Rhode Island Republican

For the REPUBLICAN.

My honest Countrymen,

Permit me for a moment to leave my plough, and for once become a prophet; or at least attempt the gift of prophecy. You have already been told in several of the federal Newspapers which are devoted to falsehood, that the salaries of the principal officers of our government have lately been raised to a vast amount -that the Constitution has been broken down and destroyed by repealing the Judiciary Act of the last session of Congress, and that in consequence of it, the blood of our citizens would soon be seen running down our streets-and finally that a French fleet had arrived in the Chesapeake, and made a DEMAND on our government for SIX MILLIONS of DOLLARS!!

But, my honest friends, these alarming reports have all proved to be idle tales, without the least foundation or colour of truth. They were fabricated for electioneering purposes, in order to deceive and delude the unwary class of our citizens.

I mention to you these gross impositions, only with a view to put you on your guard against their future wiles. Their last federal papers which shall circulate previous to the day of giving in your votes, will (if I have not greatly lost the gift of prophecy) teem forth with the vilest falsehoods and the most abominable slanders. They may not be "Ocean massacres," nor "Tub Plots;"-but perhaps some dreadful conspiracy in our government! Or the still more alarming intelligence of the landing of a large army of French desperadoes in one of the Southern States!! or something else as terrible and frightful,

But I again caution you to beware of those who may at any time, with a view of influencing you in your suffrage, thus insult your understandings by circulating either verbally or in print, such base and palpable insinuations. After the election is over, you will not see them so busy in mischief, running from corner to corner, and from pillar to post with their ballad beggar stories.

A RHODE-ISLAND FARMER.