Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-04-14

character Of that administration 10 whicn
he deserted; nor did he leave us, until
he had given assurance that he went
over to the enemy, because the Presl-
dent had seized and removed the public
money, from the national treasury, To a
treasury selected under his own direc-
tion. lie followed the sound and the
glitter OF gold and the silver, and has
the glory of being the only man, in the
State, or the United States, who chang
ed his political creed, because the Pre-
sident had seized, and changed the de-
posise Of the national treasure. In the
purest family on earth, one was, by the
promise of pieces Of silver, seduced to
betray his master; and Jm one has, by
such, and by other promises, been aIur-
ed to desert, and TO sell the cause Of his
State, and his Country. Ifin our revo-
Iuiionary Struggle, the American peo-
pie were justly proud, that one traitor
only, was found in our country, the State
Of Rhode Island may be equally proud,
that one only has been found, in our
present struggle to preserve the consti-
tuition and Liberties of our Nation.
You, my fellow-ciiizens, will, you
succeed in this election, have a Lcgis-
lature which will send to the Senate Il
Wing; Il man who will keep his eye on
the people, not on the Presidential Pal
ace. If you fail and are defeated, n
Tory must represent Rhode-lsland in
The Senate of tho Nation.
" ho will be the man we shall be anx-
ious to know? for among the greatest
evils there may be some choice. Last
autumn, Gov. Francis was announced in
New York, by the Albany regency, as
the Jackson Van Buren Candidate.
In one month utter the meeting Of Con.
gress, the members Of the New York
delegation, announced that their man
would be the Hon. Dutee J. Pcarce.-
He was, as they said, the only Jackson
man who could carry the Antimasonic
votes o. Rhode Island. How was this
fact, if it be a fact, made known to
ihem' Doubtless by the declaration of
MIR. Pearce himself. In this he was
soon after apparently confirmed by the
fact, that those votes could not be OBJ
tained by MIR. Potter. This man, there
fore, could with some color Of probabili-
ty, boast that he carried in his pocket
the whole vote Of those gentlemen
They were his, he might, and unques-
tionably did say, and no other Jackson
man could control them' Nobody here
believed they would, in any event, vote
for any Jackson man. AT Washington,
this was unknown, and Mr.. Pearce was
thereby enabled to get a nomination
there in that cabinet, where he has
doubtless, duiing the last session, held
some considerable station. On this
ground, Mr.. Van Buren, doubtless, "a
greed to withdraw his friend Governor
Francis, and give him directions to aid
MIR. Pearcc. No difficulty was then in
his way, but Mr.. Potter, and he could
not be influenced to retire by either the
Albany regency, or the culinary cabi-
net at Washington. lie was resolved
to stand on his own ground, and go
through with his own controversy. To
Mr.. Pearce he owed certainly no mon
cy, and how could he owe him any polit-
ical aid? lie had stated in the hall Of
Congress, what MIR. Potter denied TO be
true concerning the Lowell letter; and
thus the lie, not circumstantial, bat di-
rect, hanging over the head Of one Of
your representatives., and must fall on
him with all its foul concomitants, unless
he could dodge, and let it fall on his car
ly and constant political friend, Mr..
! Potter. What he dared not hope to oh
tain by any course of scheme and pro-
ject, has, without any effort, apparently
come to his aid Mr.. Potter is now laid
on that bed from which, in all probabili-
ty, he may never more hope to arise to
mingle with the tolls and cares, the
hopes and fears Of mortal Governments.
Who can look on him in this enfeebled
condition, and not feel how utterly unsub-
stantial, how less than dust and ashes, are
all mere human powers and human ef-
forts. have, for years, seen this man,
standing strong and high above other
men; and much like some mighty oak in
the forest, where other trees looked low
and little around him. Who can forget
how, in his other days, he served the
Slate with high efficiency and better
purpose. Full well do remember him
when wayward councils in our Nation
brought disastrous commercial restric-
tons, and more disastrous war on our
country; restrictions and war alike rui-
nous to the interests and adverse to the
feelings and principles of this State, and
of all New York. Ii was then that he,
in the Hall of Congress, stood side by
side with your highly esteemed towns
man, your own beloved Jackson, and
with him withstood and repelled from N
York the hostile and almost war-like ar