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

sassin bad last winter struclhis heart what would
have beenthe feelings Of tIrnationi Yet dshonor,
worse than death, was, soughtobe inflicted upon him
and the perpetrators ask heeward OF our sufirages
Are they mad, or have tbeyso long abused their
conscience with calumny aginst him, that they be-
lieve their own cOnceits1
! The President is competet to his own defence
When the giants of the Sense piled mountain on
mountain to subvert him, hi protest overwhelmed
the rebeous spirits under ne mountains OF their
creation. There let them Ii, blghted monuments
of i'll directed ambition! III has nothing TO ask Of
his countrymen but affection; nothing to fear, but
their disapprobation. Yes ne thing more he has
to fear, If he should act unyprthy-the upbraidings
OF his conscience, for tarishing'a reputation OF
whose lustre history furnishe but few examples He
will stand erect amid the tempest of politics, though
1t shall sweep before all ee that enemies de-
sire to PROSTATE. Him it annot injure. Ills sun
has passed its meridian heSlt, and the hemisphere
is bright with nothing but it fast descending glo-
ries.
This nation will, howeve not forsake a man
whose only crime is inf1Gible accomplishment
OF the public will. Nothing ives the position doubt
but the mad confidence of The enemy Yet the
same enemy have ever exhibited the same conf
dence Like quadrupeds wlO exhibit every spring
sort OF sexual frenzy, opponents are subject to
an annual political frenzy. 1t is real Orgasm,
approaching gradually, becoIing boisterous In the
latter part of summer, exhibiting its highest parOx-
ysms during the last days of )ctober and subsidng
suddenly early in November leaving its subjects
exhausted and helpless.
! OF THE PRINCIPLES OF THE OPPOSI-
TION; AND DURABILITY OF REPUBLICAN
DOCTRINES
The political principle of our opponents are not
more adverse to the socil character of man than
they are to the permnency OF our institutions.
History is full of the wreck of such constitutions as
they desire to infict on u.s. and while they predict
anarchy from doctrines, the most which they
promise from their own, is prOtraced decay and
lingering dissolution.
But shall man never ry the experiment, OF wheth-
cr he can live under equal privileges !-Must we
be in haste to assume hat our institutions are too
benevolent for our nature, and we not, after
all hope shall cease. submit to the inequalities
which have ever abused and debased the mass Oh
menl Till that evil cay, the party, under Whatever
name it may be designated, whose principles tend
most to equaise the political condition OF the rich
and the poor, the high born and the low, shali re-
ceive my support, through good report and through
bad in its prosperity and its adverslty IN Its mis-
takes and in its corrections
will believe that majority OF our fellow Gil.
Zens think with me on those important subjects ana
as our enemies have Jailed TO win us to their
power by love, so they will not subdue us by
pecuniary pressure. *..'
How mpIacable must be their aversion to the
spirit of our institutions, that motive OF interest
or ambition land their efforts for power evnce their
ambition,) can induce them to amalgamate IN sem
timent with the of their fellow citizens and at
least to try scheme of government which they
ought to know cannot he subvt red How strong
y biased alt0 by Prejudice nV5 be their Judgment
hot uo expgrierce can RESTRAIN them from tilehope-
css auouri experiments II uymg by some petty
,hange Of name to cYadc the settled hostility Of the
.ouatry % UiuH principles!
In the present contest, they keep themselves and
heir doctrines studiousy out OF view. They talk
# Furnishing executive usurpation but not word
bout wrestling the government from the hands of
hc democracy, They seem to be yet ignorant
hat this result is repugnant to the people than
NY other which is in controversy. If the present
lection placed nothing at issue but whether gene
al Jackson should be sustained, gratitude for his
ervces would lead the people to sustain HMM
isnation against the means by which his opponents
eek power, would lead the people to sustain him:
but the controversy would not possess the inter-
st which now pertains to it. The people support
General Jackson because they thereby support prin
ples which they deem essential to the permanency
# our government and to their own selfimpOrtance
Is individuals.
We called Jackson men, but Jackson may
With more propriety be called our man. Like the
lag which Lawrence nailed to the mast, we retain
General Jackson i'll his position, because the reten-
ion decides whether the people shall be surrendered
% their enemy, or remain ascendant. Jackson will
De sustained! In this blessed land human nature
may yet strive to improve its condition. The blight
my principles of aristocracy cannot be forced from
us, to arrest the thrilling experiment, of equal pri
vileges to all men. And may Heaven, in mercy to
humanity, guard our experiment and
this our Eden, till he who alone will ever, trust
wear crown, the King immortal, shall merge
time into eternity A. B. JOHNSON.
RHODE-ISLAND REPUBLICAN.