The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-07-13

"S ""' ""' sc' e'en the boys 10 iOll0"
him unless to pelt him with rotten eggs
which perhaps he might induce them to do
if not warned that he would set it down for
a riot IN his account with his employers and
claim his reward for it as nightly advanc.
ing the "great cause.'' No doubt these
worthless from Boston and New York will
the many friends and abolitionists" they
brought with them and their" " able reporter
would have Iabored hard to make up for
the regretted absence of brother Weld and
the eloquent brother Stanton armed at all
POINTS" They would as usual have amath-
ematised and excommunicated all Church
members and ministers of all denomina-
uohs who DO not think as they pretend to
think and would have reyied and denoun-
ced the government and people Of the slave
holding States as they did before the COM
mlttee of the Massachusetts Legislature,
and have necessarily don, in all their
speeches and lectures almost without sim
gle exception. The eight persons set down
IN Garrison's " list of Speakers" all ex-
cept one, were or had been hired declaimers
in the pay of the Amer Anti Skarery So
c'efy, as appears by the reports of their
" ezecutire C0mmittee.' None of the
Rhode-lsland memoralists were thought
worthy of place in this " list of speakers" {"
But some of them, probably would have
been warmed up and inspired by the dis
charge of the forty-two FOUNDER, and have
made bold to ask leave to speak after their
superiors. There would have been no want
of speakers to have held out braveIy, if nec-
essary, for period longer than an entire
Congressional session. Measuring their
strength of lungs and capacity for long
speaking by the samples we have in the
published speeches and lectures of those
alone set down in Garrison's list of speak
ers, any one of them would have been more
than competent to have taken up the re-
naming part of the week in which the com
mittee were to set. And the same scene
would have been acted over at the next
weekly session and the next without end.
BY the next session brother Weld would
probably have made all he could of his
Troy riot; and the elo quem brother Stan
ton, armed at all points," would have been
ready to assist i'll opening the bate ries.
Once permitted to enter upon this career,
they would have had the committee wholly
in their possession and have gone on as they
pleased: for the moment the committee had
endeavored TO bring them to any regular
course of proceeding or interiered with them
n the slightest manner, they would haye
'aised the usual outcry that they were
gagged and denied hearing and deprived
If the privilege of" free discussion" And
his they meant should be the termination
IT the business before the committee and
n the General Assembly also. This is ex-
"tiy the same course which the same men
md their co-adjutors pursued before the
'mmittee ofthe Massachusetts Legislature:
md which is unequivocally indicated in
arrison's Letter now before us.
Such were to have been the fruits of the
nwarranted invitation inserted in the news
apers. The majority of the committee
Eere determined not to be so imposed upon
nd insuted; nor to permit the House
'hch had appointed them TO be, through |
hem, so abused. 1t was evident that they |
ould not, with any proprietv, meet under
uch notice as had been given. They +
lerefore recommended to the House, rs
he most correct course to continue the !
ommittee with directions to report at the
ext session, granting leave, in the mean
me, to the memOriahsts (not to intruding
to present to the committee in
riting whatever documents, evidence, ar
uments or remarks they or any of them
light have to offer. And who with any
iadow of right, or reason, or sincerity,
,uld complain ofthe liberty thus profieredl
was evident from the preparations made
nd the number of speakers collected, that
was not intended the committee should
ave any chance of reporting at the then
,ssion at least, and this was intimated with
1T disguise, if then the memoralists or
,ore properly speaking, the hired foreign
gents into whose hands they had surren-
ercI themselves if these master agents,
the name oftheir wards and pupils, really
fought themselves gifted with any new and
right ideas; more than had been repeated
thousand times in their quarterly, monthly,