Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1844-03-14
THE RHODE ISLAND MEMORIAL.

The House resumed the consider alton
"l the unfinished business oi Ihr n,"ruin2
h"nr, hrlng The tnIlowing rcsnluli"n here
t"t",r rrp"rrrd by Mr.. BuRKE:
Resolred, Thn, the S-!rct C"mmii'"-
nn the nrmnrial nf CERTAIN mcmbrrs al
the Rhode stand Legislature have power
t" send Tor Pr,s"n- and papers.
! Mr.. Cran-ion (wh" was rntulrd Ia the
! floor desired 4" correct an error i"ai
escaped from him IN The hurried. emdik>
hr made ou yesterday.
/ MIR G. Intended To- have said, that i;
| D"r hu,.rIl were here he would not
dispute the statement "i facts then n,ad- :;
TOR with all his ID r'-) faults, Mr.. &.
brhcvcd him To he hunest IN such mat.
itrts
Nv C.. then proceeded to remark that
'h" single "hicct u. bad in view was that
"t la, ing hrtnr" the House ~ irue and
perfect history al what was irrm-d the
Rhode islnnh question: aud Il appeared
I" hlm that no question had ever engaged
the heart al man, =" full "i deep, oi feat
inl consequences, not only 1" the people
"i thus country, bul To the civilized wn'ld
The question ITSELF lav IN u nutshell
1t was, whether ,br people. nt all times,
~ hen aud where they pleased, might
chans. their form of government II
was nv"wed bv D"rr and his friends that
| they had that right; ; we (saId Mr.. G. \
deny H.
Admitting, for tn. sake Of argument
which WAS directly the rcvcisr ol the
tact that every ih,nu sci iolIh in the
memorial of these iwrniy-sy "Drmn-
cratic" members OF the Legislature at
Rhode Island, upon wbirh this Select
I Cnminli're had been raised, was true,
he then asked this House, he asked the
gentleman from New Hampshire, (Mr
\ BURKE, to point ont the remedy tor the
trouble, or the supposed trouble, of bis
trends What had this House to do
with 1t; What had this Government To
do with II : We entertain (Said Mr.. T.. J
lhc idea that Rhode Island ~ n sovereign
Stale, and what right had thus louise Ia
inierirr" with her internal aud domestic
Concerns
But Mr. G. proposed to show that this
memorial was utterly, entirely ialse-
every single word oI It, with the rxcpp-
tIou at inr statement that these twenty
SIX men were members - he did No, adj
nat that they were democratic members
-oI the Legislature ol Rhode Island -
HIS notions 81! democracy and he had
always brlongrd TO the old JriTrrsonian
school - did not allow him Ia ndmIt that
these m"n were democrats, however the
gentleman iinm New Hampshire mighl
clam them as such In this memorial
they set forth IN snhstanrt that ihr pen-
ole of Rhode Island were grossly up-
pressed THAT n Constitution had been
thrust upon them bv small nin"rily oi
the people nf Rhode Island, aided hy
the Dnluary power aud the treasure oi
tho State. lie wished he had these
twrniy-sx members of the Legislature
araigned ia trout of him There was
n"i one oi them that would darp hold his
head up and say that this iniarnons me-
moral was true. Al al these men, with
perhaps n few exceptions, three ur Ion,
years ago would have taken their gums
aud gone against men who were ~ favor
ni an ovetiurnipg al the existing Con.
sttuiinn aud form oi Gnvcrnrnrn, - such
wa> the strong, the universal feeling ~
Rhohr Island which denied my change
"f Gwrrnnn II was known that
D"rr himself did not deny Il no man IN
Rhode Island who had suy regard to
truth would deny it,
Mr.. c. piocscded al some length 10
reed and 10 eu'pmen, upon various por.