New-York daily tribune., 1843-08-02
THE TRIBUN NE.

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ma. For More about John Randolph see Last rage
rn, Right of Suffrage and the Albany
Argus.
r .,,.,,, A ,o,,s. on the Goth ult., announced
with exutaton the success OF the movement ~
ron;siana for Convention to amend 'ne 'o'''0
ro,s,;,ution. and proceeded TO turn It To account
as party capital TO effect this purpose 1t lnaoc
the following assertions:
That we feel proud Of tins victory because q az O
lone, 10 the Democratic pcriy
This we haveproved untrue, by SIMPLE reference
% the ind;sputable Election Returns. New-Or-
Ieans-a Wing City, and none but ttce'hoders
voting-has given almost two to one tor Con
ysntion so of St. Mary and the Wing Parishes
generally. Two successive Wing Legislatures
have forwarded the Convention.
Q "}yhr Executives and Wing Lcgsa,u IS have mould
ed the Politics Of the STATE almost from It's infancy
Is not thus also untrue? Who does not know
that Louisiana was Democratic as 1crrtory
that her Constitution was formed by Democrats
under thoroughly Democratic auspices and
that the State continued to be what is called DC
1nocratic down at least to 1923 that the Legis
!aturc has often since been Argus Democratic and
elected Democratic Senators 2-and that 1t al
ways voted for what the Argus claims as the De
1nocratc' President from 1912 down to lo4o2
The Argus cannot deny any part OF this, yet per
ssts in its assertion
g. may be observe, (says the hIgus) that
IN. two States of Rhode Island and Louisiana have been He
most steadily unde Wing Sway much so, as to oe con-
sidered almost inheritance Of the Wing party
Is not this another indisputablc mistake ? Can
louisiana which has three times voted for Jack
son and once for Van Buren, beside electng three
Jackson L. S. Senators, be considered more
steudy Wing State than VERMONT, MAssAonu.
sErrs, or DELAWARE which never voted iorethel
of them, or elected Jackson Senator Need We
waste words upon this point
But the Argus of Monday abandons Louisiana
and rallies upon Rhode Island 1t admits that
Rhode Island went anti-Whig in 1888, but re-
volvcd again in the Panic Of 1894, when the
Wing party swept the State Tins is not true
Gov. Francis (V b. aud Van Buren Lcgisa-
turc were chosen in April, and Dutce J. Pcarce
and colleague were elected to Congress over IRIS
tam Burgess and II. Y. Cranston in the desperate
contest of August In 1885, Francis (V. b.
was reelected Governor, but bare majority of
the Legislature was Wing. In '36, the State
was Van Buren, in all three elections and IN every
Department. casting It's vote for Van Burcn. In
April, 1887, it again elected Van Buren, Gov
ernor and Legislature; but, after the Financial
blow.up of that year, the State went Whlg IN
August. Thus FOR four years successfully Van
Buren, Governor was chosen, with five or SIX Van
Buren, Legislature, yet nothing was done through
out toward the Extension of Suffrage. Will the
Argus tell us why
T. "Bu says the Argus so soon the Democratic tide
rolls the old eudal batemcuts gradually sapp.I and
undermined until they toter down TO the dust
We have already seen that this is not true with
regard to either Louisiana or Rhode Island in
each of which the movement toward a legal Ex-
tension of Suffrage has been made through Wing
Legislatures, while under undivided Wing sway,
and directly after the most overwhelming Whig
victory In each the impulse toward an t,xten-
sion OF Suffrage was clearly given By the Wing
canvass of 1910.
But will not the Argus tell US why this f" Dem
ocratc tide which has so long "rolled m' TO
VIRGINIA, has never sapped and mined the Ola
feudal battlements" of that State Here is a
case directly III pont-a State which was the
mother of party Democracy, and which has al
ways been It's standard rd-bearcr--whlch has acrci'
voted for President otherwise than as the Argus
pronounces Democratic, and which yet, alter a
recen, revision of her Constitution, authorizes the
PROPERTY Holder TO rotc IN eeery County ,chere
he ocns Property and does not allolc tie Poor
Man to cote at all! Mr.. Argus stand up 70 the
rack. Time and again we have put this case
In your eye, and yet you pass 1t IN utter, guilty
silence. Why not meet 1t somehow !-Ion can
certainly say something about it Must we call
upon the Evening Journal to help make you
see it For shame, now come out of your
hiding place. and tell us how the history and atti-
tude of Virginia are to be reconclled with your
sweeping rigmaroc about Democratic tide
feudal battlements,' &C.
The Argus does not wonder that The Tri-
bune g should affect to deny any relationship with
the Government OF Rhode Island"-that we
should be anxious to cut the Wing party clear
of Rhode Island, &c. sc. Neighbor, YOU should
clear up your old untruths before ins'uuatng any
now ones We have never done what you have
indirectly charged upon us. Every reader knows
how earnestly and fully we have approved an'
sustained the cause of the Law and Order party
in Rhode Island. But right well do yoH know
that it is not peculiarly the Wing party, but that
the present Law and Order Governor OF Rhode
Island is u Democrat OF the days and school o.