The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-03-06

tieians, for the very success which has
crowned his exertions in the advance
ment of the public interests; and that
the most important negotiations are m
terrupted bv the malice, jealousy, and
desperate ambition of disappointed and
factious leaders. Hitherto the Repre-
sentatiyes of our Government abroad,
have been sustained in maintaining the
rights of the country by its undivided au-
thority. And the first instance that has
ever occurred of the introduction of par
IN opposition to blast the success Of our
foreign missions--to destroy the conf
dence of foreign Governments, not only
in our Ministers abroad, but in the stnnd-
ing of the Chief Magistrate at home, is
given to the world by party combination,
produced by leaders who, while commit
ting the act, were deprecating, in ha-
rangues, the interposition of party influ-
epce to divide the national strength in
contests for our rights with foreign pow
ers.
All Europe now sees that one portion
of the Executive, to which our foreign
relations are committed, is arrayed a
gainst the other. The coalition Of the
Senate has struck down before the eyes
of enlightened nations, and at the first
Court of Europe, minister whose only
crime was that of obeying the instructions
of the Chief Magistrate, and securing to
them the most brilliant success. Hence
forth our Government must present a
divided front in all its transactions with
foreign powers, ifthe factions are suffer
ed to prevail. If our minister in his in
tercourse abroad, hereafter points to his
instructions as containing the principles
upon which the Chief Magistrate of the
nation is prepared to negotiate, he may
be told that the triumvirate Of Clay,
Webster and Calhoun, have assumed
other ground upon the subject. Should
our minister ut London, for instance,
propose the basis of an adjustment with
regard to the contest between the coun-
tries upon the subject of impressment and
the right ofsearch, he would undoubtedly
be told, that the coalition in the Senate
had denied permission to the President
to settle the difference by amicable me-
gOtiation, but had announced their ter
mination through their organ, the In
telligencer, to abide the arbitrament OF
"THE THUNDER OF CANNON"
1t willbc IN vain fo- our representatives
at.Foreign Courts, to insist that the Presi-
dent, and not the cabal Of the Senate, is
sustained by the people: that certain
Senators from Maine, New Hampshire,
Ohio, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, and South Carolina, had be-
trayed their constituents that the Vice
President was treacherous to the majority
which had elevated llim to Office :-that
even taking it for granted that those
Senators arrayed in opposition to the
President, could command that portion
Of their constituency, in their respective
States, which their vote represented, still
it was minority of little more than a
third Of the Union. All this will weigh
nothing in the consideration Of foreign
diplomatists, while they see the effective
power, so far rs it relates to transactions
with them, in the hands of the enemies
Of the Administration.
The aspect now presented by ouI
country abroad, lis that of contending
States and divided Government. Fac
tious leaders, operating ON sectional pref
udices, have arrayed one portion of the
Union in opposition to the other, and the
same leaders, whose adverse designs and
policy, have thus marked line ofsepara-
iion among the States, consent, neverthe-
less, to combine their partizan strength
in the Senate against the Chief Magis-
trate, that the Government itself, may be
manned and crippled in its action in re-
lation to other Governments. The sue
cess which has atte ended the Vaccinations
of tho bad men who have thus been en-
abled, through the perfdy of their par
tizans to their constituents, to arrest the
prosperous course of the present admin
istration, will, no doubt, be a source OF
satisfaction to the dynasties of the old
world. They will tester the partizan
split, which is now, for the first time ex-
tended to the theatre Of Europe, by a
mal-content portion Of the American
Senate. They will shake the faith OF
their people in the high character ofour
institutions and point to tho dissentions
of Colombia, and its Government shat
tered by tho intrigues ofconte ending chiefs,
ms marking out the destiny Of our con-
federacy.
The people of the United States will,
however, redress the mischief in the next
election. They will not permit a dan
gerous coalition of hostile leaders TO dis
honor the Chief Magistracy--,o disable
the government--to embody Northern,
Southern and Western leagues, and
make partition Of the political power a.
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