Republican Herald

Republican Herald.

PROVIDENCE.

Wednesday, Nov. 16, 1842.

[From our Correspondent.]

Newport, Nov. 13, 1842.

Editor Republican Herald:

SIR—A very large and spirited meeting of the friends of Democracy and Equal Rights, was held at the State House in this town, on Saturday evening, the 12th inst. The meeting was called to order by Robert R. Carr, Esq., whereupon Gen. Edwin Wilbur was chosen Chairman, and Capt. George Howland, Secretary. William Ennis and Dutee J. Pearce, Esqrs., addressed the meeting in a very able and lucid manner. George Howland, Esq., read an address, depicting in strong language, the corruption of the aristocracy. Mr. Ennis presented resolutions which were well received and unanimously adopted by the Convention. A committee was appointed to select Delegates to attend the General Convention, and directed to report the persons named on Wednesday evening, at which time the meeting stands adjourned.

It is frequently observed by some of the moderate Charterists, that they should suppose the reasonable portion of the Suffrage party would unhesitatingly give their votes for the proposed Constitution. I presume they judge us by themselves, and there they are mistaken. They are contending for power—we for principle. The odious and aristocratic feature, requiring the voters to sign their names at full length on the back of their votes, is a sufficient bar to prevent any Democratic Republican from recording his name in favor of an instrument, which is intended and designed as a bane to their political existence.

Mechanics and laboring men! beware! Touch not the unclean thing—it is the work of your adversary, who is determined not only to enslave you but your children.

Yours truly,

ONE OF THE OLD SCHOOL.

The following are the Resolutions referred to by our correspondent:

Resolved, That in Rhode Island, if anywhere in the union, it is the duty of the true democracy to rally in support of those great principles of American freedom, which have here been recently assailed by leading men of the dominant party in the State and practically defied.

Resolved, That we cordially respond to the resolution of our political friends in Cumberland, in favor of a General Convention, to be assembled at Providence, on the 29th instant, to adopt measures for an effective organization of the democratic party throughout the State.

Resolved, That John Tyler, by the manly maintenance of his principles, amidst difficulties almost unparalleled—by his resistance to many pernicious measures, urged upon his approval, by a federal Congress—and by the undeserved censures cast upon him by Henry Clay and his devoted partizans, is entitled to the favorable regard of the American democracy, and to their support in every future act of his administration, not at variance with the doctrines of their political faith.

Resolved, That the recent elections in six states of the union, and especially those in Ohio and New York, have illustrated, with overwhelming light and force, the cheering reality of the sentiment, so encouraging to democrats in the hour of adversity, that, 'Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again.'