The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-04-08


and disgrace was the farce carried, that oc-
casion business was suspended and shops shut,
decorated ,cnh the iaS gna Of mourning, while dis
tress convention of some sixty or seventy Bank rid
den panic n,rkors, was convened IN the old Town
House devisng ways and means. by which they
might deceive the people and frighten them into the
support of Nehemiah r. Knight, In addition to
those wicked and uniusiable measures, the country
was inundated with the most vile and nccndiary
publications. and peRic orators sent into the different
towns to preach ruin and distress.
Amidst these scenes the Bank the source Of all
these fctitiousproceeding curailing heracc
modatons opressng the state Banks, and threaten
ing to destroy them i'll order to compel the people
TO Join in this unholy crusade, and 10 coerce Con-
gress TO renew Its charter.
We who now address YOU, then slept forth and
exposed the hypocrisy of these proceedings, and
warned you that they were only the preparatory
steps to an attack upon your State administration.
We then told you, that in less than eighteen months,
money would be plenty at less than six per cent;
business would be active and hccountry prosperous.
The objects of the panic makers was three fold
Usurers cried panic and distress, that they might
reap the fruits OF usury and cXtortlon! Bank men,
that they might ENJOY exclusive privileges, and grow
rich upon the dstresscs of their fellow citizens; and
Manufacturers, with one two honorable eXccp-
tons) thai they might curtaii the wages OF their la
borers. How, fellow citizens, have our predictions
been fulfilled How have the prophecies Of our OPP
poncnts been ialsiEcdl Your own experience fur
nIshes the necessary proof.
Your State Administrations attacked by Gov
eraor Knghtand full biooded Panic Senate. year
has scarcely elapsed and the country is flooded with
money--5as;noss is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Machus'e aa1 IaborcrF are III fall employment
Cotton f}5"iog have advanced from three to four
cents per yH"l-'lIe raw material, from five to six
cents pcr rourd-Conon and woollcn factories in
stead of b"'n" stopf, rs was predicted, are driven
with rcdoubcd spccd--fhc Farmer iads ready
market and corresponding price for his produce
thus emphaticallv cgltying Orator Wcbstcr's de-
claration In Boston, Philadelphia, New-York
Baltimore and other places, business has opened
with more activity and to greater extent than ever
known before. Your constitution Is vet secure in
all its pristine purify our Judiciary has just closed
Its Winter session, and your Treasury is full and
and ndaaundant-Ihe Canals instead ofa "soLrrupE,"
have yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars over
my preceding yeal--Insead ofthc LAKES BEING
DHEARY WASTE or WATERS" the American can
vass shades every surf, and watts their azure
bosoms, the rich products of our prosperous and
happy country.
Never was there a set of politicians cilcctuay
silenced and put down by facts within every ones .
knowledge and experience, as the Bank orators
have heen Not solitary prediction of theirs has .
been fulfilled. On the contrary, the policy of the
Government, as well most ofthc State Administra-
tions, have been nobIy sustained by the people, in
spite OF the wicked machination of Il desperate bank
faction.
With these facts before you, fellow citizens can
you support candidate for your Chief Magistrate,
who has been concerned in the we have faint
ly DIES crIbed We know you cannot. We eutrcat
you, therefore, with lis TO go 10 the polls and again
sustain your public officers who have proved faith
full to your interests and to the honor and TRANQUIL
lity of your beloved country.
The late Outrage at OrpiHc-Wc published not
long ago (from correspondent an account of n
most horrible OUTRAGE committed upou n female IN
Oryille. Onondaga countv.-os also the arrest of
the perpetrators of it; who were bound to answer
in the sum of 1880 each We have since learned
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