New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-18

The meeting ia the Park lat evening to sustain
the Dorr Government in Rhode Island Wa quite
l.rgc-we should say j, numbered four to TX thou
ssnd large majority OF those IN attendant
were honest and worthy citizens, whose .ing lie plf-
pose was to sustain and vindicaie the principle 10.
Free Suffrage, which they have been led to beiiey,
involved IN tho triumph Of Mr.. Dor.
Bu, ,he authors and wire-puller' Of TINS meoiin:
had far different objects. First among them Wa
70 distract public attention. especially that OF tAe
homes, men who sustain them, from the mon-trou~
fraud and wrong they are now perpctrating ir
uslrping the City Government after the Poop
have fairly committed i, TO other hands; secondly.
to head Off their party from the supper, OF Pre-
dent Tyler who by h;s Bank Veto ani-Di,tribu-
tion Message &c. has established a claim their
affections from which some of the managers begin
to apprchcnd they cannot be wls'lcd of at vii.
The Rhode Island trouble, are therefore seized H.
a prctcst, and upon ii the thunders of Iammai>
are launched at the head Of John Tyler. Vcr,
mach ofthc Park oratory yesterday was leyeled a
his course.
Now we are in no sense the champion or rpoIo-
sist of John Tyler; but we cannot see how in thie
matter he could have done otherwise than hc has
without the gros-e.t dcreIciion from duiy--'hc
most fragrant violation of his oath. Rhode Island
ha, called upon him through her recognized ou-
ihorties for protection from intestine violence b.
there run be a case in which the Constitution
guaranty on this heal is 10 b. fulfilled, j. not til,
such "A ono The fact that the usurgection j.,
formidable ono gives urgency and force Ia the re-
QUESTION. IT the Federal Government j. not com.
PEELED to act in this case, it cannot be in any. ard
every controversy arising in State must De-
fought ont with butchery and couhagration. l.
was precisely to prevent such a result that tie
Federal Government took upon itself the duty o'
preserving order and peace in every State and in-
tcrdicled zach frem keeping armies If the doc
trncs promulgated yesterday in the Park ar,
sound, Government resolves Itself with into
rrepondcrance of physical force and the Stat,
must again resort to separate ornaments and
troops 70 maintain their authority and execute
their laws
A. to the miserable slang OF such demagogic-
as Elv Moore about King Charles Charter
when directed against those who have done thcii
utmost to superscdc that Charter by liberal Coz
stitu,ion, aud been defeated in their strenuous {,
forts by the very men who cry out agaIn>, tho
Charter, there Is bGfcfaced dishonesty in til
clamor which Is Just les. than swndrg. II Mr.
Dorr's Legislature had passed an act establi,hir-
Slavery in the State, and then drummed up an ar
my in Ncw-lork to 90 and put it down, their con
duct would have been quite a. manly as in now
making an outcry against the defects of the Charter
Enough Of this. 1t is within the power of Nj.
Dor and his supporters to have a liberal and good
Constitution established forthwith in Rhode Island
ii they wH-just rs they would have had one lorg
since ii they had simply abstained from voting 81
down. But for that act Mr. Durr might ere TIL
have been the legal and rightful Governor of Rhod'
Island. He and his friend, have chosen diiierei
course, which. though it cannot prevent the ul,-
mate establishment of Popular Constitution ir
that State. may greatly impede and esnbarnss it
The Government party have offered liberal if mo-
perfect Constitution in precisely the form and man
ncr in which the Right of Suffrage in other State.
has been gradually extended the other side say.
We will not merely have what wish. bui ~
will take it in defiance Of YOU, or not have 1t at all
In this spirit and purpose Tammany Hall inter
ieres to encourage and stimulate them; and if tie
consequence be bloodshed and devastation by fra
trcidal hands-if CORY Murder shall stalk grimlH
over the now smiling fields of Rhode Island hold
ing H. either hand the torch and the dasscr-ii th,
screams of the irenzed wife and mother over III,
bodies Of those most dear shall rise on the breeze
which bears the smoke Of her burning dwelling iu1
o,cr sea and land-thc guilt and the Condemn
ton will rest heavily on hsr souls VIII, at tn,
distance have rccklessy stirred up the fires ol
wholly needless scdiion and warfare to sub,cr,,
their own party advantage and .oldid lu,, OF
power.
u MR. NARsHALL's ADDRESS before the