Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1854-03-16


people Of Rhode Island, after having
had better opportunities than are usual,
ofstudying anarchy in its very worst
form, seems to have prof,ted little by
the lesson, or to have fallen utterly and
entirely in love with misrule and its in
evilable mischief. Alter tho dangers oi
Mr.. Doris revolution we should have
supposed that a recurrence OF such
scenes would have been consigned to
safe obscurity and kept there and that
an abiding love Of law and OF order
would have marked the small state, for
at least a century TO conc. But with
facility which Is positively Partisan the
citizens Of Rhode Island have elected a
Legislature, the utter license OF which
throws the court and camp OF Chepat.
ehet into the shade. Mr.. Dorr and hls
army were at least open enemies OF law,
and avowcd champions oi disorder, they
could be shot hung, and imprisoned,
they could be driven over the borders
they could be pat on short rations Of
rum and crackers. But these fellows
have actually got possession OF the State
House. which D,rr only threatened to
take, and can mutilate at will tho rec
ords which he could only destroy alter
having captured them spon nd optma -
He recruited his army in the classic VI
cinity Of the Pewter Mug,but these gem
tIsmen are oI a different stamp, and the
selected excellence aud ability OF the
Commonwealth.
Having got into power under the reg
ular Constitution, the exceedingly ae-
commodanng and iacile representa-
CT Rhode Island, proceed to glorliy and
emblazon MIR. Doris, forgetting all the
time, that il the instrument Of their la
test affection has one genuine line in il,
they are all set Of swindlers and i'm
posters, that the Senate, the House, tho
whole governments sham. But the
red radicals Of Rhode Island are not 10
DO deferred from fancy Legislation by
any such considerations as I. csc. They
have therefore during the last year been
ss mIschievous and malicious rs possi-
le,and have quietly done many things,
which the pikeme1 oi IS42 had the will
but not the courage TO effect. They
have made two attempts to overthrow
the Constitution, the last one following
sImos, directly upon popular eondem-
nation OF the trst; they have forced up
on the good people OF Providence an al.
tera,on OF their charter they have mu.
lilaied the records Of the General As
sembiy they have annulled a Judgment
Of The Supreme Court. All thss. acts,
il we do not misunderstood them, are
simply indelensible. But radical, when
he thinks he Is backed up by majority,
which lie is perfectly Inscriptions IN
securing, never pretends 10 defend his
shrewd iniqulIss or cunning lalsifca-
tions. He hns got the power, aud he
means 10 keepn. He will ,rea, you TO
a long rigmaro'e about popular rights
and popular sovereignty which there
is no more sense than there is in the
braying Of an ass he will talk, exhort,
and maunder-- bu, he never comes 10
the point, and he does not mean to-
They have some capital specimens OF
these designing gentlemen ia the Rhode
Island Legislature, with weaker hreth-
rem enough to sustain them. If these
burlesque Legislators ever get back to
the places which they have dishonored,
the people OF the little State deserve to
be ground to powder by n democratic
despo,ism.-hev Bedford Mercury.