Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-10-21

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Huntsville Journal.
RHODE ISLAND-WHO ARE TEE
REAL FRIENDS OF SUFFRAGE
We ask every intelligent voter Of Mas,
sachuselts, who is wiling fairly and
Justly to consider the SUI ct, to watch
with attention and diligence the 'ortu-
Gus, treachrrous and uopriucipIed fac
ious course Of the leaders olthe Loco'o'
co party, more especially tb9se q his
Stale, in reference 10 the recent Difficult
ties in Rhode Island. While all their
professions, their idle, empty unmeaning
clamor, their pretended but unreal Ia
for universal sufi age, are intended solely
for I%acIlous and party purposes. without
any desire or expectation Of ~ext-ndlng
he right Of sufrsge-ull their ac's both
past aud present, show concIus!veiy their
hvpocracy and InsiDcerity. All their
acfs must show 10 every candle mind that
they have 40 other wish than II keep
The suo iect open, as an agIIatlng source
Of pariy capital. Thus far these preIen.
ded friends Of srF age have themselves
bcen the principal means Of keeping
from the disfranchised citizens Of Rhode
Island the privilege Of voting, The time
ls not immemorial, when he party now
pretending TO he so eager in the cause OF
suffrage. had the entire aeCendency in
Rhole island. When, in 1886, Martin
Van Buren, obtained the vote Of thai
i STATE, and the Loco.oco party had en-.
tire ronrrol-the Governor, an unanl-
nous Locofoco Sen te, and a majority
in the House-who then heard a word
ID favor uf,he extension of suffrage. from
these new hpdged champions Of The rights
If man! When a liberal, fair and right.
full constitution was offered, not SIX
months since TO the people OF Rhode
, Island, by legal Convention, who then
} prevented It's adoption? Who then re-
! ;arded and prevented, for an indefinite
! period, this very right Of suf age which
= these braz'n faced hypocrlles pretend
10 favor? The answer is unneces-
! sary.
; These very men who would make the
people believe il they could, that they
IRE the exclusive friends Of suffrage
= these very men turned the scale against
he extension Of the right Of suffrage,
\ and for The time defeated II. Even now.
while the real triends Of suffrage are once
Il more showing their sincerity aUd homes
: ty Of purpose, by attempting anew t.
1t give the people OF Rhode Island a JUS
and equitable Constitution, who Is i
that is throwing every possible obstacle
in their way, ard dong all they can by
every meaNs Of The most d~lsIeputable. t.
e prevent success in this laudahie undelta
II king? These same LocoIoco leaders
who, if YOU would believe their probes.
r. SONS and their hollow claims, are tn
exclusive aud the only friends OF tn
= night of suffrage, the rights Of man, DC
D. Witness their attempts to prevent am
= extension Of tho right Of suffrage, by op
posing every other, except one the,
Is know cannot be adopled-a %lraudulen
8 and infamous conspiracy OF UnprInclpIe
and designing men, to thrust lhem
selves into power against The We es
the Eeuple o Ehodo Island, they kno'
n taal the 50 STYLED Constitution, unde
70 which the craven and would-he-muroe
= er D0rr, went through the farce OF 40 e
W ec,Ion, is Of ITSELF II fraud, and can new
VI er be adopted by a majority Of the peopI
y Of Rhode Island. In lurlherance OF the
'" desire to keep lhls question open We Sc
" them using the very means which The
~ know is the only one by which they ca
It" hope to defeat and prevent the otJe'
W they profess to desire. They oppo'
VI and do all they can to prevent me AGO
", ton Of any constitution except II onI,
~ which they know also can never be ado
~ ted, and which they do not urge vi
any hope Of It's adoption, bot with a SO
view to political capltal.-AIlas.