Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-08-13


we mrs, endure, then pity, then embraco."
The monster tyranny, which has usurpcd
the Executive chair of our Government, has
been so long before the eyes of the People,
that there IS reason to fear it has become less
odious to them than at frst-and far less than
1t ought to be now and exciting far less in
dignation than it ought to now. There seems
to be growing apathy upon this most vital
of all our concerns, involving as it does all
that is dear to us as freemen, and as patriots
Nothing less Is at stake than our Consttu-
tion, and constitutional liberties the fairest
fabric Of freedom, that ever has been erected
on earth by man, is about to be demolished,
and frightful despotism to stalk over lts ru-
ins. Who that has heart-who that has
sentiment of liberty remaining that has
any pride of country, can contemplate, with
out the most painful feeling, our present po-
litical condition, and our future political pros
poets? We see an Executive Chief who has
made himself despot, and who now wields
the sceptre of despotism over this country
we see an innumerable host of breling and
parncidal hands raised for his support; we
see the offscouring of all the earth pour
ed out upon our shores, to augment the for
ces Of this parrcidal band; we see these
swarms of fugitive vagabonds, TO q man, join
ing this tiberti-cide party we see this Exec
utive Chief--this self-made dcspot, uomina-
ting his successor; we have seen packed
Convention, at his dctation, confirming this
nomination we have seen that successor to
be publicly pledging himself to his party, (the
liberty assassins) "to follow OH in the foot
steps of this self-made despot, and to finish
his glorious work." we have seen here, in our
own State, Van Buren, the nominated stic-
cessor, in capitals, at the head of our Jack
son ticket for Congress we know that if
elected, they will do the bidding of Van Bu-
rem, and of his army Of consprators against
the liberties Of their country. Yet the Wings
Of this State-indeed of the whole country
seem to browse and to slumber, amid their in
cumbent evils and impending dangers and
both, of the most appalling character. They
might as reasonably browse and slumber up
on a volcano, already smoking, aud knowing
it ready to burst and to bury them beneath
its floods of burning lava.
Why and wherefore is il so? II cannot be
that you are Indifferent to the possession Of a
free Government, and to the nnumerable
blessings it showers upon the country, and
are resigned to its downfall and destruction
and with folded arms can see in its stead, and
standing in its ruins, despotic Government,
pregnant with a thousand evils, and which
sooner or later will be sure to engender con-
vulsions that must rend nsunder the union of
these States.--For it is idle TO imagine that
the sound part of the people of this country,
(who, doubtless, make numerical majority
Of all who have any stake in the country, will
acquesce in a despoism, as the permanent
of this country. If the party,
now in possession Of the Government, have
30 intrenched themselves in the possession,
by making the Government party property,
and by tho most extensive system Of corup-