The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-10-21


to the world that lrhmen deserved to be assisted
that they were indignant Of slavery and were ready
to assert the independence and liberty of their coun-
try the guarantee which Washington trocured for
America--to procure an MD which would BY its
example, be as important as its valor-disciplned
gallant, pregnant with science and with experience
allies who would perceive the good, and, in our COL
lislon, polish the rough points of our character.
They would come to us as strangers, and leave US
friends, after sharing in perils and elevating
our destiny. My objects were, not to receive new
task-masters, but to expel old tyrants.-These
my views and these only became lrshmen. Itwns
for these ends | sought Aid from France because
France, enemy, could not be more i'm
placable than the enemy already in the bosom Of
my country
Here he interrupted by the Courtn
! have been charged with that importance in the
efforts to emancpate my country, as to be consid-
cred the keystone of the combination of Irshmen,
Or as your Lordship expressed it, " the life and
blood of the conspiracy" You do me honor over
much-yOu have given to the subatern all the cred
it of a superior. There are men engaged in this
conspiracy, who not only superior me, but
even to your own conceptions of YOURSELF my lord
men, before the splendor Of whose genius and vir-
lures should bow with respectful deference-who
would think themselves dishonored to be called your
friends, and who would not disgrace themselves by
shaking your blood stained hand.
I Here he nterrupted.1
l What my lord shall you tell me, on the passage
to that scaffod which that tyrany of which you
only the intermediary execuoner has erected for
my murder that / am accountable for all the blood
that has and will be shed in this struggle of the op-
pressed against the oppressor-shall you tell this
and must L be so very slave not to repel nI j,
who fear not to approach the Omnipoent Judge, to
answer for the conduct of my whole life-am ] to
be appalled, and falsifed by remnant of NOR
tality here by you, too, who, if it possible to
Al
your unhalIowed ministry, in one great reservoir
your lordship might swim in it
[Here the Judge interfered.l
Let man dare, when l am dead to charge me
with dishonor Let no man ataint my memory by
believing that could engage in any cause but that
of my country's liberty and independence; or that
, | could become the plant mlnion of power in the
: oppression or the miseries of my countrymen. The
proclamation of the Provisional Government speaks
for my views. No inference can be tortured from it
to countenance barbarty debasement at home,-
or subjccton, humiliation or treachery from a
I broad. l would not have submitted to foreign in
vader, for the same reason that would resist the
domestic oppressor. In the dignity of freedom l
, would have fought upon the threshold of my
try, and its enemy should enter only by passing
f my feless corpse And am !, who lived but for my
country-who have subjected myself to the dangers
of the Jealous and watchful oppressor, and now to
the bondage of the grave, only to give my country
men their rights and my country her independence
to be loaded with caumny, and not suffered to
! resent and repel it No; God forbid
If the spirits of the illustrous dead participate in
the concerns and cares Of those who dear to
them in this transitory life-O, ever dear and ven
Grated shade of my departed father look down with
scrutiny upon the conduct of your suffering son ana
see if have, for a moment deviated from those
/ principles of morality and patriotism which 1t was
, your care to lnstil into my youthful mind, and for
, which | am now to offer up my life.
, NV lords you impatient for the sacrifice
The blood for which you thirst is not CONCEALED by
the artificial terror which surround your victim it
it circulaes warmly and unruffled through
the channels Of which God created for noble pur-
poses, but which you bent to destroy for pur-
poses grevious that they cry to heaven. BE yet
patient | have but few words more to say am
going to my cold and silent grave my lamp OF life
, is nearly extnguishcd my race is run the grave
: opens to receive me, and sink into its BOSOM
have but one request to ask at my departure from
this world-it is the charity of its silence Let no
, man write my eptaph for as no man who knows
my motives dare vlndcate them, let not preju-
dice ignora nee asperse them. Let them and me
repose in obscurity, and my tomb remain unlnscrlb.
ed until other names and other men can do justice
. to my character. When my country takes her place
among the nations of the earth, then and not till
then, let my epitaph be written.-I hare done.
. A LACONIC SERMON.-Job, chap. |. verse 81
d Naked come 1 out of my mother't ,comb, and na-
Z ked sh III return hithcr"-In discoursing from
' these words l shall observe the three following
things first, mans ingress into the world; secondly,
$ his progress through the world and thirdly
his egress out of tie world. To return irst,-man 5
ngress into the world is naked and bare secondly,
his progress through the world is trouble and care
;, and, thirdly,-hs egress out of the world ls-no-
n body knows where. To conclude if we do well
:. here, shall be well there and could tell you
= no more were l to preach a whole year.
= = n0CT0R I0NE,S