty dollars fi!ty-one cents; 266O 81
Having reduced that balance $6l93 81
That the Treasury was then in debt to
the towns, on account of their appropria-
J tons for public schools, to larger amount
than there was money in the Treasury to
, pay; and that there had been borrowed
/, from the school fund, and the Treasury
was then in default to that fund, over
, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 1t
is facts like these that oppose the great
est obstacle to reinstating Gov. Fenner
: in power, and which make him and his
partsans willing to form the most unnatu-
, raj coalitions, to defeat the people in the
, reelection of the National Republican
candidates.
= There are circumstances which make
5 these facts peculiarly biting to Gov. Fen
ner. lie sees that the people will learn
! from them the deception he attempted to
! practice upon them the last spring, in an
= electioneering letter, in which he express
sed his strong desire to aid the public
, schools, s,-while he had, in fact, diverted
; and spent this large amount that was ap-
5 propriated by law to their support. lie
y knew that his course in the Senate, when
the public school act was past, l mean
his proposal, the effect of which, it was
understood, would be to postpone the
/ benefits of free schools for twenty years,
3, had led the people TO suspect hum, and
= he wrote this letter to remove their doubts.
: He now finds himself exposed to their
.displeasure, from his course referred to
In tnc Seudte, anu iIoi' VIC uuPhCNy I'LL
G this letter, in making such profession,
r when il is now seen he has actually drawn
y his salaries from the very funds that were
{ by law to be invested for the support of
Q public schools, under his advice and d.
$ rection. There is no possibility Of his
D escaping the odium that attaches to such
$ dercliction of duty, by attempting to
c charge the House of Representatives
| with matchmaking in il. lie knows it