Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1839-09-12

From the Providence Journal.
CONSPIRACY IN NEW YORK A.
GAlNST THE LIBERTIES OF
RHODE ISLAND.
We can truly say that we never read
political article which excited in Us
greater surprise than The following from
the New York Evening Post, a leading
organ of the administration. I'm 0itemp
has been made in The city Of New York, ID
orcrfhrO,o he gorernment Of Rhode Island
and 10 establish in lis place UNLIMITED
SUFFRAGE "A petition now hangs up IL
the office Of a locofoco paper in The city
of New York, addressed to the Congress
Of the United States, and calling upon
that body to force upon the landholdors
of Rhode Island, free s.0rage! The
agrdrians and locOlocos OF New York
have undertaken to dictate to the free
men OF Rhode Island what governn'en
they shall live under. Such un instanc,
of audacious, impertinent interference
by the people of one State with the al
fairs of another, is without parallel ia
the history of The country.
Time after time during the late con-
test in this State, have We told the free
men that The Iocolocos designed to i'm
pose fee suffrage upon US, aud that tho
first step in the work was manifested in
their nomination for Congress. Our
predictions were denied and laughed al
by our enemies ; we now point trium-
phantly to the proof proof deduced
directly from the locoiocos themselves,
proof undeniable and irresistible. Had
they carried tins election, we knew that
they would have claimed il as triumph
Of free suffrage, but we did not think
that on the very field Of their defeat they
would dare TO raise that banner; still
less did wo imagine that the PEOPLE OF
A FOREIGN STATE would dare to com
mence the attack upon our political in
slituiions. But so it is.
Tho Locoiocos all over the Union
are surprised and mortified nt the result
of our election. They expected to GER
ry this State they determined to carry
it, and they made such arrangements as
they thought could not fail such ar
engagements as would have succeeded in
almost any other State. They COM
menced early by the most strenuous and
active exer,ions, and by personal appli-
Gallon to every voter, upon whom there
was the least hope Of making an impress
sion. Money they poured out like wa.
ter, and we honestly believe that tho
locoiocos spent more money in this elec.
tion than was ever before spent in any
election in the State. They supposed
that all this was irresistible, and they
wrote to their employees at Washington
that this Stale was safe for them, and
that they gbt count with perfect Sc
curity upon two representatives. from
Rhode Island. The result astonished
them; il showed that there is something
in this State, which presents an irresisti-
BILE barrier to the intimidation, and bri-
berry, and corruption of the admnistra-
ton, that barrier is The landed qunHf-
cation, and unless this can be removed,
the locoiocos can never gain the per-
manent ascendency. They did, at this
election, every thing that they can ever
do, and they are convinced that the
only way to gain the power here is, to
commence at the foundation and over.
throw the basis Of the government
This done, it would be easy to carry the
State, for although the real bona fiji,
citizens would never agree to the agra
ransm Of the administration, their votes
would be of little consequence, and
might nt any time be overcome by the
ported rollers from the city Of New
York, who would come here by steam
boats at every election, and be
sworn in at the polls. Such things are
done at every election, in New York
Despairing Of carrying any such plan
here, they have commenced it at New
York, and a foreign state has dictated d
to us, what government we shall have
and what measures we shall adopt
Here is the petition, which we copy
from the New York Evening Post OF
Tuesday, Sd inst.
lFrom the New York Evening Post.
"Copies Of the petition which follows
have been left at this Office for sigma
tures. 1t brings up for discussion an
important question: whether a citizen
of the United States,an clector of Presi.
dent and Vice President, going from
this State to reside in Rhode Island, OF
any other State, the laws of which re
quwe freehold qualification, is thereby
DISTINGUISHED. We confess that wo in.
cline very strongly ,on hasty considera.
ton Of the subject, to the views takor
in the petition.
TO THE CONGRESS or THE UNITED STATES:
IN Senate and House Of Representative as
sembted:
Your memorialists, citizens Of the
United Stnies, residing in the State o
New York, respectfully address youl
honorable body in behalf OF their fellow
citizens, the unfranchiscd white men oI
Rhode Island, who are ALTE.FS in ha
State, under the operation OF a charter
granted by King Charles II. Of England
"The fourth section Of the fourth ar.
iicIe Of the Constitution c. the United
States, guarantees a Republican form o
Government 10 every State in The Union
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