The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-09-21

renoWn. we are rs mucn perpleNed 10 nn-
derstand, how the advocates of Federalist
of the Alien and Sedition law times, of n
supporter of the Tariff policy pushed to the
depopulaten of our commercial towns, of
n power in the Federal Government TO seize
upon our soil for the prosecution OF schemes
of pretended improvement, but in reality
schemes of boundless patronage; and of the
! power to set up within our limits and jur-
isdlction, IN defiance of our will, banking
corporations, exempted from Slate taxation
and destructive of our State institutions :
how such men can, consistently Dith iRfeg-
rity or honor, be the friends of another can
dldate whose boast il has been, and still is,
that he is the strict expositor of the Consti-
tuition the inhexiblo antagonist of every
doctrine and measure approved by Gen.
Harrison: holding them ruinous and abior-
rent We are unable to conceive how, i'm
an association of oposites like yours, should
il chance TO succeed, there would he formed
an administration of the government, con-
sistent with the smallest regard for truth or
honesty in its members. Each must be
sw orn To before the Constilution-and each
is opposed To others in his Interpretation of
this fundamental law. In an assemblaee
of materials so incongruous, nothing can
cnsuc but confusion, or what is more fatal
still a compromise # integrity in eousiderd-
ton of the possession Of powsr--a compro-
mise, in which nee the peopie must be the
price and the UictinS.-in the rise of the
Federal Wing party, the world has witness
an vent wholly unparalleled. Heretofore
| the authors of new theories or the reformers
of old ones, have proposed and insisted up
on some principle, characterized as perma-
nent, as founded IN good failh, and capable
Of useful, practical application. They
would have blushed to admit, that they had
no principles of their own; or to have ap-
pealed to the favor of the world, through
the medium of doctrines condensed in
others as heretodox and pernicious. The
converse of all this has been reserved for
our days, aud to be cxempliied in the con-
duct of the Federal Wings. This Junto
has been the first To shock the moral sense
of mankind, by proclaming that their union
Is based on no maxim or principle IN gov
ernment or morals---that il is irreconcilcable
with the predominance Of any such priuci-
pie the views nnd opinions ofits members
being disslmildr, and even opposite, that
they are ready to fraiernizc with the Mon
arcbist, the Fedcralst, the NuIifer, the
Disunionist with the middle men between
these varieties; with every shade and hue
of discomfort and desperalion-,heir aims
being to bring down those whom the pco-
pie have placed above them, and to seize
upon their places The foundations of the
Repubic-tne repose and prosperity of the
people being wholly excluded from their
calculations of their regard. Designs and
motives so selfish so odous in their nature,
so scandalously rofcsscd--indenlical in
our view, with those which hold together n
band of mercenaries or plundercrs--we feel
bound by our obligation to truth, to oui
: country, ourselves aud our families, to re-
pei with alarm and abhorrenec.
Piracy on the Lakes.--Tho suspicion,
looking craft recently captured near DE.
troit, with her more suspicious looking crew
which was magnifed by the Detroit Adyer
tlser into q, case piracy, turns out to hav,
been nothing more than company of vol
untccrs on their way to Texas, by way o
, the upper lakes, who were compelled, 70
want Of provisions, 20 levy contributions OF
the Inhabitants of the coast, and by TN,
wlinr of their leader to assume mustachos
!, The Buffalo Daily Star says:
"A General DirSon, as we nre informed
he called himself, whilomc editor of the In
dian Phoenix, AT Washington, recently pro-
= cured "A schooner Of about 30 tons buriben
from Lake Ontario, and after erising hel
name, the 'Waye,' from her stern, com.
al .Itx atan
sibly for Texas via the upper lakes. lis
succeeded amongst the cankers of calm
world in raising twenty-eight volunteers
sixteen of whom he dignified as officers,
such as making the captain of the schooner,
sailing master pro tem., with first lieuten-
ancy in the Texan navy in reversion. Be-
Ing short of supplies, the crew, under their
patriotic officers, proceeded from Point A.
bino about the 9th ult., landing on the
shores of the Lake, and Ievying contrbu-
tions in the shape Of sundry pigs, calves,
beevcs, &c. Such n course necessarily
brought the parties under the ban ofthc law
and they were accordingly seized neal
Black River as before stated. One anu
sing feature in this cnse is, that ms some o
. The recruits joined this expedition from pure
and prtriotic motives the predatory dispo-
sirion Of the commander thus early devel-
oped, induced much dissatisfaction; the
General then removed their arms and in
some instances where there were open de.
nonsirations, confined the offenders using
severity only compatible with the despotism
of a pirate captain. Another regulation
was, that the whole party should wear large
mustacbios. Since the arrest of the valiant
general, W, are without additional particu-
lars, save that some Of the hands deludcd