Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1843-01-05
THE CARPET BAG LETTERS.


We publish below the I'd letter Of
Dutee j. Pearce, referred to in our
last.
The Providence Herald has stated
that there was another letter Of Mr.. P's.
IN the Carpet bag, which explained
away the idea or intentioE Of fraud, as
was inferred from the first letter. The
Journal says there was no other letter
Of Mr. Pearce's found in the carpet bag
except the one already Published, and
the one following How much this ex-
plains the first letter the reader will
Judge. 1t has no aIlusion to it. Mr..
Pearcc, perhaps, has a copy of the
explanatory lcuer-ii so, he will no
doubt publish it.
NEWPORT, March 9th, 1912
Dear SRI must cncroach little upon
the Sabbath. 10 make known To you what is
,hr order of the day among w. | will pre-.
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mach Iur " ~ do here. nnd ~ every part ot
the State all that can be done by our oppo-
nentS will be done, 10 drive uur men from
their allegiance. The policy of our oppo.
nent. here, with you, aud perhaps IN every
past Of The State, seems to lead them to re.
ward oil tI. descrtcrs from our ranks, aud to
make Conspicuous men of traitor knave..-
You have, IN Providence, your WhlppIe
Browns aud Mariin Stoddards /; and we have
h"Je Charles Collins, aud some men, VI possi-
bic, smaller than he is, md tao small to be
named. Benedict Arnold when he left us,
was hoHored with n Brgadlcr Generals com.
,ml-slun ~ the British Army, md hud more
pvcr, the promise OF some land patents. ~ the
rnUntry from whence came your Mr.. Samuel
Crrr-y. one Of the orators IN a Providence
landhulders' meeting. One of The arStocrat
plans 81 operation here also. IL drHgoosing.-
They send their lords Among those they
would make l,.wcrs of wood aud dra wers ot
water, to get from them pledge IN writing.
10 vote for the landholders constitution
Ous thing we have Ia console Us Is this the
searching operation that is now pcrvadlng
our ranks will winnow the chutf from the
gram, and We shall hereafter know who are
Tor us, and who are against us. ] have heard
inat you are talking about u mass meeting III
Your city: will this be good policy? lfit|
should not be SO large Us meetings Of Tins
KIDD heretofore, will You not rather lose
than gpln by u2 We want and shall con.
,mue to wunt, until the 2lsi, the services Of
hli our U' u here, and ~ regions round about
~. We had last evening, at the Court
House, a very full aud animated meeting
". Turner addressed the meeting in spcecI,
of more than two hours durnlinn he was
III nd IN iha nd MI. inn
aud his speech was the most able have yet
heard II 1t could be repeated IN every town
IN The State ] would guarantee the success
ui our cause, by ten thousand majority. Al
this citing we adopted all the necessary
measures Tor full organization and prepara
tion foi The coming contest. Ii having been
understood that Judge Duflce would deliver
n lecture here, on Thursday next, ~ favor Of
the landhold.rs,' ugsinst the peoples consl-
tuition. u committee was appointed To wait
upon him Oh his arrival here, and request
his permission for sonic ono of us TO reply
insinnier Ia his lecture he, the Judge. To
hsyo the close of the debate The committee
consists OF Dutce J. Pearce, Joseph Joslrn,
and Elisha Atkins. We shall call upon, nr
write q note to The Judge o.jnorrow, aud
then we shall see what We shall $50,
aud shall know what we shall know. Mr..
Turner handled the Judges without NIT
trns, and guess they will lose all ,helJ fine
feathers before they get out of their pending
diffirultles they will hnd what iunlus SAID
u be true---"ihe feathers winch atorn the
royal bird support his flgh, strip hun Of his
rluu,ng., and you fix hlm upon The csrih."-
regard their opinion without reason aud
wrhoo, argument, Of M much consequence
trnd n" tp"rr) as the opinions of any three of