New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-19
THE TRIBUN +
Truth Leaking Out

The leading article IN yesterday ; Sun bear,
tins title; but the amount Of truth which j. sui
fers to leak oUi, bears no reasonable proportion.
~ It's iaischOod 1t asserts that those journal
which have condemned the cour.e Of DOT an
Company in Rhode Island hostile to any tx
tension Of suffrage and proceeds to characterize
the Albany Evening Journa rs prominent enemy
sf the Suffrage Cause, and then pirates OF IL
confessions " IN regard to the aristocratc char.
acter Of the Charter aud of truth wrung from
one Of the journals that mas been foremost J..
hesping coniumcly on the People engaged in tn
movement for establishing Constitution &c.
&c. Every line Of tbs i full OF misrepresent-
alton "a villany eau make il. The Editor of the
Evening Journal i well known as one Of the most
ardent supporters Of Free Suffrage, broad and M
restricted here ard every wl-re He was one 81
the lending champions of the constitutional.
Amendment Of 1926, which struck ont Of our
State Constitution the requirement OF laNalion OF
Military service as a qualification for Suffrage
which qualifications had been imposed or retained
BY the Deinocra,ic Convention OF 1922. He has
ever been IA determined and formidable opponent
of ANY Registry Law, on the ground that it VII.
some how tc regarded u Restriction OF the
RI. OF Suffrage. He il non an advocate Of The
extension Of the Right Of Suffrage to citizen, OF Al
rcan descent, unchecked by the anomalous and
sristocratic Property Qualification now required Of
them He has never written one line in opso.itoa
to the Extension of Suffrage in Rhode Island, but
iorcibly in favor OF such change. Yet The SIM
has the bascness to represent, him a terrified
and shrinking enemy Of Free Suffrage,
The Aummcry Of The Sunabout the Royal Char
ter being virtually if not legally dead and gone,
that an army could not restore is authority, &c.
&C. il most atrocious. That Charter j. now in
force simply 5ccause the Dorr party yoted dorm
he lcgaI Constitution. If they had barely re-
Trained from interfering with the action of the
Government after they had declared II legally su-
perscdcd by their own. there would have been RIO
Charter now in existence, but AN essentially trce
Suffrage Constitution in ii, stead But tbs l. just
what they did no, want They wanted the Charter
,odeclaim against. and to aid the lamraHy dema-
gogues in dcccving the Peoplc-and thcy rallied to
the Polls and voted down tie legal Constitution,
thereby pcrpe,uating the Charter. If they had
had any faith in the validity of their own Cons,i-
tuition. they ought not IL have voted the other.
a. that must have been mere waste paper and the
Election TO pass upon it "a farce. By rotiHg pyoH
The adop'ion Of he lcgal Constitution, Hcy
clearly admiHcd that their orn was not legally
established. How this be controversial
Mr.. D>rr's ConstIuoo allows M coored citizen ie ~.
the n ght of Sulfage, dough he pays bali re-
state Taxes. Under TN, Consli nuon Uhe snue as i'-
Charter the Stale may have hundred thousand adDi
male citizens OF good character and Intelligence. yet it
legal voters IN ALL Aud tins j. allied Free Suffrage