Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-04-18

What may be termed her moral ma
turc, however, her sentiments and ai-
lcctions, her sense ofpropriety, ofright,
of property, &C., is equally well de-
velopcd rs those of other children.
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sentences, expressive of action, as
shut the door" give me book, "
&c; or rather, as she expresses it,,
shut door," "givc book" f." for she
does not know the force of the particles,
me and q, any more than a prattllng
infant, who understands--give cakcA-
but puts in are and from imitation,
without knowing their meaning OF
than many child in school under
stands the difference between noun
and verb, though he has gone through
all the parsing exercises, and can give
a rule for every thing about it,"
II From the New York Courier Enquirer.
TIE RECENT DEFEAr-ITs CAUSES AND
CONsEQuENcEs.-We announced yesterday
the defeat of the Wings and the triumph of
he Loco Focos in this city; and it now be-
comes our duty, however unpleasant 1t may
be, briefly to point ont the causes OF our de-
feat, and the effect it is to have upon the
future efforts of our party in this State.
Those who are familiar with the course Of
this paper need not be told that we are in
he habit of speaking our sentiments frankly
and honestly, offend whom we may, and that
we nrc as ready to denounce Wing who
will not act up to the principles OF our party,
as Loco FIco who has no principles, but
4 whose only object is power and the "spols
Of Office" We accordingly proclaimed to
the Wings of New York, as it was our duty
to do, that fthey renominnicd AARON CLARK,
we should inevitably, not only be defeated
! in the hnyoralty, but as certainly. lose the
Common Coancil. Day after day, and week
after week, we reiterated these declarations,
and endcavorcd to convince our Wing friends
that the object they had in vicw-the re-
nomination Of Mr.. CLARK-would prove de-
struciive to the best hopes of the Wing party.
But VIC wrote and argued in vain. Mr..
CLARK openly nvowei his determination not
"io be laid on the shelf two use his own
words but If not nominated, to take the
stump against tie party. Affidavits of these
facts were at hand and ready 20 be submitted
to the Wing Nominating Committee; but
majority of that body, instead of deemlng
such declaration in itself sufficient cause of
rejection, resolved to place him in nonlna-
ton at any and every hazard. In short, the
Wing party were intoxicated with power
believed they had but to will, and that will
was law--and in the madness Of the moment,
l forgot the means by which they obtained,
n and the Strict adherence To principles through
which alone they could retain their nscen-
Il dancy. They were told, and they knew, that
II if Mr.. Clark was placed in nomination, he
would array against the party not less than
Jow thousand Foreign ro'es, which would
otherwise be cast in its favor; they were well
aware that the feelings of the community
were opposed to running any man third
time for The office Of Mayor; and they knew
too, that there was universal feeling per-
vading al clnsscs, that however good police
magistrate Mr.. Clark might have been, he
had done much which was calculated to bring
into dsre pute the office of Chief Magistrate
of the commercial emporium Of the Union.
All these facts were known, but they were
all dsre gardcd; and Mr.. Clark was placed
in nomination against the advice of the best
friends of the Whig party, who pointed to
his relatively small vote in 1897 and ';}S and
the various causes, which, when conccntra.
ted, would, in the first place invite opposition,
where otherwise there would have been little
or none I; and secondly, insure defeat. We
had no personal feelings to gratify-we knew
Of no circumstance which could by possibility
he construed into cause Of personal offence
!. against Mr.. Clark-to us he had been always
kind and respectfnl--but conscious as we
were, of his nnjustiable conduct in the case
of the two Frenchmcn kidnapped from our
Il shores, and of the natural and universal hos
4 lility felt towards him by our Irish and Ger.
man population IN consequence ofhis conduct
to the deceived but innocent immigrants who
arrived here last summer, we deemed it our
duty to use every means in our power to pre-
vent, it possible, his denomination, and the
defeat Of our party which would inevitably
follow. But we argued and pleaded in vain;
aud when renominnled, we came at once To
his support and used oil our exertions to Sc
cure his election, on the ground that he was
entitled to the support Of tho Wing party az
the regularly selected representative of their
principles, without reference to his personal
qualifications or his dcbatcable acts. In
common with not less than fifteen thousand
Of our fellow Wings who gricved over the
folly Of thus stalking our all on an unpopular
individual, we used every effort ant made
every cxcr,ion which it was possible to make,
to secure his SUCCESS; but at the same time
with full conviction that we were laborng
IN u hopeless cause.
A Wei. the election is over. The lumber
of votes polled, prove how faithfully and
against tlrcir convictions Of policy, have the
Wing party labourcd. Never did party
exert itself more zealously, or from more
patriotic motives; but human nature is al
ways The same. Those who felt that as a
nation and as a people they had been persc-
cuted-whciher there was or was not cause
Tor the feeling wo will not now stop to en-.
quire-could not and would not be persuaded
to vote our ticket; and by this means we lost
not less than four thousand rotes, hich, with
my othc- candidate, would have been cast
for the Wings; aud then, instead of being
defeated as we have been, we should haze
carried Tho city by not less than six thousand
majority
II To our friends at a distance, who have
right 10 know phy we have been defeated in
this city when they had perfect right to
anticipate a signal triumph, these Jacfs are OF
the utmost importance. We experience no
p,caslrc in giving them publicity and would
# We could consistently with our duty.
most gladly suppress them. But VIC may not
10 30. Nineteen tweDticths Of the Wings
of our city will bear testimony to the truth OF
| what we have said and now that the cause