Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1845-02-01

! l"pi'dui upon any pan consistent WIN
Is the honor and stability Of sound prnci-
g pies; but the Rhode ISIaniMs will shed
! every dropof their blood baFbre he shall
y come OUT except by due process OF law.
Y Il Is, we believe, universally known that
>. Dorr refuses all voluntary submission TO-,
J, ohrecognl;on OF, the actual government
th refuses to petition for pardon, or TO
take the oath of allegiance Even il h.,
r we're TO adopt different course, he would
] have no Claim to come out; for no man
ever more richly deserved his punish
: ment. 1t is for no "polilical opinion"
hat he is punished, as some people seem
/, to think. Some Others call what he has
\ done "poitica otf.nce;" and so think
that it should be passed over lightly
, But mDrder is none the less murder, be-
, cause politics is the motive. Suppose
. some Democrat hal shot Mr CLAY. ius,
to insure the election of Mr. Polk; or
some Wing had shot .1ir. Polk, TO insure
the election OF Nr. Clay. Fne crime
4 would. il you please, have been,a polili-
cal offence. But it would have bee
murder, nevertheless We are not so
far gone in liberal notions, that we are to
call murder, stealing, pIunder, and open
war, mere matters OF politics Dorr Ie-
Wed war against the government of his
state; and that was treason, n0lwlthstan-
ding he did il because he wished tobe
Governor himself. He broke open artll.
lery houses and stole the guns, and CON
United numerous bIrglarIes AL rob59res;
or his followers did, AMI he slnctioaed
1t by using the stolen property; an
tn Sc were non. the less crimes because
they were committed in order to make
Mr.. D)rr Governor, He clusel tn .
cannon TO be charged to the mlz zIe with
deadly missiles. and set over the n 'ntoxi
cltel men with torches in their hands, to
teal death among tae lrielis Of order il
they dared 10 march upon his camp; and
when no one else would apply the
match he did it himself; and this was
not the less treason and murder, because
1T was done to make him Governor, MOI
because mercilu Providence prevented
he powder from igniIng. In fact, there
never was go' up a more vilIalnous, a
more unpatrntic, shameful affair, than
This treason Of Doris It has covered |
every man with shame who has parlici-
paed IN il, aud will do SO to the end
the chapter; a; least, so we hspe. And
what was it all for? For The acquisition
Of rights? Not in the least. The Con
Is'lntion now existing in Rhode Island,
and which was framed before DORIS mil
nary movements commenced, is as ber-
al as that framed by he DorrHes All
the horrors of civil war were determined
on. TO crafty the muliSh ohstinacy of
Thomis w. Dorr. after all his principal
men had deserted his standard IIede,
clared TO one Of his leading men, who t,,ll
US himself, shat he would take nnthingl
from the other slde," 1t was not because
he terms of peace were not Satisfactory,
bat that he did not dictate them. What
If he we're let out nov? II probably
woul not b. month, before he would
have another gang OF ragged rowdied
paradlng the street. of Pro yldence, with
arms in their hands, swaegering, threa-
tening, and doing all the da>tardy acts
OF meanness which the large liberty Of
our country permits. We say, no =
Rhoe Island has mania ed the principles
which must be maintained everywhere
lf Dorrlsm is 70 prevail, our constitution
al liberty and peace would be exchanged
Or the endless turmoil and revolutions oil
physical force, which 60 on with cease
less horrors in Mexico and the South
American States. Lei US have The ones
ton settled where we are. Our watch.
worI is, the Constitution and the Laws
he whole proceeding on the side OIL
Dlrr, and still more that the Governors
aud Other leading Democrats who have /,
abetted hun, meets our most cordial ab
horrence. and shall have our unnlncningl /,
Reproduction al all inns AMI under ali /
circumstances, however little that repro ),
'ation may be worth, The people Of !
Rhode Island understand th- mat ter, and
he overwhelming MAJORITY with which 4
hey nave condemned II, IL but sample !,
II what the whole country will do when !,
he subject is fully underst God. Let any !.
eclIon OF the Democratic party, or the K
Whole party, identity themselves with 4
)orrisn, and il. il does MOI utterly dts !.
roy them, we are no prophets. D'rr 5 IL
movements were denounced by his father, T.
is bro. hers, and all his kindred, an they -
we're several OF them ia arms against II
i'm; not from any wish TO do him mis- - =
hiet, tut from deep conviction Of ne =
essary duty.
But we have made a long DEPRESSION - ev
'hough Dorr would have 10 claim to re- IN
Ease, were he to petition for il and swear an
} be good citizen hereafter; and al Re
Rough the governmental Rhode Island Pa