The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-07-27
From the Gloucester Democrat.
THE PROSPECT BEFORE US.


The signs of the times are growing more
and more suspicious. Mr.. Van Buren en-.
ters upon the political arena almost with
out a respectable show ofoppositIon. Judge
White has been let doson by the Virginia
wings with very little ceremony: The
Richmond whig, the leading opposition pa
per in Virginia, of the 2lst inst. drops the
apostate White, and urges upon lis friends
the necessity of Withdrawing their support
from him as unavailable, throwing it upon
William ii. Harrison, upon the ground as
the Wing preteDds, of averting that greatest
Of evils, the election going to the House,
thus "opening the door to corrupting in
trignes, and dangerous exc'tements.', The
Whig accompanies the announcement with
string of reasons by which it processes to
have been Influenced, and which it consid-
ers of sufficient importance to induce the
whole opposition of Virginia to abandon
White and throw their support in favor Of
the Hero of Tippecanoe, as the only way
by which an effectual resistance San be
made to the nominee Of the people.
This movement taken in connexion with
the fact, that the publication of Judge
Whites political iuminary the Washington
Sun-has been discontinued, warrants the
belief, that the managers of the meeting
which nominated White, characterised at
the Bell and Crockett caucus, have, to their
utter dismay and discontinue, found it i'm
possible 10 rally any considerable portion of
the South to his interest.
IL this be the fact, and we are certainly
borne out in the conclusion by the failure of
his paper, and the course things are taking
in the Old Dominion, it must be apparent
to the most superficial observer, that this
recently manufactured great man, will sink
into that deep degradation and disgrace,
which he deserves for his glaring political
tergIversations, base subserviency, and suf-
fering himself to become an instrument
in the hands of a set of hungry office seek
ers thirsting for the spols.
From whom, we ask, is White to receive
support as a Southern candidate, for such
he is 7 Not from the Nullifers, For if
Calhoun was not in the way, his vote for
Bloody Bill" would blast his hopes.-Not
from the Southern wings, for they will be
more likely to respond to the movements of
their political brethren in Virginia, and adopt
Harrison. White, then, it would seem is
out of the question. This being the case,
Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Car
olina, Tennessee and Missippi, in all of
which there would be strong sectional
feeling to operate against Van Buren, in
favor of White we're he run, and which
might have lost for him one or two of them
eau, in the event of White bclng Withdrawn
be calculated on with considerable degree
of certainty but if he be not Withdrawn,
two of these are certainly, and four of them
probably, with us.
If then the contest should finally be be-
tween an honest, consistent and able states
man Of the Jeffersonian school, and an
imbeciIe old man, without the meanest re-
quisites of a statesman, whose capacity ev-
EN- by his friends was considered-as only
qualifying him to fill with tolerable correct
ness the office of County Clerk, in Ohio, to
which he found himself incompetent, and
was obliged to perform the duties by Depu-
y-between a man who has been elected
% the chief magistracy of his native st ,te,
hen to represent in Congress, afterwards
, member of the Cabinet, and sent Min
ster to Great Britain, filling all these Off
,es with honor to himself, voluntarily called
~ his fellow countrymen to preside over
he American Senate, from which he had
eceived but short time previous, dis
graceful acknowledgement and fatal te
hose who recalled him-betwcen the man
Who has occupied all these posts of honor
md trust, and the nominal Clerk of n Coun- |
Y Court in Ohio can any one be ignorant
If the inevitable result of such contest !
At the north the whg party is dead, be-
,ond the power of gavanism. Their poIit-
cal stock is worked up. They have moth
NC to msrepresent, nothing to howl over.
The passage of the Deposite Bill, the theme
If so many dolcful lamentations, although it |
nay cause a momentary flutter, will prove to
De their winding sheet. This last triumph
If their departed soul, is indeed triumph
If mortality, like their glorious Wing vic-
ories"for the last seven years, each sue
,essive one making greater and deeper in
'oads upon the mortifying frame, which is
low reduced to naked skeleton. (
A French Tragedy. A tailor, named