Rhode Island

We have not been indifferent observers of the nteresting and important questions affecting i man freedom and popular nghts, which are now . on trial in Rhode Island. Having planted oursolveson the platform of the Deciaration of Indeaendence, we cannot. of course, deny or disparase ' ihe right of the people tothrow off an oppressive government by rev-)lution, whenever its grievance hecome intolerable, and all milder means of redrc85 fail. The quesiion is, whether, that clause of the Constilution which guaranties to cach State a repablican form of government, is to be construed as a eanction of the peaceable exercise of this original and inherent right. so that a disfranchised najority of the people, rising up in their majesty and framing a new Cons itu(ion, shall be recognized by the federal authoriiies as the government of the State. If it shall be decided that the disfranchised majoritv can thus ronsii'utionaüij recover their rights, bj a spont.ineous and self-orijrinated movement. and can actually supersede and set aside the existing government, it may hereafter be a question of great ntetest to the disf anchisel majorüy in South Carolina. Nordoesilseem material to their ..aee, whether the people in question were disfranchised by a charter granted by on English monarch, or by an order in council of another. It ia not likely. however. that this question will be allowed tocóme to an issue It has too many bearings, and the present difficulty about ascertaining the actual facts in regard to the majority will be laid hold of to effect a compromise, hy which the majority will obtain a pracical recognition of their riehs, without the minoriiy sieming to make too great a concession. The same thing will probably take place also in S .uth Carolina, at some period not far disiant. Verbum