The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-07-15


f-he-righ -prore-Ais-derotion
to-his-party Candidate for a seat in Congress ;
The following resolution was adopted at the
" Bankocrat'' caucus, holden at the State House
on Monday evening July g.
"Resotved, That we think it due to our respected
townsman, who is associated with Mr.. Burgess in the
ticket, to declare, that in our opin-
ion he is entitled to the cordial and hearty support
of every Wing of Rhode Island, not only for the
sound business talents which fit him for that station
but for the uniform zeal and unbroken fidelity with
which, in the darkest times, he has upheld our
Cause
Is 1t not humiliating to body of full grorn
men, needless of following end mortifying conse-
quences, far let their zeal for party oustrp their
prudence and judgement as to recommend to the
people as deserving of their support, for one of the
most responsible offices within the gift of the State
man without single necessary qualification, and
whose only claim is the " uniform zeal and unbro-
ken fidelity with which, in the darkest times he has
upheld' the " cause" of that pebad and heteroge-
neous party, whose cause" is opposition to the will
of the great body of the American People, and a
headlong determination to thwart and embarrass
every measure, good or bad, of the present popular
administration:
! " Sound business taients"i This is something new
under the SUM- We have never heard of this be-
! fore Is it facts it true that he possesses
s. sound business TALENTS which fit him for that sta
ton" which he arrive at never! If so, why
has he so long concealed them under a busllel or
somewhere else! Why not develope them Why
not by some display of them convince the doubling
that he has " sound business taents7 2" Better
proof is wanted of the fact, if fact it is, than the
mere assertion of his friends. What has ever eman-
ated from his pen to corroborate their assertion but
abuse of honest men and honest measures! If per-
severng defamation, through the columns of We
nal press of men his superiors in every thing but
rbaldry constitutes " sound business talents no one
we think will deny that he possesses them to an
extraordinary degree, and that he has developed
them wonderfully.
He can call President Jackson an old Turk in
his caucus speeches of five minutes long, and ayow
hs Willingness to suffer amputation of his right hand
for the benefit Of this party all this we suppose is
further proof of his sound business talents which
fit him for the station of Representative in Con-
gress! If so-if aspersion of good men, and the
repetition of absurd, unmeaning and frothy de-
caratiou constitute his sound business talents" we
; poor prospect of his ever having an opportunity
of displaying them the floor of Congress The
suages of the people of this are not to be won
by forced and abored defamation and vulgar abuse
!. of the "powers that be-
He has upheld their =" cause it is true Would
t not the wigs themselves blush to own what that
: " cause" is, and what it has been u! Has it not
been, at the south, the of John C. Calhoun.
j Geo. NJ Duffie and Of the drunken bloated and in
famous Poindexter-the "cause Of Notification,
: secession, and disunion-the anti-American Sys-
n TEN and Free Trade " 7" Has it not been,
: in the north, the " cause" Of Daniel Webster and
II consoldation-ofthe Hartford Convention Federal
e lists, of the American System and ant-Free Trade
Is it not the " cause" at present, of Notification
IS and of ossolidationl Is it not the desperate
d Cause of hungry and ravenous office -seekers-of
/ an unhalowed combination of reckless and disap-
e pointed politicians determined rule or ruin the
countryl-And for espousng these jarring and clash
IS ing causes he is now, forsooth recommended as a
i suitable person to represent in Congress.
i He has upheld their cause in the " darkest
$. times" is also true. When the British Bank the
=, mammoth monster at Philadelphia, in its pride Of
y might openly arrayed itself in opposition to the gov
10 ernment and by the aid of its vaults of gold, its
v, prncped and peusoncd advocates, and bribcd
re Legislators, welded a power and exered inau-
a ence which threatened the liberties of the coun-
= try, and alarmingly endangered existence
l. Republic-what was that I" cause" thcni When
er panic,' ;, pressure" and distress" then the
I'd watchword of that desperate party, swept over the
e land on the wings Of whrlwind-what was that
lie cause thenl When the country was gasPing and
al well-ngh stranged and suffocated in the viper en-
I'd circlng and crushing embraces of hideous monied
G. monster-when the gathering and long pent tempest