The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1834-11-12

gine which shall prove too strong for the people M
this contest, will continue in the hands of our ene-
mics for all future occasions and renewed with per-
haps double potency II we yield to any imagin-
ary expediency, aud permit the enemy to triumph
expediency will compel our compliance hereafter
The deliberate sentiments of the people will never
he more repugnant than they to the objects OF
the enemy the government to be supplanted will
never possess strongly than the present the af
fection of the nation.-With not as many represen-
tatives in our last legislature Columbus carried
to Spain for specimens Of anew race: if our ene-
mics can now out-number us, what hopes can we
indulge in any future contesti Ifsuch revolution
has within short year been effected by means of a
pecuniary pressure, elections are useless let us
abandon the empty ceremony, and forgetting, if we
can, the gores that past, prepare children,
(f we possess heart for the task endure the loss
of their birthrlght.
What motive shall we possess for depositing our
ballots Mt the polls If pecuniary pressure Is our
mastcrl We shall be like the inhabitants Of Lapu-
ta. They were governed by king who lived in an
island that hoated in the air. Whenever the peo-
pie became refractory, the king lowered upon them
his island, and the pressure produced speedy com
pance with his wishes.
THE BANEITES HAVE PLAYED THEIR
GAME DESPERATELY.
| Preceding elections have presented to us grea-
ter calamity, than the temporary msrule of our op-
poncpts the present election is to deliver us to
them in perpetuy. The game is great, and des-
perately have they played it. IL they openly as
sert the people will rather part with principles than
with money, we are indeed lost. The experiment
will be tried efiectually The seeds of distress and
ruin were sown widely and literally. We have
been ploughed with afflicton and narrowed with
anxiety. The exhausted laborers they travelled
homeward from Washington, could exclaim with
ThomsOns farmer,
" BE gracious Heaven! for now labOrous man
Has done his part"
They are waiting for the crop. With the people
is the increase, and the people them an abun-
dan harvest. Our opponents have enjoyed their us
ua easts Of ofancipation, while the reality, to which
the people are accustomed, is Fastening forward.
Come il must, and these tyrants in will, but impo-
tents in power, will stand exposed like gambler
who has shown his card, and been found to have
Dragged on an empty hand. Let them close again
their shops, and marshal their depcndants /; burst
again the arsenal and dragoon the Newly York vo-
tcrs the great inquest of the nation is approaching.
The oppression which has kindled my breast un-
prone to much excitement, cannot swcve widely
from the general and popular feeling. They
who had eye to pity, who snccrcd and laughed at
calamity must be rebuked. All the interests of the
state agricultural, commercial and mechanical, cry
for judgement. AIlthat is honest i'm politics, all that
is lovely in PATRIOTISM all that is desirable in self
government, call upon the people to scatter the dis
cordant factions, who, uniting for no common end
but the destruction of men whom the people honor,
have for months ragged like a pestilcnce. The re-
bukc will come---thc judgement will issuc-ihc pes \
thence shall be stayed and the people whose right
it is to rule, shall reign.
Grant even the position of our enemies. that henv-
en- was affecting us with wicked rulers would men oil
ordinary feelings have prowcd around the country
1t such moment, insulting the community w,th of
ers ofreIiefon condition ofpoltlcai apostacy Was
period of universal trouble the time To drive hard
bargain, and did indeed no kinder intentions move G
heir souls at our distress, than to plant their heels
lpon our necks Truly they asked too much, when +,
hey required that we should accept this calamity in +,
xchange for any other They calculated too strong n
also creduity, when they required that the
should be subvcrtcd by reason of the r
rcssure, and that they should be promoted for ar
it desgnedly and wickedly, when the d
'orst which they allcgc against the government is
nat it produced the pressure ignoranty. =
OF THE SCRUB NOBILITY. e
Had Satan devised system to debase mankind, 9
c could have produced no plan more eiicacious, c
ian that which estimates man by the qualities OF
is ancestors. A stammcrer may by effort become a
loquent; but when we required to overcome
he defects of ancestry, we are without motive for
Improvement. Nothing is more benevolent, nothing
more polite than to dignity the OBSCURE we thereby
Emulate to virtuous emulation thetcass of society
ich must ever constitute the mass OF every popu-
alton. " II
OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
The most to which our enemies pretend i'll any
controversy is the dement's of their opponents and
renee arises detraction of public measures SLAM
Ter of official servants subversvc of all confidence
N public documents. They have lately seized on
he post office with the spirit of spider who after
much watching has caught fly.
OF Major Barry, the little know entities him to
my gratitude, and to yours. Previously to Octo-
ber, 1880, the mails which were destined for New
Y York, and which arrived at Albany on Saturday,
had to lie there till Monday. man having note
to pay Monday and wishing to remit the money
by mail, was compelled to have his money in New
York by Saturdoy-rThe aggregate loss of interest