Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-03-14

hat he could not, with honor, stand be-
fore the people as candidate adverse
10 him. He knows, we may believe too
well, at the present moment, that the
reasons which weighed with him then,
are not less strong now.
He cannot but be aware, that the in
cumbent against whom efforts are making
to place him in opposition, has heretofore
assisted to secure for him the confidence
and support of the National Republicans
of this State-that he was principally in
strumental in bringing his name before
the people, in 1881, as candidate for
the office of Governor-and that it was
by his decension, that he himself was
induced to run the political gauntlet. 1t
was not until Governor Arnold's friends,
in reply to his resistance Of their earnest
entreaties to stand as candidate-in-I
formed him that he had been chiefly in
strumental in procuring Mr. Francis's
nomination-that his declension, and the
consequent disarrangement of the party,
would be justly charged upon himself
and that if he refused to suffer bis lame
to take the place Of that of his friend
the National Republican party woud be
in measure disbanded-we say it was
not until these arguments were use' that
Governor Arnold consented to become a
competitor for the Office to which le was
SO triumphantly elected, and the duties
of which he has discharged with such un-
firing faithfulness and ability-with such
honor to himself, and so much to the ad-
vantage and satisfaction of the State
He accepted with reluctance, therefore,
the office into which he hai struggled to
place his friend. We might refer here,
to the agency, also, which the present
Executive had, in procuring his nomna-
ton to the Convention at Baltimore
where, if we are not in error, he himself
nominated Henry Clay for the Presden-
cy-and to the uniform favor extended to
him from Governor Arnold's political
friends, on occasions which he must find
it difficult to forget. With these state
mcnts before him, therefore, the reader
will doubtless readily come to the con-
cIusion, which we find ourselves utterly
unable to resist, that Mr. Francis-sup-
posing possibility, even, to exist, of his
final election-can never so far surren-
der the honorable principles which Ma
tional Republicans have sanctioned with
their confidence and support-as to stand
candidate for Governor, in opposition
to Governor Arnold.
One word as to the parties who have
nominated Mr. Francis. Ifthere be any
Of our readers-no matter Of what party
or sect-who do not see through the po-
litical bargains ofthe day, we would SIM
ply say to them, that the barter is toe
plain to be disguised, even when but
slightly examined. The Anti-masoniC
leaders, have resolved to purchase
through those Of the Jackson party, thu
votes of the freemen Of this State, to fur
! ther their peculiar views and sectarial
tenets, in the gaining of one branch
y power, while on. the other hand, the wir
movers of the Jackson party, in return
are to receive the assistance Of purchas
;. ed Anti-masons to enhance the success
of their operations in another branch
In concluding these remarks, which W
J have thrown hastily together to day, W
/ can only say, that We have as little be
/ lief that the honest freemen of this Stat
l will submit tamely to such management
, to this transfer Of voters, while their re
spective principles are merged in .bos
$ which they mutually detest-as we have
: that Mr. Francis will become the victil
, Of such an unprincipled and heteroge
J nous combination.
President Jackson's Inaugural Az
dress will be found on the first page {
this days paper.
t The Emancipator. We have recci,
d ed the first number Of very neatly e,