The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-08-05
Whereas we

light necessary to show their fallacy. Whereas we
can assign no limits to human knowledge. So let
US hope that we shall, in spite of the power of COM
bned wealth, and hired talents. yet escape from the
lures, and bats, which held out to US with the
facinating charm of seeming interest. The true in.
terests of the many have, and will be ad
vocated by the few II is not our nature that il
should be The few, consisting of certain class
es, who think they have prescriptivc right con-
duct the affairs of State, may invoke the name of
the people, and prefix the title Of public good to all
their acts, but those acts will always be calculated
to promote their interest.
The political light which seems to be spread
ing among the industrious classes, has most happily
fallen on subjects which cannot fail to command
their attention. 1t has fallen on their means Of ad
yancing their own fortunes and has shown them in
the most ineligible way, by figures which do not lie
that thousand hidden obstacles have heretofore i'm
peded their progress in the of fortune This ia
the touchsone by which the people will now test the
purity of their Representatives, and the honesty of
their 1t requires only the diffusion of this
light among the voters generally, 10 secure for
country the most perfect form of government, and
the most exemplary rulers that the world has ever
seen. Political economy, that Bugbear of monopo-
lists, is making its way to the minds Of the people,
in spite of the virtual nterdicon of arstocratic rul-
ers, and those who control our Universities, in va
rious ways. Our newspaper essays, and occasional
speeches in our Legislatures, are so many popular
lectures on that forbidden science. Gouges book
on Banklng Everett's speech the same subject
in the Massachusetts Legislature the Evening Pos,
OF New Y ork; the Boston Post, and the Reformer
and various other writer's, and papers are all
at work clearing away the rubbish of ahtiquated and
selfish errors and blaze of useful light will be the
consequence.
/ The trade fpolitica deception bids fair to become
so Improbable, that politicians will grow honest
from policy. In the meantime it behoves all voters
who feel that they not yet clear Of the fogs which
artfu politicians have raised to bewilder them and
who do not clearly through the mysteries of par
tal legislation, to go with the Democracy the par
ty SO called may be wrong in many things; have
often differed with them points but it is the
safest slde Their errors are frequently from igno-
rance, and sometimes from miserable, and selfish
divisions among their leaders; still the main body
is sound and true. 1t consists of the industrious
many, who live by their labor. They have one
and the same interest: and that interest is not the
interest of Bankers, Monopolists and Capitalists );
therefore as these last form the Federal, or Wing
party, it is safe to oppose them it is for the inter-
est of the industrious classes to do notwithsand
ing own private quarreis and all our imperfect
ions; which we must correct possible Fed
cralism know, leads back TO the European sys-
TENS fast or slow while Democracy, in spite of
her ignorance, and her errors, points to the greatest
prosperity and happiness, of the greatest numbers
Il HONEST Policy.