The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-06-14

question had not been circulated. the Star
would not have brought forward the name
Of Mr.. Clay the Commercial and 1m,r;eon
would not have responded by their nonina.
tion Of Mr. WEBSTER, and the Al5any
Erenihg JOur7iel would not have intima,ed
its preference for General HARRISON. And
now when ny their own act, this mischief
has been done, these same men insist that
they are driren into q public nomination of
Dir. WEBSTER. be the consequences what
they may to the country
The gentlemen who are engaged in his
most il-concsived measure, are as well
aware of these facts "A. we are they are as
satisfied as we are. that it is forever destroy
ing the hopes Of Mr.. Webster'S true friends
aud of the friends Of the country, and yet
they are acting on the determination that
they will either rule or ruin, and courting
rum with full conviction tina, they are
rendering it certain and inevitable.
They must not, should not, be permitted
to cnrry into execution their suicidal pro-
jects but if they should continue obstinate
and are determined to have their victim, let
oNi At bthi ih hhi"o Nh"'
they will speak only their own sentiments
and not the sentiments of the Wing Party of
New York.
We are not surprised at the mallgnlties
of our partisan politics. Long since have
they broken through all restraints, and
,rampelled upon all the courtesies of civil
lized life. They have earned for US ma
tioaai character by no means enviable, and
have fully authorized the declaration, that
in political warfare the American is much
disposed to be lackguard and cut-throat.
This is probably owing to the influence of
money in our politics, for in no part Of the
world is public opinion SO thoroughly de-
bauched in all things where money is In
volyed, as in the United States. La our
commercial cities particularly, it is the only
standard of character. Men are there esti-
mated by their amount of bank stock and
John Quincy Adams, with all his gigantic
talents, ,nultifarious requirements and worth
of individual character, is respected less " on
change" than some mitlionary who began
with load of cabbages and ended with
shaving a note, and by religious devotion
of every faculty to converting two half cents
into a whole one, has become u richer man
than all science or literature can show in
any part of the world. Lord Brougham or
Webster are nobody in comparison with
Barring or Rolchshild /; and Franklin or
Fulton or Davy, or Addison o. Johnson or
Bulwer, have not done half so much to en-
tighten and refine mankind, as the Josephs
or the Hermans.
il is this omnipotence of the dollar, this
whirling of every thing round 1t as com-
mon centre, which imparts so much mean
ness AS well us ferocity, SO much huckster-
ing as well as bullying, to our politics
What puts a blackleg into a press, and
stains it with a proposition TO assassinate
the Pre- sident of the United Statesl "The
almighty dollar" to be gambled for will
dice manufactured by fraudulent land com
panies. What makes men forswear theii
country, and league with foreign stock job
bers to embarrass its Government, under.
mine its institutions, and fill it with few
silded lordlings and muitltudes of willing
slaves "The almighty dollsr;' the cor,
rupting, debauching, dcbasing spirit o
gain. Phn. Puohe Ledger.