The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-09-11

Of auy State il the Union, although its free
and liberal immunities were the CONCESSIONS
TO the people of royal munihcence. Under
pretence that the majority have ever right
to alter and modify their constitutions when
ever they see fit. regardless ofthat necessity
arising from extreme and otherwise irrem-
edial oppression which alone can justify rev.
olution. and which did not exist. Dorr I'M
asrtook to hold irregular elections at which
every body was permitted to vote, and even
twice over, whether qualified or not and nav
ing thus obtained majority which Suose-
quent events have showed to be mere cnea'-
cry, proceeded to put down even al TIE o'".
mons mouth, the existing government anu
ea,broue hinrselfand his followers IN the seats
,f,ouer from whence he was seeking to
d-;rs the regularly constituted magistracy by
-;o1snce and arms. Alter having thus hatch
cd I'D as rank rebellion as traitors ever
swing for. and involved his native State in
civil war, his revolutionary projects came to
Fought, his encampment at Chepachet was
broken up, and forsaken by his deluded fol-
lowers, he is compelled to flee the State.
He remained for a time in exile. But at
length had the hardihood to return, when he
was arrested, tried for treason, found guilty
and sentenced to States Prison for four years,
the very mildest punishment prescribed for
the highest offence known TO tie laws OF the
country. And even this imprisonment might
have been avoided but for his own obstinacy.
The Legislature then in session, believing
him cured of his fool-hardy aspirations would
willingly have granted him pardon had he
not been too indominabIe to ask for it. In
prison he is now treated with the greatest
clemency, and put to the easiest tasks consis-
cent with his condition. The authorities Of
Rhode Island could have done nothing less
without abandoning even the shadow OF law
and government. The man who for treason
would have swung on the gallows in any 9TH
er country, is only restrained to the light task
Of painting ornaments on ladies fans; and
even Of this he may be nd as soou as he is
willing to ask pardon of the State whose laws
be has violated, and the lives Of hundreds oil
~hose citizens be would have endangered had
The cannon been discharged to which this
rruel and infurated man with his own hands
I'D applied the blazing torch.
But why this war upon Rhode Island J
My this hue and cry Of persecution! Why
,.ess boat loads of sympathIzers and these
.lobocratic editorials Why is the patriot
tharles Linslsy N tears every now and then
before his Democratic Club in Middshury
for fear the patriotic Dorr should suf-
fer too severe punishment for having at
tsmpted even by wading through the blood
Of his fellow citizens, 10 trample upon the
regularly constituted authorities Of his native
STATED Why forsooth Governor Dorr as he
is styled is Democrat, aud not only has been
advocating but actually carrying out the loose
and jacobinical doctrines of the Loco-Foco
party and these mock phianthropists hope
to make political capital by reiterating the cry
Of persecution, and even sending rufains and
zowdies from among the canialle Of our cities
10 bully the State of Rhode Island if not TO
rescue the usurper DOrr from the walls OF
the prison to which the laws of his own ma
i've State have justly condemned him.
Had Dorr been a Wing. OH then the
case would have been different. But in the
mean time who Is to answer for the deIiterious
effects which the justification of the insurrec-
tionary movements of Dorr are about to have
upon the sentiments and morals Of the people!
fe envy not the INSCRIPTIONS dsmagogues
who are engaged in this agitation. the respon-
.ibili;y which they must encounter in the law
owing State Of Vermont