Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1846-07-23
Both Houses of Congress have voted 10
adjourn on the 10th Of August.

The Committee to whom was referred,
at the last Town Meeting, letter from
inhabitants of Newport in the Isle Of
Wight, on the subject Of Peace, respect
fully report the following reply, which is
now open for the reception Of signatures:
From Newport, in Rhode Island, to Nep-
port in the Isle Of Wight, thanks, greet
ing and cOngratu!atiOn.
BRETHREN AND SISTERS OF THE OLD
ENGLISH FAMILY, AND OF AN OLDER,
GREATER AND HoLIER FAMILY sTILL,-
BY having SO long delayed to ac-
knowledge and answer your very crafty
ing letter, we are enabled to use terms Of
congratulation where, few months since,
we could only have expressed to you our
strong wishes and our anxious hopes.
At moment when our two Govern
ments seemed on the point, at least, Of
saying we have done all that we will or
can to settle our differences bynegotiation.
and now the issue must be left to the God
Of battles at the moment when human
wisdom and human wlfuness seemed
alike to retire into themselves, and Peace
to fold her wings and prepare to hide her
head Just then a Higher Power and
Providence made itself suddenly and
strikingly manifest, and the friends Of
Peace, that is, the great body Of the peo-
pie, were at once delighted and surprized
to hear that the rival parties, after having
exhausted all they had to say in long and
pcrplexing negotiations, had, all at once.
as if by a special impulse of Providence,
virtually said to each other: Come we
will leave off fruitless talking, and do the
simple, easy, and fruitful act of peace and
reconciliation.
Not to inquire where belongs the hui
man honor of this decision or the dishonor
Of having so long delayed it,-have we
not, almost literally, seen with our eyes,
friends, the hand of His providence in
this, who "maketh wars to cease unto the
ends of the Earth" Most heartily and
devOutly do we congratulate you on this
consummation May it prove the eom-
mencement of a renewed stage of har-
mony between us nepcr to be interrupted! !
And may it be a strong encouragement
to the lovers Of peace, on both sides Of
the water, to labor and pray, more earn
estly than ever, for the coming Of the
Prince Of Peace.
For we cannot but solemnly reflect,
amidst our rejoicing and congratulations,
that your nation and ours have duties,
not to each other only, but to the other
nations of the earth,-and we cannot but
mourn that those duties have been so
much neglected and violated. That we
of the anglo saxon race should seem to
emulate more the rapacity than the noblcr
qualities Of our ancestral tribe, in our
dealings with the races around us. We
think with sorrow and shame of the havoc
which has been made in these last few
years among human lives and feelings,
the wrongs that have been done to hui
manity, morality and all the higher in
terests of our Countries and our kind,
to-say nothing of the Christian spirit, by
the lust Of dominion misleading our rep
resentatives and rulers.
May that God who has made us men,
bcrs one of another, and has said that il
one member suffer all the members suffer
with it; who has made Of our blood all
nations of men to dwell on all the face of
the earth, and has appointed the bounds
of their habitation, that they might seek
the Lord may he incline the nations
soon to seek the God of Peace!
We are, in the bonds of Peace, yours,
CHARLES Il. BROOKS,
EDWARD w. LAWTON,
CHRIS. l.. ROBBINS,
BENZ. d. ROWLAND,
WIN. b. SWAN.