The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-06-26
Memoirs OF Rhcde-Island,
1854.

1864.
MIR. Williams, as President of tho coll |
ony addressed the General court, at
Boston, as follows. He directed the
address TO the Governor
"Proyidence 10Th, 8 month 55
$50 called.)
"Much honored Sir,
at is my
humble and earnest petition unto God
and you, that yon may be so pleased TO
exercise command ever your own spr-
its iha, you may not mind myself nor
the English of these parts, [onworthy
with mysclf of your eye) bu, only that
face of equity English aud chris,ian)
which humbly hope may appear IN
these representations following.
"First, Mayit please you to rcmem-
ber, that concerning the town of War
wick, there lies suit of 2000L DANA
ges against you before his highness and
the Lords of the council. doubt not
ifyou so please, bat that (as Mr.. Wins
low and myself had well nigh ordered it)
some gcntlemc, from yourselves and
some from Warwick deputcd, may
friendly and easily determine that af-
fair between You.
Secondly, The Indians which pretend
yonr namo at Warwick and Pawtucket
(yet live as barbarously if not more than
any in the whole colony please you to
know their insolences upon ourselves
and cattle (unto 20L damages perannum)
are. insufferable by English spirits !;
and please you to give credancc that to
all these they pretend your name, and
affirm that they do not (for offending
you) agree with US, nor come to rules of
righteous neighborhood, only they know
you favor us not, and therefore send us
for redress unto you.
Thirdly, Concerning four families at
Pawtuxet, may it please you to remem-
bcr the two controversies they have long
(under your nancy maintained with US,
to the constant obstructing of all order
and authority amongst us.-To obey his
highnesses authority in this charter,
they say they dare not for your sakes,
though they live not by your laws, nor
by your common charges, nor ours, but
evade both under color of your authori-
iy. BE pleased TO consider how insult
able it is for yourselves to be the OBJ
structors of all orderly proceedings u
mongst us for | humbly appeal to
your own VISIONS and experience, how
unlikely it is for people to be COM
PEELED to order and common charges,
when others in their bosoms are by such
sceming partiali,y exempted from both"
He then observes, that there were in
reality only w. Arnold and w. Carpen-
ter, "very far in religion from you, If
you knew ALL" who continued this OBJ
struction and all their plea for it was
a fear of offending the Massachusetts,
And says he. 81 conceive your commerce
with the people of this colony is as
great as with any in the country, and
our dangers (beng frontier people to
the barbarians) are greater than those
of other colonies, and the i'll consequen-
ces to yourselves would be not few nor
small, and to the whole land, were we
first massacred or mastered by them. -
pray your equal and favorable refiec.
ton upon that your law, which prohibits
us to buy Of you all means Of our nee es-
sary defence, of our lives and families ;
yea in this bloody and massacreing
2 time. We are informed that tickets
have rarely been denied to.any English
Of the country yea, the bar6arians,
though notorious in lies, il they profess
subjection, they are furnished: only
ourselves, by former aud latter denial,
seem to be devoted 10 be the Indian
shambles and massacres. The barba-
rians all the land over are filed with ar
tillery and ammunition from the Dutch,
openly and horribly, and from the En-
glsh all over the country bv stealth I