The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-02-12

,imes. told them that they have no con-
6darce in his fitness for the station to
which he aspires--that they will not have
him 10 rule over them and these gentry
are now compelled to believe them, and
seem inclined 10 shape their course ac-
cordingly. Whose claims 'hen stand
next upon the calender Why whose but
his, who, if Mr.. Clay had succeeded
would no doubt, have filled the second
place in the Government. Who stanas
forward more prominently and VIII"
greater claims upon the Clay party than
Daniel Webster? He then is the man
from whose path even Clay must stand
aside. He is the man under whose ban
ner the flying and dispersed squadrons oi
National RepubIicanism are to be again
rallied. He to be the Joshua OF the re-
organized force g. to lead the chosen host
.thro' the wilderness into the promisediand
Are we asked for our reasonsf we
have them ready They are such as
satisfy US, tho their conclusiveness may
no, appear to others. As prelude to
the grand announcement or as kind OF
political skixnishing (pretty well under
stood in these times) previous to the gen.
eral battle, the President is held up to the
people as having abandoned his prlnci-
pIes viz the principles of democracy q
gone over to those Of federalism. very
likely tale to be sure. But invented mere
" for the occasion of giving MIR. w. the
oppor,unity Of courting the republican
party ofthe nation iy givinghis support TO
the principles Of the proclamation. That
not the shadow of Inconsistency may be
cost uDon their new leader. These, gem
,lemen would endcavor to make the Peo-
ple believe, that Andrew Jackson, who
fought for the union ia l776 who led it's
armies TO victory in 1916 and IN 1918, ~
who when he had turned the swrrd into
plouch-share g. the spear into prun-
ing-hook, gave the memorable sentiment
..thc Federal Union-it mus: be preserv-
ed" had for the first time announced his
determination to stand by the Union IN
his late Proclamation to the people oi
South Carolina. For ourselves, we are
at loss to discover any inconsistency
in the concert of action which we learn
will take place between the Presidentand
the talented Ioador ofihe oPPosi''"" 8" re"
gard TO Notification. We are glad to
find them disposed to lay aside the minor
subject which have heretofore occasioned
them to travel in different roads and
eyincing a disposition to march shoulder
to shoulder on the great highway oi the
Union, to put down the ambitious restless
and disappointed Nullifer Of the South
corru CAaoI,NA. We take the sub
;oiped article says the last Baltimore
Chronicle from the Norfolk Beacon oi
Yesterday, received by this morning. $
steamboat. We can scarcely credit the
in,imation-but if the meeting of the
NulIif;ers at the Circus. was indee"'
merely an 'expedient to gain time, II
will turn out in The end any thing hut "a
lucky one for the actors-as 'exped'ents
of that character almost always do. we
hone better things, even of the Nu'i'h-
ers-of whose discretion, as our readers
well know, our hopes were never very
sanguine. But here is the article from
the Beacon
IMPORTANT FROM CHARLES
TON.
Bv last evenings mail we received a.
no,hsr letter from a friend IN Charleston
Is. C.) dated 2o,h ult. TUESDAY last
Our correspondent says-'Ahairs peg'n
70 assume fearful aspect. and l am
npnrehensiye that in n few days, the
Military and Naval Force assembled
here win be called upon To act. IL is
believed, by many here, that the rec
concentrations TO tho people by the late
Nullfying Meeting, to suspend az ac'
ton under their Ordinance until 'he r.
sing of Congress, was mere expendi-
on, 70 cain time Z, mature their proPe'
rations, and not adopted good faith
In,imations having been gwen 20 W.. t"e
Government forces, upon good a"'noruy
that it would he well that they sno"'a