Rhode Island Republican

Contrast—read judge for yourselves.

Under the former administration, the National Debt increased almost a million of Dollars a year, upon an average; and according to their system, there was no rational probability that it would ever be reduced a cent. On the first of January 1790, when it was completely funded, it was dollars, 69,740,366 27 cents. January 1st, 1801, it was dollars, 80,161,207 60 cents, an increase of dollars. 10,420,841 33 cents in eleven years, or dols. 947,349 21 cents average annual increase. The present administration, notwithstanding their abolition of all the internal taxes, have been enabled, as the President officially assures us in his late Message, "to answer all the regular exigencies of government, to pay from the Treasury, within one year, upwards of eight millions of dollars, and meet fully, of the public debt, exclusive of upwards of one million paid by the sale of Bank stock, and making in the whole a reduction of nearly five millions and a half of principal. and to have more in the Treasury, four millions and a half of dollars, which are in a course of application to the further discharge of debt, and current demands."

Here is demonstration. Federalists, behold, in this contrast, an absolute contradiction of your predictions, and a mathematical refutation of your system. Republicans, rejoice in the actual fulfilment of your most sanguine expectations, and the practical confirmation of your principles. Fellow-Citizens, of all political denominations, attend to official statements; be convinced by facts, and instructed by experience. If it is not a clear, established, unequivocal dictate of interest, and therefore of duty, to support Republican men and measures, in preference to modern Federalists, "calculation is a cheat and arithmetic a liar."

[Sun.]