The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-04-26
RHODE standard THE PRESIDENT

RHODE ISLANDAND THE PRESIDENT
As we stated last week, the Governor of
Rhode Island sent on to the General Govern
ment for aid against the insurrectionary move.
ments of the suffrage convention. By the fol-
lowing extract of a letter from the President.
we are happy to find that he rightly avows his
determination to stand by the constituted au-
thorities of Rhode Island:
have to assure your ExceIIency that should
the time arrive, and my fervent prayer is that
| 1t may never come, when an insurrection shall
exist against the Government of Rhode Island,
and a requlslton shall be made upon the Exec
utlve OF the United States to furnish protection
wnlcn is guaranteed to each state by the Com
stitutIon and laws, shall not be found to sbr;nL
from the performance of duty, which, Wills
It would be the most painful, is at the same
time the most imperative. have also to saw
that in such a contingency, the Executive could
not look into the real or supposed defects of
the existing Government to ascertain whether
some other plan of Government proposed for
adoption was better suited Ito the wants and
more in accordance with the wishes of any Dor
ton of her citizens. To throw the Executive
power of this General Government into anv
such controversy would be to make the Presi-
dent the armed arbitrator between the peonl,,
of the different States and their constituted a,,
thorItles, and might lead to an usurped power
dangerous alike to the stability of the state
Governments and the liberties of the people
Ii will be my duty, on the contrary, to respect
the acquisitions of that Government which has
been recognised as the existing Government of
the State through all times past, until shall
be advised in regular manner, that it hos been
altered and abolished, and another substituted
| in its place, by legal and peaceabfe proceedings
adopted and pursued by the authorities and
people of the State. Nor can bring myself
readily to believe that any such contingency
will arise, as shall render the interference of
this Government at all necessary-rhe pe0Nle
of the State of Rhode Island have been too
long distinguished for their love of order and
regular government to rush into revolution IN
order TO obtain a redress of grievances, real or
supposed, which a government under which
their fathers lived in peace, would not in due
season redress. No portion OF her People will
be willing to drench their fair fields with the
blood oftheir own brothers, in order to- obtain
n redress of grievances which their constitution
al authorities cannot for any length Of time,
sist, if properly appealed to by the popular
voice.-NOne ofth will be willing to set an
example, in the bosom of this Union, of such
frightful disorder, such needless commissions
of society, such danger to life, liberty and pro-
perty, and likely to bring discredit ON the char
acter of popular governments.-My reliance
citizens is great and abiding, and will not
doubt bun that spirit of Cancellation will pre-
vail over rash councils, that all actual grievan-
ces will be promptly redressed by the existing
Government, and that another bright example
will be added to the many already prevailing
among the North American Republics, OF
change without revolution, and redress of
grievances without force or violence.
| tender to your Excellency assurances of my
high respect and consideration
JOHN TYLER.
Washington, April 1, 1912.
WHERE WILL TAmMAsY HAVE To sroP?-
Aye, there is the rub. She has given way to
the Irish party this time, and as to stopping
hereafter, it must be with 'snub' or not at
all. Next fall see what the Irish will demandf
II they should say, give US the nomination OF
half the ticket for the legislature, or we will
put ticket of our own in the field and let the
wings succeed, can Tammany give way? For
the honor of American principles and feelings,
our bIrthright by inheritance, we should hope
not But she has given way now, in hopes to
save The cIty-and even in this the success of
Iammany has been but partial. Next fall if
Iammany yields, the ascendancy in this city is
lost forever. An Independent party will be
formed, composed of natives of all sides, that
will sweep the city like whirlwind
suppose that n new election takes place in the
sixth ward, will American democrats give way
to Irish dictation' IfTammany permits it, let
the Americans of both sides unite and form a
ticket, and say to Catholic foreigners, your die
tatioD is at an end.-N. Y. Aurora.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT The Washington
papers of Thursday state that notice had been
received by the Navy Department, that the
U. S. steam ffigate Missouri in ascending the
Potomac, on Monday, ran aground some six
ty or eighty miles below Washington, opposite
the harbor of Port Tobacco. Every effort
was Immediately made 10 get her off, by back
ing her engines and taking the guns and 9TH
er weighiy articles aft. Lieut.. John F. Bor-
den was sent out in charge Of boats crew,
+ with an anchor, for the purpose Of heaying the
vessel off, when, by some means, the anchor
got overheard, carrying with it the chain CO.
: BILE, which, in running out, either killed, or
carried overheard every one Of the Is men on
board. including The lieutenant. and oil perish
ed. The Madisonian says that so far as the
facts have come 10 the Department, every pre-
caution seems TO nave been taken, and there
is no reason 10 attach blame to any one. The
Mississippi had been dispatched to render AID.
From the Baltimore american.
AWFUL STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.
! Fearful Destruction Of Lires.--It is our
melancholy duty to record the most fearful and
fatal steamboat explosion which has ever taken
place on the waters of the Chesapeake. The
new and splendid steamboat Medofa. built for
the line between this city and Norfolk, was
yesterday rendered wreck by The explosion