Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-07-04
RHoDE-TsLAND DIFFICULTIES.
The Providence Journal Of Saturday morning
Dune 25) announces the following

MILITARY PREPARATIONS.
The militia OF the First, Third, and Fourth
Brigades have been ordered 20 report themselves
at head quarters Immediately. The Newport Ar.
tillery, Bristol Artillery and Warren Artillery ar
rived here last evening" in the steamboat Proyi-
dence, They mustered three hundred and fifty
men, with seven pieces. All The men except
those who work the pieces, are provided with mus
kets, and many of them, we noticed, were armed
with pistols also.
The Sea Fencbes, the Marine Artillery, and
the Second Ward Companies of the City Guard
were out yesterday afternoon. They all looked
admirably, and they are all ready. The Second
ward Volunteers praCtised firing at n target, and
Il number oicapita shots were made. The firing
generally, was excellent
The Providence returned Immediately 10 New.
port to bring up additional men. Several com.
panies arrived here ia the course of the night.
manilesiing promplness beyond all praise.
One company OF sixty men arrived from War
wick, about twelve miles distant, before sunset.
The General Assembly, in session at Newport.
first passed an Act authorizing the Governor and
Council to declare and establish martial law
throughout the State, whenever, in their opinion,
the publib exigency required t-and subsequent
" passed the following Act, DECLARING MARTIAL
LAW THROUGHOUT THE STATE:
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVI-
DENCE PLANTATIONS.
In General assembly, June Session. 1912
AN ACT establishing Martial Law in this s,ate.
BE IL enacted bV The General .4ssembiy as fOlioOs:
Section !. The State ofRhode Island and Prov.
idence Plantations is hereby placed under Martial
Law and the same IN declared to he ia lull force,
until otherwise ordered by the General ASSEMBLY.
suspended Ivy Proclamation of his Exce!enry
The Governor of the State
The General Assembly, in consequence of nu-
merous petitions from peaceable citizens, really
DESTROYS Of change in the form of Government,
have passed an Act to provide for calling Con-
vention OF the People, for the purpose of framing
new Constitution or form Of Government.
An Extra received on Saturday evening, from
the office of the Providence Journal conveys us
tue following Information:
No disturbance occurred last night The latest
accounts from Chepachet represent the force
sembled there at about 700 armed men and 400
without arms; more muskets said to be on
the way. Dorr is said to hovs arrived there at 2
o'clock this morning. The steamboat Massachu-
sets brought up 80 men this morning, from New
port and Middletown.
A company of about so men from Johnston, ar
rived this morning TO get their muskes.
! number of companies are ordered out al
| o'clock, and il is believed that the whole force in
the city will be under arms at that hour 1t is not
known whether they are ordered out for review,
or for immediate service, we presume the former.
The fourth Brigade Of Militia will arrive this e.
vening.
From all parts of the State except the dsnffec-
ted portions of Providence county, the people are
hocking in tn maintain The government, OF their.
own free choice. The crisis is Immediately at
hand, and the men who are now ralyng larouDd
the government will not be dlsbanded until the
question is settled.
The men around Dorr at Chepachet, care moth
ing for suffrage; they are for plumber aud rapine.
There is no eXaegeraton in this language; they
are band of fierce, blood thirsty ruliians, caring
nothing for the institutions of the State, and, gen.
| nntl, ann hpt mo
only for commotion and civil war.
The politicians in New York, who got up the
Park meeting; The demagogues throughout the
Union, who endeavored to make this little State
the small change of political parties; the editors
of newspapers who have extended their sympa-
thy and urged on the brutal ruffans embod-
led against the laws of The State, are responsible
for all this We have no fear Of the result. Our
only regret ia that honest blood should flow that
the gallant yeomanry of the State must be pitted
against the traorous ruffians who oppose them.
The following further proceedings have taken
place in the General Assembly:
An act appointing special Commssiary General
and Surgeon General, was sent down from the
Senate and corcurred in.
An act authorizing the Adjutant General and.
Quar,ermaser General to appoint assistants :.
Sent down from the Senate and concurred in.
Resolutions offering amnesty to offenders a.
gainst the act in relation 10 offences against the
sovereign power of this State.
The following is the resolution:
ReSOlred, That all such persons as have CON-
mitted offences against the provisions Of the ACT
of March last, entitled - An act in relation to Of
fences against the sovereign power of this State, -
shall be exempted from all the pains, penalties
and punishments provided for by said act, upon
filing in the office of the Secretary OF SlaIe with
in ten days from the passage hereof, declaration
in writing, by Them subscribed in the presence of
a subscribing witness, of their intention TO- bear
rue allegiance to this State, and TO support the
laws of this General Assembly, and shall distinct
y therein renounce all allegiance to any preten-
ded constitution or form of government OF this
State Provided hoicerer, and this acl of amnesty
is upon the express condition thar the person or
persons subscribing such declaration, remain trne
and faithful TO his their allegiance to this State,
from and after the time Of filing of such declara-
ton.
This was presented by Mr.. Whpple, and laid
on the table, with an order TO print 100 copies
The Assembly then adjourned to Monday, al l
O'Clock. The Governor or the presiding officers
of the two Houses were authorized to call the
Assembly together sooner, il necessary.
The resolution of amnesty, it will be noticed, re-
Iutes only offences against lhe particular act in,
dictated. Offences against the common law OF
treason, &c. are not included. The resolution
was laid on The table. We do hot know what are
the probabilities of its passage.
The Saturday Evening Chronicle, under The
head of " Events of the Day." says
" 1t is impossible to convey TO the distant read
er the precise state of affairs to-day, and what
course things may take before night. All is ex-
element, still, the authorities are moving with en-
ergy and decision, and system seems TO pervade
all their movements. The community place full
reliance in the skill aud wisdom of those 10 whom
are entrusted the management of the arduous and
responsible duties now devolving upon them"
1t speaks of the marlialing Of various military
companies, aud says;
; "All of these companies, including those be-
longing TO this city, will I've mustered into service
this day, and pass review. They are composed
of all casses-lrom the daily laborer to the pro-
iessiona man comprising the rirtue and inteili'
gence OF the State Ii is idle TO assert ihat these
r men have n desire TO Withhold from the people
their rights. They are The people themselves The
= class Of people against whom our citizens have
i rallied, are composed of different material
i They are principally foreign mercenaries, and we