The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-29

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ItisnoW wen understood that the distur.
Dances Ia Rhode Island are nothing more
nor lese than desperate and reasonable er.
forts, on the part OF Dor and his followers.
. oysrturn Tie government of that state,
and established issrnins either government
Of locofocoism, abolitionism, o. something
else which ID not vet well known.
The rightof suffrage, Il is not pretended,
j. the cause IN anyWise Of sho qusrrel.-
There il no party IN Rhode Islsnd n favour
Of the old Charter, nor has there been for
many years. There Is no material Inference
between she Two parties. e 10 shs propriesy
Of extending the righ. Of suffrage. This Is
abu dainty shownsby protest made against
the Dofrises BY Dutse ]. Pssrce. Robert p.
Carr, Daniel Brown, Geo. 9. Shaw, Sanford
ell and BENZ. Chace, leading nenlbers Of
the IocoIoco party. made and published on
she 24sh Of June. And yet n she face Of
these known and admitted facts, the Legis-
tature Of New Hampshire took il upon them.
selves 70 pass the following resolutions
This is lOcofocoisn Up % the handle. We
give Ihe facts, add leave every man to com.
ment for himself:
ResoEted, That according TO the :heory Of
. the American system Of politics, the sove.
lreign powerof asiaie Is vested ia the people.
who have tile right 70 alter, amend, or re.
lconstruct their forms Of government, when.
i Iever and In such manner as they choose.
there being no rightfnl human authority a.
bole them 70 judge Of their acts or to control
their will.
ResOIUed, That the people of Rhode Island
! in their late aitempt % reform their govern.
! ment IL the establishment Of a free cOnstitu.
!. :ion, exercised the right Of sovereignty legi-
ltimately: that the constitution they framed
! and the government they established is the
y Legitimate consultation and government of
i that state, and that the act Of the people Of
that state b. which they framed q new con-
! stitution and government, abFogated and an.
nulled the old charter Of King Charles the
e End, and rendered all acts done under said
!, char,er void and of no effect.
b ResoIUed, That neither the general govern.
ment nor any Of its de parlments have a right
> tojnterfere in any political controversy be.
tween different portions Of the people OF 4
e state in which the question Of sovereignty il
q ia issue and that John Tyler, the acting
!. President Of the United StaIes, BY interfering
! Win duu urS4uAu6 ZIG 4 uSstl04A VI sovereign
I ~ pending between the two parties in Rhode
Island hae been guilty Of 4 wanfon & fagran
n act Of usurpaiion, for which he deserves i'm
peachment and expulsion from office.
: ResoIVed, That in the name Of the demo
ID lcracy of New Hampshire, We tender the con
7. stitutonaIists Of Rhode Island our sympath
a and encouragement. and we coniure Their
never 20 snFrende r cause so just and sacred
= involving, as we believe, the great funds
'e mental principles OF American liberty bI
" .exhort them % persevere in all proper mean
a. toTecover theirTight and if an appeal be ne
cessary, in the last resort, TO the God of Jus
= tice, we trnst their hearts win be nerved
er meet the crisis with the frmness andinuep
e, dity Of men resolved to perish OF be free. Re
,as Numbering that thrice is he armed who ha
4 his quarrel just and that friends will rise u
on every side % succour the oppressed.