Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1850-01-31
FoR THE DAILY NEws.
Mr.. Editor,
As one of Your subscriber


| As one Of your subscribers,
have been highly gratfed with your mos;
pralse-worthy Editorial on the subject of
the Registered State Debt" incurred by
our patriotic and chivalous State in the war
of our Rev luton. She needed money for
the payment Of Troops and for the various
sxigences of those troublous times and
pledged her credit and faith to such as
would come forward in the emergency and
respond 10 the call Of their country for the
means to drive back and defeat the com
mon enemy who had invaded their soil vii
a determination on the part of the Moihe.
Country, to nip in the bud those aspirations
for Freedom which animated our Fathers in
the great struggle Of our Revolution. Con-
fding citizens, burning with commendable
zeal in the glorious cause Of liberty, nobly
came forward and impaired freely of their
substance, at the urgent call of the State,
with patriotism and confidence worthy of
the gratitude and admiration of their sue
cessors. II their cherished and no y cause
had failed and The Sun Of liberty in the west
had gone down in darkness, their properly
thus cheeriuly siaked, would have been re-
garded by these patriots indeed, as neces-
sary sacrifice at freedoms altar. No mur-
mur would have been heard at It's loss. but
deep and pognan, regrets would have filled
their ag.nlzed bosoms, because the tyrants
had iriumphed and their Country's fondest
hopes were apparently forever blas,ei.-
But, happily, how different has been the
result and what subject of congratnlaton
1t now is 10 all, that our Fathers so glo-
rlously triumphed The victory has in
deed been won, the common benefit of indie
pendcnce has been procured at an immense
sacrifice of blood and treasure. Shall those
who impaired the sinews Of war in that
emergency, a. the sol citation of then State
and on her plighted faith, now be told that
the claims are cd and yalue ess and that
the State owes them nothing Why, this
is strange position indeed while they, or
their Representatives hold in their hands
her solemn obligations signed by her Cen
eral Treasurer that 30 many hundreds or so
many thousands are due to certain indvid-
uaIs, al certain rate Of interest, and on the
backs Of which certificates are endorsed |
sundry amounts Of interest accrued, as paid |
by the State, while she was acting worth
lily of the high character she acquired among
the old Thirteen, in the times which tried |
mems souls. Besides, the State has, since |
the Revolution and in this country, repeat
edly made appropriations and taken out of .
market large amounts of these claims,
which would hardly have been dcne had |
there been really nothing due to these injur-
ed claimants as some Of our present sag
ard gave Legislators al,edge. say with
you, Mr. Editor, take the case beyond The
influence of Legislation and place i, where
the weapons of sarcasm and ridculc are
powerles.. | mean that it be submitted to
the People, at the Polls, who would look
alone at the facts (wh hich in the Legislature
are so distorted and mystifed by the nge-
nuiiy Of Counsel learned in the Law and
would dedide the case accordingly. am
not without hope that even the prominent
opponents Of these claims, who are of the
legal profession, divcsting themselves of all
prejudice, viii examine their merits more
maturely and dispassionately, and will f.
naly abandon their false, or, to their minds,
spccious positions, repudiating Reputation /.
as base and disgraccful refuge of dishon-
esty and fraud, unworthy of the fame of a
State whose sacrifices in the holy cause of |
liberty have gained for her an enviable po-
siton amidst the glorious Commonwealth, /
who stand so prominently amor g Empires,
in the Nineteenth Century, as the United
States of America. May this Union, es-
tablishsd through such sacrifices and suffer
ings be perpetua,ed and The arm of him /.
pslsied who would reckessly destroy H..
fair fabric, whose beautiful proportions and
simple grandeur are the admiration of the
world X.
NEWPORT, Jan. %, 1880.