Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-07-22

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mode up Of every description of votes,
legal aud illegal, by proxy 8 otherwise,
taken IN the most irregular aud unauthor-
lZad manner
The DJrr party proceeded to put their
Constitution 10 operation, by electIug
HIN as the Governor ul The St1,e, mem.
Uers 10 the mock Legislature, aGd other
officers. But they dld not STOP turr
they proceeded 10 collect, to Grlil; aud u
marshal a military force, a0d pointed
Their cannon against the Arsenal Of The
STATE.
The President was called upon to 10
terpuse the power Of the Union TO PIE.
sylve the peace f tie State, IN couior-
IniIy wIlh an express pTovIsI II OF the
Federal Cons,lIuli y. Aud | have as
much PIT asGie n Expressing my oplnIou
,hot he ittthtutly performed hts duty, III
responding to that call, MS II gave me pain
10 be obliged 10 anlmiuytrL on other parts
Vi his Conduct.
The leading presses of the Democratic
party at Washington, Albany New York
aud RIchmond, and elsewhere, ZANE
OUT in support Of the Dorr party, encour
aging them IN their wolk Of Rebellion
and Treason. Aud when matters had
got ~ a crisis, and the two parties were
preparing Tor "a Civil War, and every
hour it was expected to blaze out, q great
Tammany meeting was held in tho City
of New York, headed by the leading men
Of tue party, the CambreIlIngs, the Van
dorpCoIs, the Aliens, &c, with a perfect
knowledge that The military power Of The
Uulon was 10 lie employed, if necessary,
to suppress the msuyreCtioD, and, not,
wilhslaudlng, they passed resolutions
tending to " the President, aud 10
connleuaucc and cheer the Treason.
Fortunately, numbers Of the Dorr par
~ abandoned their Chief, he fed, and
Rhode Island, unaided by any actual
force of the Federal authority, proved
herself able to maintain law, ORDER and
government within her borders.
do not attribute TO my Gellow'citizens
here assembled from whom | differ in
opinion, any disposition to ]Countenance
The Revolutionary proceedings in Rhode
Island. | DO not believe That they ap.
prove it. ! do not believe thai their party
generally could approve it, nor some oI
the other examples oil a spirit Of dIsOr-
gaAizaticn which ! have enumerated;
but the misfortune is, 10 time Of high
party excitement, that the leaders com
nit themselves, and finally commit the
body Of their party, who perceive that
unless they stand by and sustain their
leaders. ii division and Perhaps destruc'
ton of The party would be the conSe.
quence. OF all the springs OF human ac,
ton, party ties are perhaps the most pow
erlul. Interest has been supposed to be
more so; but party ties are most intiuen'
lioi unless they are regarded as a motIf
cation of imaginary interest. Under thelt
sway, we have seen not only individual
but hole communities abandon their
long cherished interests and principles
and turn round and oppose them with Vi
u%lence.
Did not the Rebellion in Rhode Island
fiud for lis support a precedent esIab
lished by the majority in Congress, in
the irregular admission Of Territories, as
States, into the Union, to which | have
heretofore alluded? Is there not reason
10 fear thot the example which Congress
had previously presented encouraged The
Rhode Island rebellion?
fl has been attempted 10 defend tha'
Rebellion upon the doctrines Of The
American Declaration Of Independence
but no cOunlenanCe to II can be fairly
derived flom them. That Declaration
asserts, 1t is true, that whenever a Gov
Grnment becomes destructive of the eGd'
of life, liberty and the pursuit of bappl'
ness, for the security Of which il YVES in
stilUted, it is The right Of the People tt
alter or abolish il, and institute new gov
ernment; and 50 undoubtedly it ls. Blu
this is Il right only TO be exercised il
grave and extreme cases. NPrudenct
indeed will dlclate,' says that venerat5C
instrument, 'rhat Governments long es
tabIlshed should not be changed for Ilgh
and transient causes" "But when
long train of abuses and u,urpalions
pursuing invariably the same Object
eviuces a design 10 reduce them unde
absolute despolism, 1t is their right
tbeir.dury, to throw off such Govern
meut."
viii il be pretended that the aCutua
Government Of Rhode is destructive 4
life, liberty, or the pursuit Of happiness
That it ms perpeiraled a long train O
abuses and unsurpations, pursuing III
same invariobIe object, to reduce III
people under absolute d,spoIism2 o
that any other cause Of complaint tXiSte
but such as might 10 peacefully reme
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