The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-07-28
BRITISH BARBARIrlEs in AMERICA!

respectable citizen as lives 10 Rhode Island,
was arrested on Friday; Sanford Ross, snolh-
or democrat, was also arrested!
g While al Chepachet The brave army Of
the charter party, was qlartered in the meeting
house, and amused themselves by breaking
the lamps, destroying the books, cushions AND
Seats Of the church, aud playing cards in the
PeOsT
FsThe Rev Mr.. Wakefield. a worthy and
pious Methodist Minister at Cumberland Hall
formerly Postmaster, there, aud lately deputy
Postmaster, and a democrat, was seized and
dragged to prison on the complaint of George
Cook, federas,, whom Mr.. w. Succeeded
~ the Post Office, and kept there several days.
During his confinement, messenger was de-
spatched to him, Informing him Of the alarm
ing sickness Of child, aud the expectation Of
it's immediate death; yet he was detained in
Jail merely 10 CRAFTY private malice and hnal
ly discharged without particle oI eliminating
evidence being produced in jas u6cation of the
outrage he had experienced,
GJ~An officer walkedup 10 man IN bis
chase in The streets of Providence, turned
him out Oft at the points Of The bayOnets Of a
Fl Of soldiers, took possession the vehici-
Gle and horse. and then sneerlngly ;old The own
er to charge il to the Slate.
G}Sln the interior OF lhs State bands Of
CHARTER boys from sixteen 10 twenty years of
age. armed as Charter troops, seize men al
work in the fields and al the bench, and march
them off to jail as Suffrage prisoners. They
also enter dwelling houses and rob them of
whatever suts heir fancy. We saw a gen.
uAman Saturday who heard ono Of these brave
marauders boastiUg that he had made a pretty
good haul from one fellow, viz, first rate IL
A. and one Of Colts pistols
0FsThs desire Of the Agerines is 10 keep
on Martial Law snlil after the choice of dele
gates 10 The Convention ul der il they can so
Intlmidale the suffrage men as to prevent them
from expressing their opinions, keep a muzzle
upon the liberty presses, and thereby elect
set Of delegates that will frame Constitution
as obnoxious as the charter itself. Bot whelh.-
er they will exercise this stretch of despolisnI
or not, it is uncertain. The leading cIrarter y
men are anxious even 10 perpeuate Martial
Law-they admire it--lhey say it is the best
government they ever had-they can CRAFTY
their anmosllies, old and new, murder, rob,
and steal, under il, with mpunity, and do not
neglect The opportunity. Amongst The 'enor-
mites Of the reign Of King Charles the Fret,
which brought that monarch 10 The block Black
Slone includes the exertion of marital law in
time Of peace That distinguished commen-
tator on lbe laws Of England has these re-
markt: Martial Law, which is built entirely
arbitrary 10 its decisions, is, as Sir Matthew
Hale observes, IN TRUTH AND REALI-
IY NO LAW, but something Indulged, rath-
er than allowed, as law. The necessity of
order and discipline 10 an army is the only
Thing which can give it countenance; and there
fore it ought not to be permitted in lime Of
peace, when the Kings courts are open for all
persons 10 receive justice according " the law
Of The land
GT@Thdt mendacious, craven apoligst and
lick -epite of tyranny The Providence Jour.
nal-affirms that the prisoners have been kind
fy treated One fact stamps this brszen as
ser,ion as vile lie, viz:-lhat six, and some-
times more, men have been Crammed into one
cell, nine fec long aud seven feet wide, in Ju-
y.
G7slt is impossible 10 know. al present,
Que half or one quarter of the vilanoUs enor-
miles and daslardIy cruellies practIsed upon
the down rodden, inhumpnly abused, suffrage
men --bul the positive knowledge that they are
torn from their amilies-despolled of proper
ty-tied like fallons aad marched through
streets for The sport, and 10 receive the insults
Of their cowardly opPressors-C iDlo
the narrow cells ola prison with 90 friend'who
dares 10 raise his voice 10 !hem behalf within
hearing Of the ,yranls who rule the kingdom
is enough 10 make ones blood stand in his
veins While his quivering lips utter prayerto
the just God in Heaven thai His aid 10 The suf
fering will be speedy.
. GJ"I'he only sign Of consciousness we have
discovered on the part of the charter party, is
iD the vebemence with which they deny their
acrs. This proves that they have some sense
Of shsrHe left-that they are no, totally deprav.
ed. Those presses in other States which re
publish these denials manifest by 90 doing
their dread CT the consequences ofthe conduct
they have advocated. But the truth will yet
scar them oil as with a hot iron the light
which the charterisis fuve shut out will, by and
by, penetrate into their State, and The true char
acter Of their deeds be revealed 10 an indig-
nlut Dstion.
The charter party have robbed, stolen, and
murdered violated the soil Of Massachusetts
--pIlasod her inhabitants s-shot down her cit
izens within her o wn boundaries-and yet The
Boston Alias, a Massachusetts, paper, ulters
rot one woIdln Tebuke of all this but euiogs-
ee the atlhoya of ;hcsa c,inoas nornriitad ,,,,