Republican Herald

THE PROVIDENCE MEMORIAL

Mr. Burges' Third appearance in Congress during the present Session. It seems this singular document was committed to the care of Mr. Burges! But for this it is probable he would have remained in his room the remainder of the Session. But he was selected as the medium of its presentation to the House— a fit instrument for such a purpose!

We should not have cared, who presented this memorial, if the presentation of it had been accompanied with correct and true statements.— But, alas, it is impossible for Mr. Burges to do anything without indulging in his habitual predisposition to misstate facts & exaggerate whatever he attempts to say or do. The statement of Mr. B. was incorrect in several respects.

He stated "the memorial was signed by 1065 persons, who were nearly all the voters in Providence." Mr. Burges must have known this was altogether untrue—yet he evidently intended to convey the idea to the House, that the memorial was signed by all the voters in Providence. Did he not know better? he must have seen by the names, that all the signers did not belong to Providence. In fact a great portion of them belong to other towns. The memorial was circulated in every part of the State, where it was likely to get subscribers. It contains the names of upwards of sixty persons in the town of North Providence.— Yet with this fact before Mr. Burges, he deliberately asserts the signers to the memorial contain nearly all the voters in Providence. He could not be mistaken in this matter. He knows the residence and location of every man on that document. How then does he stand in relation to his statement!!!

In these statements he was corrected, and properly so, By Mr. Pearce—and because he was so corrected by the latter gentleman, the Jack Downings, in their pure organ of yesterday, the Journal, abuse him without measure—and traduce him, for having dared "to contradict Tristram" BURGES.

Wonderful indeed!—But more anon—and a word or two for Senator Knight.