New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-27

then for the reckoningi
DoRRIsM IN WAsHiSGToS.-Messrs. Is. +. Hal
lett H. j. w alker. declined because Of health
and Nathan Clifford ~. s. Attorney Generall ap-
pear before the Supreme Court Of the United States
AZ Attorneys ON tho Dorr side of the great Rhode
Island case now pending. As Loco Focoism made
some capital out of this question in the contest Of
is44 we rejoice that our tribunal Of highest resort
which is about to settle the law Of the matter au-
thortatiyely is almost entirely LocoFoco, the only
Wing on the Bench being John NJ Lean of Ohio,
and he very moderate partisan. The case comes
up on an appeal of the Dorrites from the District
Court and the first Of their points ia as fol-
lows:
81" That the sovereignty OF the People is supreme and
forming government without the assent OF the
existing government
Waving all criticism on the incongruity of form
ing government where one is already er'stiHg, as
also all controversy as TO the assertion (which
do not admit that any evidence is can be given
that majority of the Rhode Islanders signifed
their acceptance of the Don Constitution, we have
looked closely through Messrs Clifford and Haletts
points, to see whether they touch the fundamental
question of questions Mo are the People of
Rhode Island, who have a right to do what they
please when they please, and form any sort of a
Government ia defiance or disregard of that already
existing Are all the human beings in Rhode
Island the People thereof Or the adults only 7
Or tho male adults Or the adult citiseRs' Or the
Ichite male adults Is there any recognized pro
cess by which persons excluded from Political
power BY the existing Constitution can enfranchse
thcmaalvas7 Or n N III q
man has right to vote by virtue of bis manhood
merely. what need of any Convention or Constitu.
tion to define the Right Of Sufirage' And how
came the Dorr Constitution to prescribe that the
Colored Free Citizens Of Rhode Island should be
allowed or denied the Right of Suffrage according
as tina votes Of the white) majority should decide
These questions grow upon us faster than they
can be written down but they are all involved in
onc-Wh0 are the People of Rhode Island who
have the inherent right peacefully and legally to
subvert one form of Government and establish
another, in Just such manner and at such time as
their own pleasure shall dictate Time and again
have we pressed this home on the Dorrites without
an answer and now they come into the Court OF
last resort without even abiding to it We can't
believe they really think their case has leg to
stand upon. At all events, we rejoice that the de
cision rests with Judges Of their own party, ap
pointed by Presidents of their own cloioe and we
trust these Judges will meet it mas fully, deciding
the question on its merits. and not evsding il by a
decision based on some incident or technicslty -
Let us have Dorrism fairly weighed and measured
In the Supreme Court OF the Union.
MississirPL-We have the proceedings OF the
Loco Foco State Convention OF Mississippi. which
assembled at Jackson two weeks since. Elk Gov
McNutt presided and the following Electoral ticket
was nominated;
For Electors ......Jo.-ph W. Chalmers.
H., a, 'qsss:; W,,.s % MsNy.t W M,vn.
No choice for President was indicated, Mr.. X. J.
Walker having declined to be presented. An at
dent with Gen. John A. Quitmsn of Miss. for Vice
was not sustained.
The great feature of the occasion was speech
from Non. George Poiniexter renouncing the Wing
party and especially attacking Mr.. Clay's Lexing.
ton speech. Old Poins. a. he is familiarly emit
tied. came over TO us from Jscksonism along with
Col j. w. Webb. bat we believe his conversion
cost nobody IN particular anything like s52,s75 He
lacked some qualities essential to his being eitherin
nuen,ial in or useful to the Wing party and he has
been in fish outo;w atery condition among Us for
some time He will be more at home where he has
gone, and we hope be will have good time there.
That he should begin his new career by asserting
that the Wings in May, 40, voted with one voice
that War existed by the act Of Mexico shows
tina, be has gone to his own place and that he
will not be deferred by any consideration of char
scter or conscience from making himself useful to
bis new associates. The fact that he has gone
cieao over and no, made 4 halt in TayIorism
proves oonclusvely to our mind that the pretence
VI Tsy s@ strength IN the Southwest is q delusion