The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-02-11

"A we copy from tne ~. 4. Eve. TOst
n article in relation the late horrid attempt to a.
: sassnate the President and to the probable caus
, which Influenced the assassin in his afro
> cious undertaking. In the habit was Lawrenc
of daily visiting the Senate chamber, listening to tn
r impassoned eloquence and wild oratory of men de
termined to rule ruin the country, believing a
; he probably did, what he had often heard avowe
by men in their official station that Gen. Jackson
was tyrant despot, and traitor to the country
constitution and laws-is it to be wondered at tina
he should imagine that he was doing the country
essential service in riddng of whom he had agair
and again heard denounced curse to the lane
over whose desnes he presides Lawrence is incar.
{ cerated in dungeon while those whose infamma.
tory speeches probably induced him to this horrid
act, stalking about where great men most do
congregate," pursuing their unhaowed career
of factious turbulence and reckless profigacy.
Our readers will peruse with the deepest interest,
and with emotions of intense surprise and indigna
ton, the account which we subjon from the Wash
ington Globe, of the most audacious outrage ever
attempted in this country. Who is there whose
heart is so hardenened by political hatred that it
does not burn with honest anger at this most narr;.
cdal effort! Who is there, blind to the services
of Andrew Jackson, that he does not feel sensa,on
OF the velest gratitude for the almost miraculous
preservation of the valuable life of the greatest man
of modern times, the truest benefactor of the human
race, the most efficient guardian of the great princ
pies of human liberty?
Alas we fear there are many such There are
men who will greve that the ball of the assassin did
not perform its office; there are men who would
have rejoiced if the life of the President had been
sacrificed; who would have looked the assassin,
not as a wretch deserving to be slain by lingering
tortures but BRUTUs who had struck brave
I" blow for liberty" and entitled himself to an ova-
ton and monument We would not utter this sem
timent if we did not believe we would not enter
tain such belief, if it were not forced upon us by
facts of the most unanswerable kind. But we can
not forget the cxecratons which have heard yell-
ed out in our streets against Andrew Jackson; we
cannot forget the language which has been used by
the Bank-tory press concerning him we cannot
forget the speeches of Senators describing him as
cut-hroa and villain, the scourger of the people
a despot, an usurper. We cannot forget that men
who stand well in this community have expressed
in public places, their desire that some arm might
be found bold and patriotic enough to rid our coun-
try of the yrant and avowed the alacrity with which
hey would largely contribute to raise a monument
10 the memory of such paracide
The plea of insanity is set up in favor of the fran
&c wretch who with deliberate purpose sought the
life of Jackson. No doubt he was nsane-Nor do |
doubt that he inhaled the latent seed of his NAL
ady in the heated and poisonous atmosphere of the
United States Senate Chamber. Ay, we say it fear
essly and with full confidence in its truth, that if
he man is mad, he is political maniac, and has
been wrought up to frenzy by the incendiary ha- |
-angues of Clay, Webster, Calhoun, and their be-
,otted followers. Did not the same men excite to
renzy very large portion of the people of these
United States Did they not nfame mems pas
ons to that wild pitch of excitement that they were
prepared for any scenes of anarchy and crime! Did
hey not teach them to believe all sorts of mon
imputations against the character and motives
If Andrew Jackson Did they not exclaim that
he country was i'll the midst of revolution, and
intimate that it must soon be deluged with blood 7
Did they not give their hearers to understand that
he pistol of modern assassin if rightly aimed
night do mankind signal service as did the
lager of Brutus 7 Did they not strive, by all the
rts of sophstry, and with all the fervour of misgui-
led eloquence, to the worst passions of the
worst men! Did they not go about, in Sunday
rusades, preaching the most seditious and nfama-
ory doctrines Alas, to all these questions truth
nost respond in the affirmative.
Was the man mad who attempted to assasinate
General Jackson : So were thousands of his fellow
itizens but few months ago, and they have hard
y yet recovered from their dilemma occasioned by
he same cause which, we have no doubt prompted
nc oaihnaole attemPt OF the washington parrlcide
-parricide in the most enlarged meaning of the t
erm The whole tenor of the proceedings of the op-
'osition in the Senate, of the language of the op-
ostion presses with very few EXCEPTIONS of the tone
II the speeches at opposition meetings, has been t
alcuated, if not intended, to deprive men of their
Ober senses, and turn them into political Helots
We look beyond the poor wretch who attempted this
unprecedented crime, to the unprincipled dema- 4
ogues whose wild oratory has infiamed his mind a
o madness If half of what they have said of Cen i
raj Jackson strue the deserves the admiration
lot the execrations of his fellow-men The same t
Qualities of our nature which cause us to revere the
pectacle ofa Brutus rising. b
"Refulgent from the stroke of Cesars fate"
you'd lead us also to regard with secret approba-
ION tins Washington homicide. Against those then :