New-York daily tribune., 1843-07-24
he Declaration Of Independence, and thence pro-

aud yshzr, IS the recrean, that vii pute them follows
necessarily that the people and not the government ere @
sole and proper judges the the mode and tae eA
;sut 20 which govepmeut may be changed or nodihed.
Stripped Of their yerbiage, the propositions mere
advanced by the Orator are these: l. Those IN
any community who are dissatisfied with the e.-
sting Constitution are under no necessity OF re-
sorting to the forms of Law to overthrow 1t
They are g the sole and prope. Judges as TO the
time, the mode and the extent OF the change
they may see fit TO compass SO tar from beng
obliged to procure the assent oi majority OF the
Legal Voters to Their substitute, they may dis
pense with voting altogether, and take the sense
of the People in town meetings or BY obtaining
their signatures to petitions. :. They may deter
mine who are and who arc not the People, as
shall best suit their purposes, and thence how
many constitute 4 majority of that People 3.
That, choosing their own mode and time
and extent they may determine at their own
discretion that the change they demand is or Is
not adopted by the People, All this is sub
stantially asserted by Mr.. Moore; all this re-
duced TO practice by his Rhode Island compatr-
OTIS, They declared by the vote of an utterly lie
gal and unauthorized junto what portion (ess
than one fourth of the 100000 inhabitants Of
Rhode Island constituted the People OF that
State, of whom ma lority' were TO be obtained;
they in like manner framed a Constitution, ap-
pointed officers 20 hold Elections fixed the days
in which the People should vote on their lnstru-
,ncnt, and more days in which votes might be
BROUGHT in from those who had to &c dogged
through their houses and wc:-,Esbops ard persua.
ded to vote, and at last, bv similar no.author,y,
counted nnrp the votes and declared that a ma
jonly' of lhe People had adopted their Const-
tuition.
We will not pursue further these doctrines which
Mr. Moore insults the Declaration of Independ-
encc by fatherng thereupon but We entreat the
profound attention Of the sober rejecting citizens
Of this Country-the lovers OF real Liberty, guard
cd BY Law-to the inevitable consequences of
| such incuications. Incessant convulsion, eternal
anarchy, inevitable collision ana carnage, are
among them. Establish MIR. Moore's principles,
and each State would soon have three or four
Constitutions, each claimed by It's supporters to be
!
by them. Nay; let the partisans cf each who
are constituted the sole Judges o the legality OF
their own proceedings) but choose respectively
their OWE time and mode of obtaining rati-
fcation, and they might very probably procure
the assent Of a majority to two conflicting IN
struments. The facility with which most men
sign memorials is proverbial; and one thousand
demagogues, hating work and loving Office like
some now in our minds eye, would rarely have
much dithcnlty III procuring the assent of what
they Would pronounce majority OF the Peo-
! pie to their innovation. Once cut loose from
existing Constitutions, and establish that they
may be superseded as Mr. Moore prescribes, and
we should soon be under full headway toward
Rclgn OF Terror like that of France, wherein
few thousand ruttians in the name Of Liberty,
Equality, and the People held Thirty Millions
III abJect fright and subsection, imprisoning myri-
ads in the name of Liberty, and massacrcing
thousands on thousands in pretended zeal for Uni
versal Philanthropy and the Rights of Man. He
who set up the People as something different
from and opposite to that collected deliberate VIII
which is spoken through the Constitution and
Laws Is treadlng virtually in the footsteps of Ro-
besperre and harat, and should take warning by
their fate and their undying infamy. o Lber-
tsn said the noble and blamcess Madame Roland
on her way to the recking guillotine so profusely
fed with Virtue and Truth by these champions of
the People" Oh Liberty! what crimes are
committed in thy name
IMroRrANr SLAVE CAsEs.-A case of harbor-
ing and conccaling runaway slaves, was tried at
the July term Of the U. $. Circuit Court, District
of Ohio, Judge Mclean presiding, which, after
considerable delay incidental to the receiving OF
testimony, was concluded on the 18th inst 1t
appeared in evidence that on Sunday morning,
the 2lth of April, 1873 a wagon. driven by a
: negro boy, was noticed going through Sharon
vlllc IN Hamilton county, az. very rapid rate
Suspicion was excited, and some persons started
in pursuit on horseback. The wagon was over.
taken and found 10 contain seven negroes, with
the defendant, John Ven Zantt.) When asked
if the negroes were slaves he said they were free
by nature; and beng questioned as TO where he
nlo' them, replied that they got INTO his wagon Il,
Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati The pursuing
party then committed the negroes to jail at Coviny
ton, where they were identic,i by the plaintiff,
wharton Jones' as his Saves. The extent OF
damages claimed by the plaintiff was $1,000, for
which amount the Jury returned verdict.
In another action the same, for penalty
$500 provided by the law of the United States,
similar verdict was obtained
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Col. 4. NJ. JonNscN.-A meeting of 300 Lo-
co-Focos was casually convened recently at Boil
var, Polk County. Missouri, when a vote for