The Rhode Island Republican

The Opposition in Congress endeavoring to profit by their bitter experience obtained at the last session, have recently prescribed to themselves a different mode of attack upon the administration from that, the crazy pursuit of which, has hitherto covered them with deep and merited disgrace.

The little factions at Washington have, in good earnest, set themselves about ascertaining whether there really exists any reasonable probability of their being able to squeeze Gen. Jackson into the Presidential chair. They have their agents and harpies attending near the various state legislatures now in session, observing the signs of the times. The friends of Jackson in Congress have been very busily engaged in sending political letters in every direction throughout the country; two or three of those letters have even found their way to some folks in our little corner of the world—that's all well enough—no matter.

It is curious to notice how the work is laid out by these reformers. Every "good man and true" has his job; to M'Duffie is assigned one piece of work, in the honorable struggle—to Ingham another—to Kremer and Hamilton still different duties are allotted. The part in which Col. Hamilton is to move, is of all others, the most arduous and important; but nothing can be so arduous, so tedious or so difficult of performance, but what the energies of his powerful mind will subdue and accomplish,—only give him time enough. Col. Hamilton has, as old Kremer said, got to "cry aloud and spare not," by calling up in the House of Representatives every morning the alien and sedition law of '98—how prodigiously honorable such an employment for a highminded Southerner.