The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-12-16


readers will decide For my myself think ne
aud II is matter Of surprise to me that either
personal friends or Political pariizans should tb
to serve their cause or his, by paradng before
public this specimen of his coarse, abusive, biz
vulgar and raneorOus oraiory. ItTnust certainly
detrimental to the character Of its author,
the cause of dseeney and goOd manners, of which |
Political Partizans claim TO be the sole guardid
than it possibly be TO the interests ofthe party
which he is opposed. But as was said of Cess
WILL give us the language, read us the languas
this shall be done, but first let me do justice to
author by stating that he (as if to make what \
weak and improper appear the more so by contr|
with what is powerful and correct) precedes it VI
an able eXhortation to patriotism one that is
worthy of a high character and powerful mind, /
calculated to awaken the highest and most homo
bic feelings Of our nature ; but instead of mainta
ing this dignified elevation, he suffers his passion
weakness aud political modification TO interfere;
in aluding to the great democratic party of
country, he gives utterance to the following: " fr
your own quiet elevation watch calmly" said
a" this serYiie rout as its triumph sweeps before
The ayerging hour will at last come. II cannod
that our free nation will long endure the vulgar
minon Of ignorance and profigacy. You will
TO see the laws re-established-These banditti |
be scourgcd back to their cayerus-the penitent
will reclaim its fugitiyes in office, and the only
membrance which history will preserve of them
The energy with which you resisted and defed
them. Bravo well done Mr. Bdde: thou al
precious and gallant Republican your allu |
here cannot possibly be misunderstood all y
readers will at once discover that your design ]
castigate the opposers of your Bank monopoly
tenn, and they will also recollect at the same d
that they constitute the great Democratic Part
the country, now consisting of a vast majority
its freemen +; and rapidly increasing in numI|
Yes it is to this body of his fellow citizens in ge
al, and to the officers that they have chosen to
minister their government, in particular, that
worthy Bank President thus eOurteOusly refe
They it is that in his opinion constitute the "ss
,rsut' or in palmer words the awiess rGbble C
orous multitude, whose " vulgar dominion of
rance and proAigacy oar free nation" q. e. we
of cash that have been made free and irdspen
best manners AID al the re fHsncnt of the co,
still claim all its Offices and powers) " cannot
endure" who have abolished the laws and shu
= scoursed back to their caves" as gang of
bers, or wild beasts and whose officers of gov
ment shall be seized on as fugitiYes from the I|
tentiary, and all of whom shall speedily drop
silent oblivion, or be remembered only as th1
victims on whose immolatinn the future |
of the Bank and Wing party is to be
Yea the future historian will not in the opinI
Mr. BiddIe, preserve any remembrance 'of
man, woman, or child, now living and not o
party, unless it be 10 mention few Of them
denially, evidences Of the irnnoss, energy
subimaed patriotism, exercised Ey himself ain
high and cbyalrous conductors in.their annihlaI
o precious republican o thou worthy guar
and representative of all the decency and good !
ners of thy country-May thy courtesy and c
never be detcrioated by cuigar dominion-may|
ptacid spirit never again be infamed by the !
throw of u. 5. Bank, and may no one of tn !
low citizens ever bear disappointment with less
nifty, or have his own private ends and anil
thwartcd or inhibited with less benefit to his q
try ; and if Thy name and deeds shall deserve
so long remembered, may they never be omitte
the page of the future historian so long as tho
thy greatest political opponent, and thy cour
most favored Chief Magistrate shall be preserve
PHILo DEcENTIlI
Ifties.-Thcre lately has been quite warn
, bate in the Legislature of Alabama, on the su