Rhode Island Slavery

-Tb e Pree Pres?quotes Dr. Franklin as aplicable to the Rhode Island matter. "Every man. it is said. (extíopí infants. insane persons, and crimiiuils.; is of'coni . mon right, afrccmán;" and all those who have no voice or vote n electing ropresentatives, are ahaolutely "aislare t" to those who have votes VVell, let us apply the principie. Negroes artnien-are thcynoi? Now when the negioes apphed (or the right of suffrag" in this Stat , the triends of the Free Press ooposed it. Does the F'ec Prees adnilt thnt it would keep negroes in slavery in Michigan! Again, appiication wns made to thé last New York Legislature, to pui the ngh ofvotingon the same footing for colred as for the white menj it being claimed as a nut iral right. It was rejected. Mr. Cramer. i. leadingloco foco, made an elabórate report, in which he ma ntained that euffrage was not n natural but only a political or civil right, which the state might justly grant or withhold as it saw fit. Ihe Rhode Islatid landholders take the same ground. Finaliy, Dorr's own enstitution does not give the eleciive franchise to negroes, and consequently there would be in the land of Roger VVilliarns, under this nnw constitution, according to this doótrine. six hundred and seventy slaves, over twenty-four years of age by the census of 1840. In Michigan by the same census, there would be one hundred and ninety seven sla ves of the same age, notwithstandinír the ordinance of J786. We go for an extensión of the right of suffrage in Rhode laland, not becauae wc think non voters are slaves, hut because t is juat and reasonable. These pweeping. universal ubstractions, are "ther dangerous things in practice, and would make a great overthrow in sonte Dortions