New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-07-01

Wa.hip gton Albany \ew-Iork and Richmond,
and elsewhere. came out in support Of the DoH
ssrty. encouraging them IN their work of Rebellion
and Treason And when matters had got 10
crisis and the two pare. were preparing 'or civil
war and evsry hour it was expected - b!aze out,
a great Tammany meetin. was held IN the City OF
New-York headed by the leading mcR OF the par
". the Cambrenrs, the Nanderrocls, tbs Aliens
&c with perfect knowledge that the mii'ary
power of the Union was to be employed, u neces-
sarv. TO suppress the instruction, and, not~ih-
standing, they passed resolutions tending to awe
the President, and 10 countenance and cheer the
Treason.
Fortunately, numbers Of the Dorr party aban-
doned their Chief; be fed. and Rhode Island,
snaided by any actual force Of the Federal author
tv proved herself able alone to maintain law, order
and government within her borders.
do not attribute to ny fellow-ciizcns here as
sembed, from whom | differ in opinion, any dis
position to counienance the revolutionary proceed
ing. in Rhode Island. do not believe that they
approve it. | do not believe that their party gen
orally co.d approve it, nor some Of the other eI-
ample. of spirit Of disorraniz,ton which have
enumerated; but the misfortune j., in time OF high
party excitement that the leaders commit them
selves and finally commit the body OF their party,
who perceive that, unless they stand by and sus-
tain their leaders division and perhaps destruc-
ton of the party would he the consequence. vi
all the springs Of human action, party ties are
perhap. the most powerful. Interest has been
supposed 10 be more 30. but party tiss are more
influential. unless they are regarded a. a modifea-
ton OF imaginary interest. Under their sway We
have seen not only individuals but whole comuu.
mites abandon their long cherished interests and
principles and turn round and oppose them with
violence.
Did not the rebellion in Rhode Is,nd find for
ito support precedent established by the majority
in Congress, in the irregular admission OF Terrific
RES, "a States, into the Union, to which | have
heretofore alluded l. there not reason to fear
that the example which Congress had previously
presented encouraged the Rhode Island rebellion
I, has been attempted to defend that rebellion
upon the doctrines of the American Declaration
of Independence, but countenance 10 1t can
be fairly derived from them. That Declaration
asserts, it il true. that whenever n Government
become. destructive of the ends of life, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness, for tie security oil
which it wa instituted, it is the right OF the
people to alter OF abolish it, and institute new
government and 50 undoubtedly it is. But this
il n right only 70 be- exercised in grave and ex-
tremc cn.cs. " Prudence indeed viii dictate,
say. that vencrated instrument, that Govern
men,. long established should not be changed
for light and transient causes" But when
long train OF abuses and usurrations, pursuing
invariably the same object, cyinccs design 10
reduce them under an absolute de>poiissl, it is
their right, their duty, to throw of such Govern
meni.'
VIII it be pretended that the actual Government
of Rhode Island il destructive Of life, liberty. or
the purssit of happiness That it has pcrpe-
trated a long train OF abuse. and ussrpations, pur-
suing the came invariaole object, to reduce the
people under absolute dcspotism Or that any
other cause Of complaint existed but such ~ might
be- peacefully remedcd. without violence and
without blood 2 Such as IN point OF TACT, the ie-
Ultimate Government had regularly summoned n
Convention to redress, butior lhe results OF whose
deliberations the restles. spirit OF disorder and
rebellion had not the patience to wait! why
fellow citizens, little khody God bless and pre-
serve hcr) is ons OF the most prosperous, eater
prizing, aud enlightened States IN this whole
Union. No where is life, liberty, ard properf!
more perfectly secure
How i. this right Of the People to abolish ~
existing Government, and To set up new one TO
be practically exercised Our Revolutionary an
ccslors did not telus by words, but they proclaim
ed it bv gallant and noble deeds. Who are ne
ann society, whenever and as often as caprice or
passion NAV prompt them When all the ar
judgements and ordinances of existing and organ
,zed society are Frustrated and subyerted. Us must
he suppssed in such a Iawlcss and Irregular move
ment n. that in Rhode I.land, the established
privileges and distinctions between the sexss, be-
tween the colors between the ages, between ma
tive, and foreigners, between the sane and insane,
and between the innocent and the guilty convict,
all the offspring of positive institutions, are cast
down and abolished, and society Is thrown INTO
one heterogeneous and snregulated mass. And Is
il commended that the major part of shs Babel con-
scgation is invested with the right to build up
AZ its pleasure, a new Government That as
often, and Whenever society can bc drummed up
and thrown sts such shapcess mass, the major
part u il may establish another and another new
Government in endless succession Why this
would oyerturn all social organization, make rcyO-
utions-ihe cxtreme and last resort OF an OPP
pressed people-the commonest occurrences OF
human life, asd the standing order of the day
How such a principle would operate in u certain
section Of this Union, with peculiar population
you will readily conceive No community could
endure such an intolernble state of thing. any
where. and all would, SCORER later, take refuge
from such ceaselc.s agitation, in the calm rspose
OF absolute dcspotism.
know Of no mede by which existing Gov
eminent can be ovcrthrown and put aside, and a
new one erected in i,s place but BY the consent OF
that Government. express or implied, or by icrci-
BILE resistance, that Is Revolution.
Fellow Citizens | have enumerated these ex-
amples of dangerous spirit Of Reorganization,
and disregard of law, with no purpose OF giving OF
fence. or exciting bitter and unknd feelings here
or elsewhere; but to illustrate the principles, char
acter and tendency of the two great parties into
which ,h. country i. divided. In all OF these ex-
,mples, the Democratic party as it calls Itself, Ia
denomination to which | respectfully think 1t has