Republican Herald

FREEMEN OF RHODE ISLAND.

Next Wednesday is an important day for you. By your votes on that day depends the question whether you will be governed by men of your own free choice, or by men elected by Bank agents or Bank influence. As you value your liberties so will you decide. If you choose the first part of the question, you will vote for Farmer FRANCIS and the Senate associated with him. If you prefer the second part of the question, you will support Senator Knight and his Senate all of whom are either Presidents, Directors or Stockholders of Banks. This latter fact of itself, is not of so much importance, as the other fact, that they are all in favour of the Bank of the United States; an Institution which endangers your liberties and threatens to drive your government into submission to its own aristocratic terms. Are you prepared to forge the chains of your own and your children's servitude, to a monied aristocracy? Are you ready to seal your own dependance upon the capricious and despotic whims of Bank despots? Pause a moment and ask yourselves who opposed the power of the Legislature to tax Bank property: Who advised litigation with the State, in resisting the imposition of such a tax? Was not Governor Knight president of one of the leagued Banks, who carried the State to Washington, & subjected it to an immense expense in maintaining its own sovereignty? These things should not be forgotten. Why was the tax on Banks resisted? Was it not, to exempt their own exclusive privileges from an equal participation of the public burdens, and throw them wholly on to the Land of the agricultural interest? Can these acts be disputed? Into whose hands is it most prudent to trust power? Into the hands of men, who live upon the necessities of their fellow citizens and therefore, necessarily less regardful of their rights? Or into the hands of men, whose property, whose feelings and whose habits, are allied with your own? Men, who are beyond the reach of Bank influences and who are neither borrowers or suppliants of Banks? Such men fellow citizens, compose the Farmers Prox. Which will you prefer? Answer deliberately by your votes on Wednesday next.

FREEMEN OF RHODE ISLAND.

A year has not yet elapsed, since you by a united action, restored your government to its legitimate purity. Previously to that period, for two years, your own quiet, and the happiness of the State had been continually interrupted by a succession of ineffectual elections, brought upon you by injudicious and inexperienced councils. You became wearied with a three-cornered warfare, and rose in your strength and deposed those, who had assumed the right to govern you in defiance of your will. Thus you restored harmony among yourselves and permanency to your Legislative authority. Who is it that again disturbs your quiet? Who is it, that again declares the people shall not rule? The very men you rebuked the last year and dismissed from your confidence: What new title have they to your support? Have they changed their principles? Have they given any assurances they will rule with better discretion, if reinvested with power, than before: Certainly not. Why then are you again disturbed? The last year these same men, declared it was almost treason for you to oppose them, because you interrupted the quietude of the State. They told you, if you would let them be re-elected all would be well. Now, is it not a little surprising, that they have so soon forgotten, their professions for the good and harmony of the State, and now are zealously engaged in all the mischiefs they can originate? What is their object? Power, and nothing but power! The desire of this, has made them mad. They appeal to the worst passions of the heart to engender strife and confusion, and, then attempt to avail themselves of the phrenzy they create. It is singular, that the Federal, now the Bank faction, never acquire power, but through means of extraneous excitement. And it is equally singular, that as soon as such excitement subsides, they lose the power they had acquired. This, at first, appears as a solecism-but it is historically true. At the present time, they are attempting to regain the possession of the State Administration by means as cruel as they are dishonorable. A panic has been created, having merely an imaginary existence, for the worst of purposes. To enkindle party feelings, and arouse their friends to action, were the plain objects of all their clamor and of all their exertions. The proof of this, is in their systematic attack upon the administration. Do they expect to satisfy the people of their fitness for office by any merits of their own? Oh no! This is not even pretended. It is by constant and incessant abuse of the President of the U. States and the constituted authorities, they expect to succeed. Traduction and abuse are a poor basis to stand upon. They are at best but evanescent, to the Journal calls upon its friends to relieve the State from the stigma of toryism. Why that work was done by the democracy of Rhode-Island at the general election last year-and the same democratic party will preserve the State from such stigma the present year.