The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

Providence,

FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1816.

Congressional Nomination.

JAMES B. MASON,

AND

JOHN L. BOSS, Jun. Esq's.

The election takes place on Tuesday next. The freemen of Rhode-Island are invited to assemble in their respective towns, on Tuesday next, to elect Delegates for the 15th Congress, and Representatives in the next General Assembly. It is the invitation of duty, of patriotism and of interest, and cannot, therefore, on a trivial pretext, be refused.

It is a subject of general congratulation that no candidates have been opposed to our worthy Representatives, Messrs. Mason and Boss, as it betokens the approach of that millenial period in politicks, when the jealousies and animosities of party shall be sacrificed to the publick weal. It evinces that Americans still adhere more closely to principles than to men; and that those, who maintain the true honour and substantial interests of their country, will not lose their reward, from the influence of political sectarianism.

Messrs. Mason and Boss were entrusted with the confidence of their fellow-citizens at a period of peculiar responsibility and multifarious concern; at a period when the evils of war were to be redressed, conflicting interests reconciled, and grievous but necessary taxes imposed—in fine, at a period, when every section of our country and every department of our government imperiously required the vigilance, attention and oversight of the immediate representatives of the people. The freemen of Rhode-Island are too watchful not to have observed the course pursued by Messrs. Mason and Boss; and they are too just not to have approved it. They must have seen that every effort was made, consistent with the obligations due to our common country, to protect and encourage the peculiar interests of our little State; and that an enlarged and liberal policy was adhered to by their representatives, instead of the contracted notions and inveterate prejudices of the partisan. Let them not hesitate again to repose confidence in men who have so richly deserved it. On Tuesday next, let no one absent himself from the polls, because no opposing candidates are nominated; for the enemies of the people abound in every community, and they compensate, by cunning devices and subtle machinations, for their deficiency in the force of talent and the influence of integrity. Against such men, it becomes freemen to be on their guard, for they will confound, if they do not betray them. In short, let every man attend Town-Meeting, if it be merely to keep alive in his bosom an attachment to our chartered rights, and to stimulate him to defend them, alike from the secret inroads of corruption and the open assaults of faction.