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

meeting, the freedom of the press will b
best secured by guarding it against such a
buses as these aboiitionists have prostitutec
It to. With much better grace might IN,
fbeller Of private character attempt to shell
ter himself under the freedom of the press
'han those, whose i"cendiary publication.
endanger the property and lives of the peo-
pie OF entire states" The paragraph here
quoted is copied from the famous Report,
made by Rober; B. Cranston and others to
the citizens oflhis town, on the subject Of
slavery, and is here introduced for two
fold purpose-tirst to show that no consci-
entous abolitionist can support a man, who
openly-~hen ms interests did not seen, to
conflict vitA them, m,-could avow such sonti.
ments; and, secondly, to impress it upon our
democratic fellow citizens, that changing
only the name, and substituting " modern
wings" for" "abolilionists, il becomes truth,
palmer and more palpable than was ever
preached from the pulpit of whgsery-
"nomne mutata de te fabula nnrratur."
What has been, and what still continues
TO be the leading object of the jugglers who
control the whig press7 Has il not been
by ingenious sophstry, and plausible pre-
fences, to impose upon the people tho mis-
cradle fabrication, that the late disasters in
the commercial world were caused by the
notion of the general Government? Ia vain
have the fathers of the Church, the Way
lands and the Channings, raised their warn
ing voices, and, in manner no, to be mis-
understood, rebuked the wings for their
hypocricy. They point to the over desire
OF weallh--thc fastening to become rich,
and the unscrupulous means which have
been resorted to, principally in our large
cities, and by the wings themselves, to attain
these ends, as the real causes of tho dsas-
tiers by which our country has been afflicted.
But your genuine modern whig, like Gal
Ito of old, "cares for none of these things"-
he undertakes the intelligence of the peo-
pie; he does not believe them capable of
sell government, and thus holding them in
contempt, thinks to dclude them by nm old
wifc's fable.
Fortunate is 1t for our country, thrice
for the cause Of universal freedom,
that the veil with which disappointed and
faction seek to conceal its defor-
mites, is too ilimsy for its purpose. They
may desecrate the name of whig, they may
make 1t bye-word of reproach, but never
IN the eyes Oft the free people of this repub-
'c' can the nuliIiers of the South, and the
'nnlc- makers ofihe north, make themselves !
appear in any other light than that of :
disappointed demagoguos, dissatisfied with
aemsetces, their country, aud its institutions;
md with minds made up and intent upon
'nly one aternaiivo-",uie or ruin" u
We look upon the contest for political
power now at hand, as one of mighty mo- "
nent to the interests of this state, and the -.
ues''on' ms one that may be comprised in !,
"fShell. Shall that power be committed
hands long tried and skilful; to the man j
'ho his enemies admit is indefaigabIe in c
ne promotion of the interests of his con.
lltue"ts; to men enjoying the confidence u
'he administration, and who will do thsir :.
'i'"st TO carry the good vessel of state. a."
''e ana sound over the whirlpools aud ed. :"
les That the breath Of faction hive s,;rroJ al
p or si all we meanIy and iguominiou.lv IN
'frender to the base compound :" throw u'
hrselves into an attitude of bos,;l;,v u
the general government aud, as far d
IN US lies, degrade our country in the IN
yes OF the world, by presenting it with the OF
'ectacle of house divided agains, itself Ut
'aiiy then, fellow citizens to tho standard On
democracy, which you have placed in NC
70 hands of Pearce aud Howard, men milo Gu
nd willing to guard |, in every emergency. n n
0" have pledged yourselves to their SUM- "
'ri' and will not be found wanting. Give
heed to the wings, and no credi, ,o ,bo;, pc
e'ions' They have deceived You before "a
nu WIZ spare no urtifice to do so again. eN
"e'r very name is lie, and for its assump. P'
on oy piebah faction, we brand them :"
"n0fe hog" inccators Of gross Islander. sr
-. lie
""en an active party man leaves the W
"s.' ''ss"s'ed~ with the dupl'city and wan. al
p''"e'p'o OF many Of their lea,iing men, ca
,;,r All s'I'' Tue democracy, the vocabulary Of af
is found wanting in term. od IL