The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-08-16
ICoMMUNICATIoN.l

,c :" the Public life of DUrEE. j. P.ARcE," Il,
= published in the Providence Journal. and re
d published in the Herald Of the Times, O
o the 3D. inst.
: Fellow citizens! There is not one +.
inong the two hundred and upwards, VIII,
belong to the House Of Representatives o
the United States-there is not one amont
'hat large number-congregate from al
sections and all partics-who contribute.
, more towards furthering the designs of the
, dominant party than Dutee J. Pearce."
f Although we are aware that some notice
has been already taken of this precious con-
iesslon in the public papers; and altboug al,
we daily perceive evidence of its truth. in
almost every act Of the Executive, so far as
our own state is concerned ; yet the wings
OF ihis state, and the whig papers especially,
denounce Mr. Pearce 10 the frecmen, at one
time, as a 3" hahy cessei,"--at another time,
as so low in public estimation that he could
not carry with him even respectable " bodv
guard: LAT another as " a traitor and a-
PoStdte :'--at another, ns the scavenger
OF the kitchen cabinet" and at another. Gas
possessing the confidence of no party--and
entitled to none"
Now gentlemen, let us for n moment
compare these several sIatements-Iet us
see how they agree with our past experience
OF facts "nd how they will probably be
exemplifed by coming events.
In the first place then, when it was pub
licIy announced that Mr. Pearce was n
"leaky pcsssl," the event proved that, haky
ornot iedky, Mr.. Pearce foretold the event
with entire accuracy and precision and
although it disappointed the wings, it show
ed cooclusively, that Mr.. Pearce could not
easily he himself deceived.
When it was said that he could not carry
with him "epen body guard' in favor of
the administration, it turned out in fact,
that his body guard" consisted of a fair
majority of all the freemen of "the State
of Rhode Island and Providence Planta-
tons" We do not know what kind of
body guard" the Gar of all the Russias.
the Emperor of China, or the Great Mo-
gul might expect or require but we do be-
I'eve that in X. |. majority of the freemen
OF our own state, constitute at least pretty
considerable adcaaeed guard, and such a
one as no whig is likely soon to lead. If |
any individual can produce more efficient
one, SO far as it goes, we should really like
to know under whose banner he has enlist |
ed 10 serve.
When 1t WAS said that Mr. Pearce was a
traitor to the National Republican party,
since called Wings, and ;had nposta,izcd
rom their cause, we at first really Thought 4
hat he, inadvertently, might have fallen in
o some error; but when we asccrtnined
hat the wings openly denounced him, be-
'ause when invited to attend and address a
Wing caucus in Newport in the summer of
Sa2, he frankly stated to that meeting, that
hr. Clay could no, in any event be elected
resident; and that the frecmen of Rhode {
sland, must decide to vote either for Cen I
raj Jackson, with one party, or for MIR. {
Writ, with another party, MS the only can a
idates that had any chance of being cleo |
ed (; or else throw their votes awav:-wo q
nen felt convinced that he was man true |
, his party, his cause, and his country |
nd II he, by reason, could not convince Il
ZEN, that they should not, by delusion or u
eception, mslead him. Although Lemue "
|. Arnold, at that time Governor of the a
tate, in large CO npany at his own house il
Providence, in October Of the same year, "
penly denounced him so that instead of I,
eng trailer to the party, he was in fact I,
'er victim; rs was Roger Williams, when n
was driven from his home by the perse- 81
'tlons Of the Bay state and yet, what
.hode-Islander has ever yet called Roger II
' 'Illlams traitor or an aposfdie $,
When 1t was publicly stated in the whig pa W
srs that Mr.. Pehrce was a scarenger 10 t6e c,
aehea Cabinet, we did not, at FIRST, know os
iactly what that could mean, when an oi
'ed I" a Represcn,ive from free, sor- m
eten and independent State, in the Con. Il,
fess ot the United Statcs,-the only repu. Ic,
o'ree government in the world. But os,be te
o'gs claim ior their own party, not only Ikr
] the talents, bu, all the dcceney of the III
,untry. we could not understand, rs i, was u,
terwards explained by the uhig paper of, m
ne town, that it mean, a man employed hy n,