Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-04-28

currence with the views expressed 10 tht
Presidents letter.
Governor King has issued his Procla
nation with the Presidents letter annex.
ed, admonshing the people Of Rhode Is
land to read it and govern themselves ac'
cordlngly. This viii PROFESSIONALLY put
at rest all apprehensons of violence.
LETTER OF PRESIDENT TYLER.
TO his Ercellency the
Governor Of X. Island:
SIR: Your letter OF the 4th inst, was
handed me on Friday, by MIR. Whipple,
who, in company with Mr.. Francis and
Mr.. Potter, called upon me on Saturday,
and placed me, both verbally ard in writ
ing, in possession of the prominent facts
which have led to the present unhappy
condition of things 10 Rhode Island, "a
state of things which every lover ofPeace
and good order must deplore. ! shall not
adventure the expression of an opinion up
on those questions Of domestic policy,
which seem to have given rise to the un.
fortunate controversies between a portion
Of the citizens and the existing Govern
nrnt of the State. They are questions OF
Municipal regulation, and the adjustment
of which belong exclusively 10 the people
Of Rhode Island, and with which this gov
ernment can have nothing to do. For
the regulation Of my conduct, in any in
terposilon which may be called upon to
make, between the Government ola State
and any portion of its citizens who may
assail It with domestic violence, or may
be IN actual insurrectlon against IT, can
only look to the Constitution and Laws OF
the United States, which plainly declare
the obligations of the Executive Depart
ment, and leave it no alternative as to the
course it shall pursue.
By the 4th section Of the 4th article Of
the Constitution Of the United States, It is
provided that the United States shall
guarantee TO every State in this Union a
Republican form Of Cow rnment, and shall
protect each of them against Invasion !;
and on the application Of the Legislature,
or Executive, (when the l. gislature can
not be couven, d, against domestic rio-
lcnce. And by the Act Of Congress APP
proved on the 2lst February, 1905, it is
declarcd-ihat in cese oil an insurrectlon
in any State against The Government there.
OF, it shall be lawful for the President OF
the United States, upon application of the
Legislature OF such State, or Of the Exec
ulive, (when the Legislature cannot be
convened) TO call forth such number Of
the mil tia of any othar State or States as
may be applied for, or as be may judge
sufficient to suppress such Insurrection.-
! BY the Sd section of the same act, II is
provided that whenever II may be neces-
sary in the Judgment OF the President to
use the military force hereby directed TO
be called forth, tho President shall forth.
with by proclamation, command such IN.
surgents to dispense and retire peaceably
to their respective abodes within reason
abb. time.
BY the act Of March 3, 1907, it is pro
vidcd "that in all cases of lnsurrectlon or
obstruction to the laws either Of the Unit
ed States, or any individual State or Ter
ritory, where it is lawful for the President
of the United States to call forth the mi
Iitia for the purpose of suppresslng such
| resurrection, or of causiug the laws to be
duly exercised, il shall be lawful for him
TO employ for the same purposes, such part
of the land or naval force of the United
States as shall be judged necessary, hav-
ing first observed all the prerequisites OF
the law in that respect.
This is the first occasion, so far as the
! Government OF State and It's people are
concerned, on which il has become neces.
sary TO consider of the propriety OF exer'
cising these high and most important con-
stitulional and legal functions. BY u
careful consideration of the above recited
acts of Congress, your Executive will no,
fail to see that no power is invested IN The
Executive of the United States to anticl-
pate insurrectlonary movements against
the Government OF Rhode Island, so as to
sanction the int rpositon of the military
authority, but that there must be actual
Iinsurrection manifested by lawless assem-
blages of the People or otherwise, to whom
a proclamation may be addressed, and
who may be required to betake themselves
to their respective abodes. | have, how.
ever, to assure your Executive that, should
the time arrive, and my forvent prayer IS
that il may never come, when an lnsufrec
ton shal exist against the Government %
Rhode Island, and requisltlon shali DC
made upon the Executive oil Inc oh,'eu
States 10 furnish that protection which IS
Guaranteed to each State by the Cons'ltu-
Ion and lava | shall not be found to
shrink from the performance o. du,y'
which, while it would be the most painful
liz AZ the same time the most Imperative.
have also to say that in such con-
ltingency, the Executive could not look
mic real or supposed defects Of the exist
ling Government to ascertain whether
some other plan Of Government proposed
for adoption was better suited to the wants
and more in accordance with the wishes
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