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Tremendous Conspiracy!

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Day
13
Month
June
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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The Madisonian, the organ of President Tybr, s trying experiments on the gullibility fpeople, apparently for the purpose of asertaining how fir it is possible to bumbug hem. Mr. Tyler took ground in the Rhode slandcase, against the right of a majority of he people to alter their government in any vay oxcept by the permisión, or through the gency of the existing g vemment. He herefore etood ready to defeml the conrse aken by the charter party, with the whoie orce of the nation. As a disposition to inestigate the merits of this position began to be displayed, an if tempt was made to créate a new issue, which might be carried without iscussion, by the high pressure humbug m'nciple. Accordingly, six articles appearerl n one paper, setting fon h that President Tver, nnd his man Jones, of the Madisonian, had eceived intimations from divers sources, that 'one of the most diabólica] plots thut was ever oncocted by mortal men, had recently been oncocted by a band of fanatics and desperadoes, against the peace of our common counry" - "that theabolitionists of the North have aken advantage of the unhappy posture of affairs in Rhode Island, to ihrow off the raask of their hellish purpose to dissolvr the Union, or to effect by fraud and violence the destrucion of the Conatilutions of the Southern Stntes" - that "some of the leaders of the suffrae party in Rhode Island had bargained with the fanai ics for the overthrow of go vernments, and that the revolution would not top in Rhode Island, but would sweep to the South like a hurricane!" In onother article the affair is spoken of as "grand abolition movemejst!" By vvay of roof it is added : "Dorr is an aholitionist of the most rabid escription. Allen, from Ohio, the deuiag"gue, Jacobin, destructive, we have rea'eon to uppose, will be the champion of the Northrn abohtionists, from this time forth. Dorr eclared to a mob (headed by Cambreling and Vanderpoel; that 'all men were equal;' 'that ie was the uncompromising advocate of human nglits;' 'that the majority of human bengs iii anv State had a right to alter and abolsh the Constitution, at any time- and fifty tner canf phrases of the fanatics . "To all suggpstiuns thaí the difficuhv could )e settled aiuicably, Dorr tumed a dcaf ear._ Ie declared thot no offers of compromise vould be listened to that did not ackowled.'e 'human rights"-lhe right of the majority not only to goverv, but to alter andisk governmenis ál (hár plaisurc!" Tliis is tlio vital principie of the aboütionists.- Dorr is a rank abolitionist himsclf. Were this principie estoblished. the abolitibriisfg would have a triumph indeed. They would only have to creep through the Southern Sü'tes, take down the names of all the blacki over one years of' nge, and all t..p reckless, miserable white fanatics - men vh have notliing at stake, and would, at a moment's warning, engrage in any lawless enterprise that promised boot y - and then, at a concerted sipnal, tiirow up the blnck flog of insurreclion,ana proclaim tuk laws kxtlnct." The ijadisonian goes on to show what the fanatics are doing at Washington - Adams' revolulionary petition - Giddings' resolutions - J. Lenvilt writes letters from thence, &tc. fcc, The whole attempt to get up an excitement is so ludicrous tliat it will onK1 excite contempt anrl aiighter.

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Signal of Liberty
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