Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-09-30
RHODE ISLAND-WHO ARE THE REM
ERIENlS OLE SuEERAGE.

FRIENDS OF SUFFRAGE.
We ask every intelligent voter in NJ massachusetts,,
who is willing fairly mud justly to consider the sub
ject TO watch with attention and diligence the
tuous, ireacherous and unprnCipledly hctlous
course Of the leaders of the Locofoco party, more
especially those of this slate, ia reference to the
recent difficulties in Rhode Island. While all
their professions, their idle, empty and unmean-
ing clamor, their pretended but unreal zeal for IL
niversa suffrage, are intended solely for lactlous
and party purposes, without any desire or expec-
tHton of extending the right of sufIruge-all their
acts both pust and present, slow concluslvcly
their hypocrisy aud rsircerity. All their acts
must show to every candid mind that they had no
other wish Than to keep the subject optn, as an
ngltating source Of party capital Thus far, these
pretended friends Of s,lffnge hayo themselves
been The principal means of keeping from the dis
rancbised citizens of Rhode Island the privilege
OF voting The time is not immemoriu, when
the party now pretending to he eager in the
cause of suffrage, had the entire nsceDdency in
Rhode Island. When, in 1886, Martin Van Blu,
rem Obtained the vote of that State, aud the Loco
ioco parry had the entire cOntrol-the Governor,
an unanimous I.ocofOco Senate, and minority III
the House-who then heard a word in favor of the
extension of the right OF suffrage, from lhsse new
hedged champions of the rights of man? When
liberal fair aud rightiu' constitution WIS offered,
not six months sluc0 to the people OF Rhode Is
land, 10y n legal Convention, who then prevented
uuOINIOnE VINO men reHrueu anu pTcVeHWu,
for MI indefinite period, this very right OF suffrage
which llese brazen-faced hypocrites pretend to
favor? The answers unnecessary. These very
mcn. who would make the people believe, u they
could, that they the exclusive friends of suff
rage these very men turned The scale against tho
extension Of the right OF suffrage, and, Tor the
time, defeated il. Even now, while Tie real friends
Of suffrage are once more showint their sincerity
and honesty OF purpose, 10y attempting anew to
give the people of Rhode Islnnd jus: aud equ-
table constitution, who is throwing every pos
sible obstacle in their way and doing all they can,
10y every means the most disrepulable, TO prevent
success in this landable undertaking? These
same Locof0co leaders, who, II you would believe
their professions and their hollow claims are the
exclusive and only friends of HE right OF suffrage,
the rights Of man. &c Witness their condem-
nation and denunciations, in advance OF any
knowledge Of the Constitution to he proposed by
the Convention of the real friends OF suffrage at
Newport. Witness their attempts to prevent any
extension OF the right ofsufirage, by opposing ev-
cry other, except one they know cannot be adopt
ed "a fraudulent and infamous conspiracy OF un-
princpled and designing men, 10 thrust thenlsel-
yes into power against the wishes of the people OF
Rhode Island They know full well TINT the so
styled constitution, under which the craven and
would murderer Dorr, went through the farce
OF an election, is Of itself fraud and can never
be adopted as it never has been 10y n majority of
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wv" "es'o ~ ne.P 'n'' l'os''o" sun upe"' anu
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nI wv! o'e w ".'on 'loy Gu" nop' W , ir,
"i,'I pie'en 'ne .ey p!o'ess 10 nesre lhey
.lI a.'" Nv ~" ..'oy van W l"e'o" VIC """l
,,'a " a,y oVnS.uu.,o" eHIeP,s on1 ony' wnicn
,toy n"o" ''oo ~ N"' u' u'"p'9'! """ ""'e"
t,' ,' %V "o' WIN a"E n"Po VI We "'oP''o"'
't Nv "''I eo'o ,'o" w 'o',''u oap,.a'
c', y" '''e o''c' manu-, 'iIc s''csrty "'lr h""es
y VI purpose VI 'he 'eai irIenus Oh suffrage, Is
p o~" ,ess oy ne' PROFESSIONS ,nan py 'ner acts
,'ins ,ho, Uri"ie" W vIo'e"ce ".oo"sneu "nn ra
,nc,on Ionofoc; s .n q n,a W." opsuo'es "n'cn
uocsd in ,ho;r ,va~ rar'o,or;ne,v sn.'e.n.a a", ,
rr;vo - ,ha ia,t RLoIa ,.nfnnd inv, n,i '"
SSnh,o conS,,,,,,;o rho,' haan I %""
hv ,Io ayc,,,s;,a ~, e.. 49,, ,,'i,;.t .a,,
inp TO lie in its favor. Is The drec, means Of nre.
ven,iny ito adonton w, if I'VE ore m heI;eve Tho
clamor of The i.ocof,co nortv ,bev are tho only
friends of suffraon and The Who's vre ;,s nnrelen.
Ting enemies Nv their acts onIv NAV we know
who ARE the real and who he nreren1ed friends
OF lie extension Of suffrage The Locolocos,
when ~ power made no ohort Wh"tever 10 give
m'" '1'"" e"ns'" '.',' ms
The ripIt of sunrnce IN nil American cit,zens'
which the Locofocos rejected by their rotes. Tho
Wings h"ve asSln attempted, "y 'esaI ineals 10
see The en,;re ,ve;,h, oc ocn,nco;sn 1hrown inn