Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-11-26
"RHODE-ISLAND SENATOR.

If 1t seems from letters ichich zoe haze receipe
! from Rtode-Island, that the Antimasons hol
the balance of power between the friends G
/ the Administration and its opponents. "
think ii not improbable that tie Jackson part
lciU sustain IN THE END the candidate Of tn
! Antimasonic .party-because, in Rhode-Is
land, the g6fnities bet,ceen The friends Oft
administration and the .AntimasonS, is nluc
stronger and closer than 1t is Jet,ceen either Q
these parties and the Wigs. One of our dem
Iocratic friends closes letter upon this sub
ject with the following emphatic remark: M
man from the opposition ranks viN be electeG
Another letter says:-'Ihe Nationals are a
bitter IN their opposition 10 the .4ntimaso,is a
they are to as. u, therefore, ace run no ticke
an Hte spring, there ,oiU be an utter oveythroW o
.4ntimasoruy IN this Stdle.'"
The freemen of this State will have thei
own reflections upon the foregoing article
They will be at no loss to conjecture who
and of what character and standing, are the
letter-writers alluded to in the article. "Wt
think II not improbable" says the Globe, "thai
the Jackson party ,DiN sustain, IN THE END, The
candidate Of the .4nti-masonic party" Indeed!
Has not the Jackson party candidate of its
own?-and if it has, will not the Antimasonic
party support Jackson candidate?-and, if
they will not, is this a proofof the 'strong qE
fn'ties bet,ceen the friends Of The administration
and the .4ntimasons Of Rhode Island" 1t ap-
pears by this Globe article that there IS a
Jackson candidate for Senator, but that he
is "in the end" to be sacrificed. Truly, the
GLOBE is well informed of the intrigues of the
Office party in this State !; and well disposed
to aid in them. We suspect that the office
party and the Globe both are acting under Sc
cret instructions. The Jackson party in this
State is numerous and strong; and, 1--WE are
sorry to say,) it contains in its ranks some
highly respectable citizens. They have nam
ed their candidate. That candidate is man
of uncommon talents-of high standing, and
of more personal influence, by far, than any
of the party; and his influence has
been, and would have continued to be still
vastly greater, had he not himself sacrificed it
to his devotion to the Jackson cause. In him
the Jackson party in this State, lives and has
its being: and without him it would crumble
into atoms. Will the Jackson party be made
to surrender this real Jackson candidate, and
10 give their support to spurious candidate
who, on certain emergencies, has thought it
sxpedlent to profess himself to be anti-Jack-
ION ! Is the Jackson candidate man who
will suffer himselfto be duped, governed and
lefeated by four men whose whole conse-
Iuence has been given to them by him: and
Who, without his further countenance, would
I once sink again into insigniicance Will
e assist at his own sacrifice, and aid his own
nemies in their triumph over him? What
hen means the Globe by its broad hints that,
IN the end," this Jackson candidate is to be
bandoned !? What mean the office faction
ere by their open attacks upon this candi-
ate, whom they call "hte ten penny nail poll
cidn ?" The fact is that the Jackson party,
y an invisible agency, is changing its skin.
here is in the bowels of that party, secret
lice holding party, who are looking up to a
ew master, from whom they have their cue.
The .4nti-maSonic candidate alluded L, by
e Globe, land the Globe know very well
whom it alluded) is a counterfeit. With
,clusive Jackson men, he is one of them
it'll Antimasons, he is good Antimason-,a
ith the office holders, he is exclusively de- !
tied to Van Buren, and on more than one I
.casion he has secretly cndeavorcd to make ,
Ihigs believe that he is anti-Jackson, and !
'hig. When the resolutions disappearing
e conduct Of the administration, were pas d
ID in May last, by our House of Rcprescn- U
tives by vast majority, this non.descript ;,
ndidate took pains to give assurance to se- s
raj Wing gentlemen that, if the Senate n
oud be divided upon the question, he would s.
We his casting vote for the passage Of those >,
solutions; but he took good care not to be +
ought to the test. Such DISCUSSES cannot n
ng be imposed upon the people. This can 8,
date, although for at least three years past V,
arrive at the senatorial honors has been his II
eat and sole hope, aim and ambition, has 81
t, ever since the nomination of Mr. Potter, L.
etended that he had no wish to be Scna- o. o.
The was not a candidate, and should not Q,
. This was a necessary artifice: for he
III knew that ifhc avowcd himself cand-
te as long as Mr. p. was in the field, his
pes would be instantly annhilated. az
But there is one fact which stamps tho po- CT
cal character of this candidate, and strips W
of all disguise. Months ago he was select OF
and named for our Senator, by the friends ~
agents of Martin Van Buren,, in New ~ ~
rk and Albany. A number of respectable
izcns Of Rhode-Isand, who had supposed,