Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-04-17
NEWPORT,
Wednesday Morning, Apra l7h, 1893.
NATIONAL REPUELICANsi

The well being of your State is threat
ened by the parties combined against
you. Irthey succeed, and it is only by
your supineness and neglect to attend
the polls that they can succeed, the evils
10 our State will be incalculable. In the
first place, the State is to be subject to
IAnti-masonic domination. Now, that
party has shown itself totally regardless
OF the public good and to be intent on
one object only, namely, the political de-
structon of Masons. A great body of
our fellow citizens, as respectable as any
other equal portion of them, is to be po-
litically destroyed. Not only their equal
rights, as fellow citizens are to be ami
hilated, but the equal justice OF the State
is to be perverted the independence OF
the judiciary overthrown; s. both brought
into complete subserviency to the objects
of Anti-masonry. Will you suffer this
enormous evil to take place, when il is
in your power, simply by attending at the
polls to prevent it, You make yourselves
responsible in some sort, for the evil
which you might have prevented, if you
fail to attend there.
IT, by your suphcncss and neglect to
attend at the polls, the parties combined
against you succeed, another incalcua-
bic evil is to be inflicted on the country.
This State, so long the firmcst pillar of
the American system, will be lost to that
cause-ihat system which gives full EN-
ployment and good wages to all the la
boring classes Of the community. BY
undermining this essential prop of the
system, the cause itself will be ruined
the greatest possible calamity which
could bcfal the United States, and cspe-
cally this State, so extensively manu-
featuring people. Neither war nor pes
thence would be so great. It would
sweep this State with the bosom of de-
struction. Can any one, especially can
any National Republican, whose princi-
pies bind him to be the guardian of this
cause, stand by, fold up his arms, and
look on, while this intolerable evil is CO.
ming on us, when he might prevent it,
simply by attending at the polls, and put
ting in his vote:
Your present Governor You k''o'n-hc
has been tried, and found faithful to the
State he is pillar in support Of our
cause and the cause Of the country
Arc you willing to have another man for
Governor, when you can so easily pre-
vent il, who has no political character
whatever; or, if he have one, nobody
can tell what it is? Is he National Re-
publican? lie was one, apparently, until
he permitted himself to be run as n cam
didate against Gov Arnold. If he is
one now, he is traitor to his party. Is
he Jackson man ? he has always vo-
ted against the Jackson party, up to the
time when the Jackson men offered to
run him against Governor Arnold. Is he
an Anti-mason' He has always voted a
gainst the Anti-masonic party too, up
to the time that they took him up for
candidate against Governor Arnold, af-
ter their scandalous bargain with the
Jackson men. What does all this prove?
Why, that he has no fixed principles in
politics whatever-that his object is to
be Governor and that he is willing to
profess to be any thing that will aid him
in the attainment Of that object. Then,
what are you 10 think Of his honor, as
man. He said himself, he could not IN
honor, consent to be nominated as n cam
didate against Gov. Arnold. Yet he did
consent to accept votes against him, and
to accept the office against him, if elect
ed. Can real honor thus palter and c.
quivocate?
The VfcroRy is in your hands Or,
this there can be no doubt. You have
only to say, one and all, it shall be yours,
and il is yours.