Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-06-02

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sincere thanks; and, while the difficulty
Of assembling the company prevented
their arriving in season to appear upon
the field, he acknowledges with pleasure
the evidence which their earliest possible
arrival gives Of their readiness to support
! the laws and authorities Of the State.
The COMMANDMENTS Chief congra,ulates
the several military corps and the citizen
volunteers upon the termination Of these
disturbances, which threatened to obstruc,
the regular execution Of the laws and 10
endanger the peace of the State ; and he
rejoices that this object has been accom-
plished in manner which, while it evipc
ed determination TO maintain, at oil haz-
ards, the supremacy Of the laws, was sig
nalized by exemplary lorbearance towards
those who had been betrayed into vio-
a,ion Of their duty as citizens.
BY order OF His Excellency:
SAMUEL w. KING,
Governor and Commander in Chief.
ELISHA DYER, JR., Adjutant General Of r. I.
Cor, espondenee Of the ". Y. Com. Advertiser.
PRoviDEscE, May 10, 1912.
The plans Of Mr.. Dorr have been more
fully developed since last wrote to you.
have reason to believe them to be as
follows: His first intention was to seize
the arsenal. This would have given him
command Of two thousand stand of arms
and five pieces of artillery. His next step
was to seize the College. This is on a
position overlooking the city, from which
il could have been easily commanded.
He was then to take the market, by which
his troops were to be supplied with provi.
sions. The city was to be laid under con.
,rbu.ion and subjected to martial law.
In this manner, the expenses of this move.
ment would be repaid, and his sympathiz.
ing friends attracted from New York and
other places. Warren, Bristol and New
port we're in succession to be attacked,
and thus the whole State would have been
at his feet. What was next to ensue, |
believe has not yet TRANSFERRED.
This is the cause in which, repeat it.,
your city has sympathized. This is the
cause in favor Of which Mr.. c. c. CAM
BRELENo, Mr.. Alderman PURDy, and Mr.
VANpERPoEL have harangued, and which
men high in rank in New York have TO-
mented and abetied. To crafty the law
less ambition Of man prepared tor such
atrocities, this city was to be delugcd in
blood and given over to pilage. And
our fellow. citizens, men whom heretofore
we have met on terms Of hospitality and
friendship, for the sake of making politi-
cal capital, will not merely look on all
this with Indifference, but give it their
sanction and promise it their assistance.
We are. as Mr.. CAMBRELENe remarks,
but small people, and he very well
knows (for he has eaten Of our bread) not
half as numerous Us the city OF N. York ::
but let me say that, small as we are, we
make bold 10 say to that city, that, acting
upon such principles, nothing can shield
her from the deepest indignation of the
civilized world. We have wives and chill
dren: wo hold honestly earned property,
and we think it foul scorn that our fel-
citizens lin order to promote their pur.
poses Of party) should urge on mob to
murder the one and pllaee the other. a
rabble, urged on by leaders by whom they
have been deceived, we can pardon and
forgive; and the men who keep out Of
danger themselves, and Toll on their So
fas, and smoke their cigars, while they are
encouraging against us most atrocous
treason, we pardon and forgive; but acOrds
cannot tell how utterly zoe despise them.
New York owes US an apology for this
Infamous act, and UNTIL SHE HAS TENDER
ED 1T DARK BLOT RESTS ON HER Es
cUTcHEoN.
And for what reason were we thus to
be subjected to pillage! Because we
were opposed to the wide extension OF SUI
frage1 BY no means. We offered con-
stitu:ion involving as wide an extension
as most of them desired. This they in
dignantly rejected, because II did not in
volve the principle that majority of the
citizens of State has right, without
respect to single existing law or constl.
tuition, at any moment to establish form
of government at will. This We hold to
be the very principle Of revolutionary
France. 1t is the subjugotion of a whole
community TO the most odious Of all des-
potisms, the depoiism Of luwless physical
force. You may submit to such ty-
ranny if you will. For ourselves, we re-
ect and abhor it,. The glory oil true de.
mocracy is, that the power of the whole
is subject to law, and that it always acts
through law. As such we understand It,,
and as such we maintain it.
1t was a glorious spectacle, yesterday,
to see the array Of citizens in favor OF
constitutional law. Men of all classes
and all occupations, the young and the
old, and among them, am happy to say,
many who were members Of the Suffrage
party, but still the decided friends Of law,
we're seen standing shoulder to shoulder
in the ranks. And when they were
marched up to tho mouth Of the insurgents
cannon, and those cannon served by des-
perate and intoxicated men, there was not
a muscle seen to culver or cheek to turn
pale. The companies from Newport,
Warren, and Bristol, were all Of kindred
character. They were men OF whom
Rhode Island has cause TO be proud
Most of them were men in the vigor OF
life, who at moments warning had left
their families, TO contend for the cause oil
constitutional liberty, and who, to man,
would have died in its defence. We owe
them debt Of gratitude which we shall
not easily forget, and which we shall be
nroud. If ever an occasion requires, to re-