Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-04-11
ADDR ESS.

AT large and respectable meeting Of
National Republican freemen, held by
adjournment at Durioe's Inn, in Ports
mouth, on Tuesday, April Cd, the fol-
lowing Address to the lreemen of the
State, was unanimously adopted:
n ..We feel assured, fellow citizens, that
you will not take it amiss, and we trust
will not deem it Improbable, that we
should ask to confer with you at this time,
upon the political concerns of the State:
and upon the measures best calculated to
sustain the cause and the principles in
which the people of the State have here.
toiore manifested so deep an interest
\ 1t is not a long time since that cause
was cherished by us all as the great cause
Of the country The cause with which
the best interests of the people were in
separably connected. 1t then, in this
State, had no opposers-no enemics-at
least, no open OF avowed enemies. But
now it is assaied with as much bitterness
as il it had fallen into the hands of host
o.! nullitiers, sent among us from some
hostile region, for the purpose Of prostra
ting it and its supporters. And, what
would most surprise us--if any thing in
the conduct of party men could create
! surprise, we find in the foremost ranks
, of its assailants, many who were hereto
fore among its most jealous, if not truest
supporteIs.-As if no cause is ever 10 be
held sacred by political ambition, and
/ the lust Of power
/ We have no disposition TO rebuke with
harshness these new adversaries Of n
cause, once their own, and but recently
deserted by them. We had much rath-
or, by calm reasoning, and mild pcrsua-
sion, endcavor to convince them that
their present hostility to that cause, how
; ever injurious it may prove to the public
good, can never be made profitable to
themselves.
4 Let us then bring back to their minds
few Of the prominent occurrences whic'
first united us and them in the grea
cause of National Republicanism. The
recollection will, we trust, bring with il
and rovive in them some, at least, OF
: those patriotic sentiments and feelings,
which they were then proud to cherish
! and express. We all remember that at
the close of the last war with England,
the two great parties, whose icuds had
n for so many years divided and been q
scourge to the nation, magnanimously
cast from them all feelings Of animosity
and cordially joined together to ENJOY
and cultivate the blessings of peace, ant
the prosperity of their country. 1hen
[ the whole people became what MIR JET
ferson had sixteen years before prom oun
ced them to be-thcy became in reality
"aH Fedcralisis and all Republicans"
was during this wholesome state OF tn
public mind-when every principle-cv
ry feeling of every bosom was purel
t. American; it was then that the NATION
AL REPUBLICAN administration was form
G ed under the presidency Of the late vi
e Monroe. In that administration, tactic
found no place. Ii was truly the gov
= ernment of the United Siates. If thcr
was then any party whatever, II was tn
ct National RepuJHcan--thc american par
tie ty. There was then none other. An
the leading principles which formed tn
,s basis of that American party and admin
a istration, were attachment to the Union
.. Is to the neutrality-suspicious. to Amer
= can industry in all its brdnchcs; g the res
toraton of credit, public and private: b
restoring a sound, uniform national cuI
= rency, in the place of n base, deprccIa
ted paper currency, supplied by irrespor
ncc sible and i'll managed local banks, troI
which the Government had suffered
~ loss of millions Of dollars, and the pcoPl
ten-fold greater injury.
- The measures adopted by Govcrnmen
in conformity to these principles, wei
en- what constituted the american Sysfen
ell and these were the governing principle
- throughout tho administration of "
Monroe, and his immediate successor =
- And when, at the end Of twelve year
~ General Jackson succeeded to Mr. AZ
= ans, the Goveinmcnt-or at least, u
Congress of the United States still ialt'
fully adhered to tho same American pc
- icy, and principles.-An so iikcwi
did the people Of this State, with almo
perfect uannimity iirmIy al
wv steadily, to cherish that great cause ar
those principles; and to elect those to o
flee who had shown themselves to
their staunchest friends and supporters
- And now let us pause and most ser
ously ask-Arc the people OF this Sta
prepared TO abandon this great Amoric'
cause and those principles! And, IL tho
arc not, can they approve OF the Prcso
unnatural combination against them, al
-- against those who have proved thcr
selves to be the true & tried friends OF tn
causep We appeal TO all those Of whatc