Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1844-09-19

meet the taunts, on this subject, of the
political demagogues who are so widely
\ combined in urging on the corrupt spirits
of the nation for your destruction, and in
their leading public papers, openly direct
ing their attention to your wealth, in
hopes that it may prove sufficient in
| ducement for the banding together of the
ruflianism of the neighboring cities and
States, in sufficient numbers to overcome
the limited population of your own small
! State, and thus devote it to devastation
and plunder. Does any one Of you doubt
that this is the object of the Van Burens,
the Wrights, the Mortons, and the
host of unprincipled demagogues who
under the pretence of righting wrongs,
| (Which your own sense assures you, they
well know, do not now nor never have
existed,) hope to lure the whole brute
portion of the population Of the northern
States to the support of their party in its
present desperate condition, and 10 repay
their services, as they ever have done,
by the punder of the public, either Off
cially through its treasury or when that
is beyond their reach, by the devastation
and pllage of the smallest State Of the
lnn md Ia,,htlne. Ia, ~,
its wealth, selected by them for that very
reason.
Is this fiction, or do you not feel it to
be reality! How necessary, then, that
we should fortify our cause by that great
est of all bulwarks,-a conscience void
of wrong. Lot us then, amply provide
for the aleviatlon of the sufltrngs of
every human being within our borders
who are unable to provide for themselves
Never let our enemies have such wea-
pom TO use against us, as TIE aCeL1ct to
proride .tor this class Of mfortuaotes
would place in their power, especially
when so small sum only is required for
its accomplishment.
Will not some individual, whom Prov
idcnce has blessed with abundant means,
who has been made steward of five
talents,-stcp forward and send his name
to the Committee III Providence, or to
some Of their agents in other parts Of the
State, for the whole amount needed, for
8, 600 ifnot, for "a 600 or for 81 600 !
for 81 900! for S590l for 500! for
$50 for SlO' for any thing, rather than
to have it said I SAea4oo late for remedy, }
but for Such us you, the blood-curd!ing
curses now yelled forth from the dungeons
and cells Of the prisons and poor houses
of Rhode Island, calling on God thoir
only friend for vengeance Oh their un.
natural race,-tlieir own flesh and blood
\ their OUn br0thers-but for Such as yOu,
/ those wrctchcd maniacs might have been
restored to sanity, to happiness, and their
curses turned into prayers for your peace
and prosperily.-rraycrs spontaneously
flowing from grateful hearts, offered to
the Father Of Him whose example, whilst
personally on earth, you profess to follow,
and who then repeatedly exerted His
Divine power in restoring TO reason the
shattered inteilccts of such as these
whose compassionate example you have
had the power to initiate, but which you
have neglected to do, whilst you are pro.
Tossing to offer worship in His mc,-to
/ His Fathcr,-to their Father in Heaven,
who most agsurcdly hears their cries, and
who, when His mercy is exhausted in
long waiting for redress by the hands Of
their fellow creatures, may yet arise and
terribly avcngc their wrongs.
I A FARMER.