The Recent Contest in Rhode Island: An Article From the North American Review, for April, 1844 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Recent Contest in Rhode Island: An Article From the North American Review, for April, 1844

The question has little bearing on the present strife of parties in the United States. Whigs and Democrats were arrayed indifferently on either side of the contest in Rhode Island, and in the eagerness with which they engaged in this local warfare, they seemed to forget or to Spurn the ties which bound them to the two great parties that divided the Whole country. The civil war severed all attachments to parties In national politics, just as, in many cases, it ruptured all family ties, and arrayed brother against brother, and father against son. Not till a comparatively late period in the struggle, did the managers of the old parties in the other States attempt to lay hold of this local contest, and to con vert it into what is now usually termed, in the jargon of the day, political capital for their own purposes. With this attempted application and management of the dispute, we have nothing to do or to say. The question does not con cern a tariff, or a bank, or internal improvements, or the dis tribution of the public lands. It relates solely to the exten sion of the right of suffrage, the duty of obedience to exist ing forms of government, the stability of our political insti tutions, and the right of revolution. We have a right to consider it, therefore, without abandoning that neutral posi tion in respect to the politics of the day, which this Journal has always studiously maintained.

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Excerpt from The Recent Contest in Rhode Island: An Article From the North American Review, for April, 1844

1. An address to the People of Rhode Island, delivered in Newport, May 3, 1843, in Presence of the General Assembly, on Occasion of the Change in the Civil Government of Rhode Island. By William G.Goddard. Providence: 1843. 8vo. pp. 80.

2. A Concise History of the Efforts to obtain an Extension of Suffrage in Rhode Island, from the Year 1811 to 1842. By Jacob Frieze. Providence: 1842. 12 mo. pp. 171.

3. The Affairs of Rhode Island: a Discourse delivered in Providence, May 22, 1842. By Francis Wayland. Providence: 1842. 8vo. pp. 32.

4. Charge of the Honorable Chief Justice Durfee to the Grand Jury, at the March Term of the Supreme Judicial Court at Bristol, R. I. 1842. 8vo. pp. 16.

5. A Review of Dr. Waylands Discourse on the Affairs of Rhode Island; a Vindication of the Sovereignty of the People, and a Refutation of the Doctrines and Doctors of Despotism. By A Member of the Boston Bar. Boston: B. B. Mussey. 1842. 8vo. pp. 30.

6. An Address to the People of Rhode Island on the approaching Election. By John Whipple. Providence: 1843. 8vo. pp. 16.

7. Considerations on the Questions of the Adoption of a Constitution and Extension of Suffrage in Rhode Island. By Elisha R. Potter. Boston: Thomas H. Webb &Co. 1842. 8vo. pp. 64.

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