Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-10-07
RHODE lSLAND-WHO ARE THE
REAL FRIENDS DE SUFFRAGE.

We ask every intelligent voter in MasacLu-
sets, who is willing fairly and Justly 10 consd.
er the subject, to watch with attention and dill.
gence the toruous, treacherous and unprinci.
pied iactou3 course of the leaders Of the Io.
coioco party, more especially those Of this state.
IN reference to the recent difficulties in Rhode
Island. While all their professions, their die,
empty ana unmeanng cIamor, their pretended
out unreal zeal for universal suffiane, are in.
tended solely for facious and party purposes.
without any desire or expectation of extending
the right OF suttrage-al their acts both nas,
and present, show conclusively their hvpocrsy
an! insnceriiy. All their acts must show 70
every candid mind that thoy had No oibor wish
than to keep The subject open, as an agitatinm
source of party capital Thus far. thosc nrc.
tended friends of suffrage have themselves
been the principal means Of keeping from The
DISTINGUISHED citizens Of Rhode Island the privi-
'ege Of voting. The time is not immemoral,
when the party now pretending TO be so eager
in the cause of sutfage, had the entire ascen-
dency IN Rhode Island. When, in 1895, Mar
tin Van Buren, Obtained the vote of that State,
and the l.ocooco party had the entire control
The Governor, an unanimous Locofoco Senate,
and majority in the House-who then heard
a word IN favor of the right Of suffrage, from
'hesa new .ledged champions of the rights Of
man! When liberal, fair and righ,ful consti-
tuition was offered. no. six months ago, TO the
people Of Rhode Island, By legal Convention,
who then prevented It's adoption, Who then
retarded and prevented, for an indefinite period,
this very right of suffrage which these hrazen-
| faced hypacrtes pretend to favor! The an
swer is unnecessary. These very men who
| would make the people believe, if they could,
| that they are the exclusive friends Of suffrage
! these very men turned the scale against the
| -.,e -, NJ .ha rir,. 6 II
time defeated il. Even now, while the real
friends Of suffrage are one, more showing their
sincerity and honesty Of purpose. by attempt
ing anew to give the people Of Rhode Island a
just and equitable constitution, who is throwing
every possible obstacle in their Wav. and doing
all they can, by every means the most disrepnt-
| able, 10 prevent success in this laudlble under
taking These same Locofoco leaders. who, if
! you would believe their professions and their
| hollow claims, arc the exclusive and only
friends of the right of suffrage, the rights of
man, &c. Witness their condemnation and
! denunclatlons, in advance of any KNOWLEDGE of
the Constitution to be proposed by the Cnnven
ton of the real friends of suffrage at Newport.
| " lthess their attempts to prevent any extension
OF the right Of suffrage, by opposing every 9th.
er, except one they know cannot be adop, ed-a
fraudulent and infamous conspiracy of unprinci
| pied and designing men, to thrust themselves
mo power against 'he WISHES OF the people of
hhoae Island lhey know full well that the
so s'yled constitution under which the craven
ana "oGId oc-murderer Dorr, went through the
farce Of an election Is OF itself fraud, and
can never 9e aoopleo, as II never has been, by a
n,g1l,! y, tIe cnIzehs oil Rhode Island, In
,inr IN VI .,t'' uesre 10 Keep ms ques-
ton, we see Them with professions of desire
4
lor we eH'e'Is'oh OF suHfa@e' using the very
m ea''s we! n""w 's inc only one by which
,hoy aa,i "ope anu prevent Inc oh]ecl
.h hay p.o'os' W ues.e ney oppose and do all
t",ion ,@ W pierem u ADOPTION OF any consll-
80 one my "hlch they know al
mroe ,n, J@n Nc huopeI, ana whIch they do not