The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-03-30

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and the same indiv.sable, so that no Pres
ident can promote the welfare Of the Inter
and not tie former-ihat we are weary of
seeing the people of Massachusetts al,y,vs
at war with the people of New York, and
that tie time has fully come for US TO ask
at the hands of those who have governed
our State councils, why they have severed
Massachusetts from the great democracy of
the nation why they have almost sundered
her from the Union; why they nov obsti-
nately persist, in expelling from New En-
gland itself, in the approaching Presiden-
tial election.
9Th. ResOIgeG, That we love our rhole
country, and wish our country to love US;
but if the Wing policy of Massachusetts be
the true policy, then we ought only to love
Massachusetts and hate the whole country
because inasmuch as this State has been
IN opposition TO the Government for twenty
eight out of the last thrty-six years of the
Presidency, it follows that if she has been
right IN her mode of sustaining the consti-
tuition, the majority of the nation have been
the enemies that constitution !; and hence
the supporters of the Massachusetts candi-
date, instead of claiming as their motto.
=" our country, our whole country, and moth
ing but oar country" should inscribe in the
centre of the field of their banner, " Massa-
chhsetts, our massachusetts,, and nothing
but Massachusetts,"
10th. ResOlrsd, That the dominant poll
lticians of Massachusetts cannot even claim
the merit of obstinate consistency in their
twenty-eight years war upon the national
government; inasmuch as they have first
opposed and then supported almost every
great national measure, but always at the
wrong time, and in the wrong pIace-and
the men who now openly hold up the Mas
sachusetts candidates, with no hope but to
break the election by the people, ought to
blush at the recollection, that in October,
1874, when four candidates were in this
Hall, and solemly voted, " that it was the
duty of every true friend to the peace and
tranquility of the country to express his
preference for one or the other of the prom
inent candidates, and thus by securing the
election ofPresident by the people, prevent
the greatest OF eriiS, the choice dey diving on
the House of Representatives, which good
men of all parties have ever deprecated as
pregnant with alarming and dangerous con-
sequences, and as tending to produce an
archy and confusion, and thereby to endan-
ger the existence Of the Government"
lith. RGsolUe9, That VIC have full con-
iidence in the intelligence, honesty, and
patriotism of the whoie people; that we be-
lieve them to be much more capable of self
government, than the aristocratc few. who
while they decry and seek to govern the
whole people, cannot govern their
own ayarlce and aMbition-that we have no
sympathywith disappointed politicians, who,
because they cannot rule, are forever crying
run, in the midst of unparalleled prosperity
and mourning over a bleeding, expiring,
dead, and buried Constitution, in a face Of
the country blessed beyond measure, with
out Il cent of national debt, happy at home,
and by the brilliant and glorious success Of
all our negotiations with foreign powers,
honored abroad.