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" masr.T? T ^i.-r" ^ ng evidence of I !?oir fertilizing proportion; I for nil mound llu* edges of those liMle j mounds the preen, ward Iind firmed a strong and close turf. Will; this evidence before mv eyes, I could not rcsi: t tlie conviction. that i.us d?'-|?i>ed and neglcctcd thin?v was a valuable manure. It also occurcd to mo, that my white livcrv lands were the very {dace to apply it. Accordingly after grubbing and otherwise pre. paring lhcs?e low places, m which I It <d a g 'Oil deal oi labor,! began tocait on the con I ashe.s. And here it is tell to ludicrous what a subject of ridicule I speedily h('came among my sapient neighbors. My carts were sometimes stopped, and the ' ' I-- l i. / '.in i ii'ir inn j. me a short homily on my neglect oi Jinm. un this i have a word or two to shv. And, firsi, I thank him for his remarks. I receive them in the spirit of kindness, for this I know is he spirit in which they were made. But let us inquire wherein consists the great value of lime as a in mure? And here oerhaps 1 may advance some things which will deprive nv of the good opinion which it s^ems that J)r Du puy and others have formed ? f my mode of fanning. If this be the case, I shall sincerely regret it, but shall, notwithstanding, piocecd in my simple but candid way. No one, then, as far as I am informed, pteterwis that imie is an enricher, or that it hjm one single enriching quality. The early opinion was that it acted as a stimuli)?, strong* fy exiting a plant to seek for all the food that might be in us reach. Cut this opinion is now. 1 believe, pretty generai'y exploded; and the more modern phrase is, th t it is c-liiefl' useful in fixing the manures in the s il, and thus rendering thetn permanent Tins, if 1 understand hiin aright, is the idea which the editor intends to convey in his note Now in this I do most cordially and fuNy agree with him, and I do contend that my practice has been uniformly in accordance with the 6amo. The editor, and all the advocates for lime, will admit that manure or vegetation of some kind Is necessary as aprcparalnry application No one, at. the present day, will think of ap plying liitic to a naked soil. But the firs! effort is ?o charge the soil with vegetation, and then the lime w ili have something to act *ipon. Now I have been doing this very !t)iing ever since I became a farmer. My land, as 1 before stated, was perfectly naked. It would not do to report to lime, whilst it was in that state. It needed manure, it needed a cover, it now has boih ; and now, and not till now, war it in a state to receive liine. But it seems that manure will ^not be permanent unless it has been fixed, by lime/This, I confess, ! do not thoroughly under.-t-md. Jlfy idea is, that tjic manutes fix themseives. The reason why they are rot permanent, is because there is a deficiency in the supply. Make ilie supply ample, and I\iil guaranty th it they will be p nnanent. In accordance with this, we see that in ca?osofgroat f.-rtili. ty the crop is uniformly a large one. Now let this crop fall and rot on the land, and thufl keep up the necessary su ply, and the conse. quence will be, that fertility will not only be permanent, but will actual'y increase. In fores's, therefore, where the whole product is iJepixsjted, and norhing is taken olF, the l-mds question seriously uskcu, ter l>e in his senses, in carrying out that useless tliiM"!" 1 however [(reserved, nud the very next season I reaped as luxuriant a crop ot grass, from this poor cold livery land, as I ever saw grow on the rich bottoms in the upper country. The tables are now completely turned, for I frequently detect rnv neighbors in eom. uniting the same folly, for which they heaped on me such a load of ridicule. There is also another circumstance winch highly recommends the coach ashes as a manure, and tiiat is, that they are not only speedy, hut permanent in their effects. How long they will last, and still manifest their efficacy, I cannot tell, lean point to places on my lann which were enriched by them (en years ago and these jdaces are rich still. Every time I plough I hring up portions of these ashes, end they appear as fresh as they were when first applied. Whether they have the faculty of fixing other manures in the soil. I cannot tell; hut this I know that they have the wonderful faculty of fixing themselves. From the fact of their exceedingly slow decomposition, one would mppose that they hail hut little, if any elTv ary. But when I see those places on which thev have been deposited, closely covered with a strong turf, I must conclude 1 hat there is a powerful influence at work, though I cannot understand the mode ol jia operation. Encouraged by mv success on the cold livery lands. I determined to test the value of this article on the higher and lighter lands. And here the experiment was equally sntisfactci y. On a part of a field which f cultivated in corn 1 applied putre<*ent manures ; on another purl, lying -?ib?n?T ihe s?ch? of it. I annhed coal asiies. e? - -i i The season, especially the latter part of it, was rather a bud one for com. About the time of earinji.il was attached w ith a drought from w hich the crop sulTerec; scvciely. Tint I could but no'ire tin striking difference in the two portions of the field. \V here the manure was applied the hlailes fired. n??W the product was indillbrent; w hereas, where the ashes was put, the eorn maintained a vigorous green even to the lowest blade, and the crop was a hcavv one. But the chief value ofthis article is ns a topdressing on the grasses. Ib-re its uniform action it as a charm. Last spring I had the pleasure of a visit from a highly valued fiiemi from the upper country. Tins visit, as he naul, was to the farm as well as to me. Afu r passing over several fields, I conducted hen to <mewhich had been covered with ashes flm preceding winter. Aim! Jlrore he ? xpre s ed his utter astonishment, deelarng thai fie had never seen any tiling to equai it, except under the strong influence of gypsum. I ought to observe, that this field bad been .seeded to timothy and herds-grass, but there was a considerable sprinkling of volunteer clover among it. "TVw is, how ever, one gn-at. drawback to lire value of this article, and that is ps great weight. When sobbed by detrains of winter, (and most of ft is in this condition ) 12 bushels is a good load for an orebnary team. Indeed inv mules oflen stiff r very much under their task of three loads per day to the distance of nlmut three miles. Upon the whole,! am so thoroughly convinced of the enriching qualities of coal ashes, that could 1 find a bed of them on my farm, I sliould fee) myself atnniy compensated for the w ant of the richest inarl. But the ed tor has thought proper lo r^ad w - r * ' 4 i lvr-mrwJK ! arc in a state of continual progressive improvement, and that too without a particle oi lime j i li> fix the manure. Hut it wi'l l>o said that, according to this, ! the purposes of cultivation will he defeated; that the object of tiling" js not merely to kf'P i up /ertilify. hut to obtain supplies for the oilier necessary purposes of life. This is all gran| led, and at the same time 1 maintain that, where the products are regular'.)' removed from the land, depreciation will necessarily en: sue, unless other vegetation is furnished to j supply the deficiency, 'eme alone, without ! oih -r enriching1 substances for it to act upon, i will not an* vr tli?* purpose. "The one j ?Iii??or peed'ul." then, is n<?} lime, hut enriching j vegetation to make fortili'y permanent. I j will n ?\v inform tlio editor tint, some time ago, | I did use lime to some e\tet t. My first exI perimont was with hnrnt oyster shell?, and en ! a piece of land which had been recently clear[ ed. II-re the effects were evident and highly j satisfactory. About thi* time I got. hold of j the editor's invaluable Essay on Calcareous j .Manures Other shorter productions, also, setting forth the great value of lino as a manj ure, were constantly coming under tr.v notice; | from all which I concluded'hat this w is indeed the "one thing1 needful" as an improver, of the soil. A. Robinson, esq , my next neigh! bor, had also taken tip the same opinion. Accordingly we both procured lime, and without regard to any previous preparation, made our applications with the most confident expectations of success. Cut mortifying to tell, our effor's were without any benefn ial effect I whatever. We had expended our money ! and labor, bo'h to a considerable ox'ent, and ( our on v rewaid was morliticatiou and di?ap~ j pointmeut. I n connexion with the above views, and going a great way towards confirming them. I | wilistu'e that I lately made a visit to Mr. F. ' *V 'S ?n?'.'1 tny niosi industrious and j enterprising neighbors. I found liiin, just i where 1 like to see very \ottug a.nl healthy farmer, in'he mid'-t of Ins negroes not sitting ?\r? n cl uinn lU/lttirtinflT hie own indolence n r- ^ whilst taxing their exertions, hut ar.ttial'y ho'd'n<r the handles of the plough and tukmjf his j full part in the labors of the (Uy. Whilst j there, besides several piles ol manure which I were d-posit* H in his at convenient points j for his crop, / observed a considerable quintii ty of oyster site I Is, somn already burnt, i and others in a situation readv to undergo that necessary operation. 1 ought to inform the reader that, for two years or more, Mr. Staples has been in the hahil j of making considerable usa of (his article on his farm. And here \ could not hut I be struck with the remarkable coincidence J that without any previous observation ! leading to the remark, thisj'idicj ions manager, pointing to the lime | did say, 44 I have been greatly ! disappointed in that article." Having j been disappointed myself in the same I manner, 1 was at no loss to exp nin the ^utsoof his failure. It was simply he cause his land was not prepared for it. It needed the great prerequisite, manure : and all doses of lime administered in this state, instead of curing the patient, did j hut aggravate the m?lndv. Here then isa distinction which I th iik of paramount rn port a nee, and I hereby givn it all the I prominence of which I air. capable. ITy not attending to this d.stinction, I am O , j fully convinced that much mischief has been done, and the only way to counteri act the evil is to arrest it at once. How j much my neighbors and others may have J stifli-red in this way 1 cannot t? 11, but in j inv own ease I am confident that $100 ! would not cover the I ?s?. The editor, i therefore, and all others w ho are so earni est about firing manures with lime, will I see to it, that the manures are in the land ' / . . , , / .I dejore tlicy attempt to n.\ incm. Rut it will he objected, tlint according to mv own account of the matter, one experiment in the use of lime was a successfill one. To this I reply, that this only confirms the position taken ahovc. It will he recollected that this experiment was on land newly cleared. Hero there were many small roots and other litter for the lime to aet on, without which, I hesitate not to saw there would have been tiie cairie disappointment as in the other cases. And here perhans T ought to conclude, hut still I am unwilling to stop, fearing that I inav not have been fully understood, J and thus may draw upon myself the ani madversions of others for sentiments which I do not entertain. I do therefore candidly state, that whilst I regard lima under some circumstances as a most valuable article, I do at the same tiinc consider it a most dangerous one, especially in the hands of the inexperienced. We j now know that it is a most caustic thing, j but we did not know it (ill we had first j hurnt our fingers with it. And as no one I is disposed to blame himself, but ifpossij hie to fix it on olhcrs, we arc disposed to j give a portion of tbc blame to the editor, J who, by representing it " as the one thing j needful," has unintentionally induced i some of us Iyroes to inflict this injurv on ! ourselves. In mv next, (unle s I have i to defend myself from l lie attacks of others ! 1 shall detail my course of cropping.* J. II. Trunks. DOCUMENTS i relating to affairs of rhode island. statement Submitted by Messrs. Whipple, Francis, and Poller, to the President of the Failed Stales. The undersigned, having been deputed by Samuel W. King, the (governor of ! the State of lihodc Island, to lay before j you the present alarming condition in which the people ol the Mate are placed, and to request from you the adoption of such prudential measures as, in yonr i opinion, may tend to prevent domestic ! violence, hog leave most respectfully to I state the following, among the leading i facts, to which your attention is more ! particularly invited : That the people of Rhode Island have no fundamental law except the charter ot King Charles the Second, granted in IGt>.'3, and ttie usage of the Legislature I under it. Legislative usage under their I their charters has been decided hv the I ' Supreme Court of the Cnitod States to y < <? ' -?-? w- TSJwr'.-v !"/ " - he the fun Itmental law, both in Conncc- | ticot and Rhode Island. That, from the (late of the Rhode Island charter down to the year IS41, a period of nearly two hundred years, no person has been allowed to vote for town or State : I officers unless possessed ol competent es. ! tales, ami admitted free in the several j i towns in which they resided. That, since the statute of 1723, no | i person could be admitted a freeman of I ! any town unless he owned a freehold cs- J | tale of the value fixed by law, (now one ! ' hundred and thirty four dollars,) or was j the eldest son of such a freeholder. That, until the past year, no attempt I Imx boon made, to our knowledge, to cs. | tablish any other fundamental law, bv : force, than tiic one under which the pco! pie have lived for so long a period. That, at the January session of the Legislature in 1841, a petition, signed by live or six hundred male inhabitants, pray* j ing for such an extension of sulFrage as | the Legislature might, in their wisdom,j I deem expedient to propose, was present- j ! ed. : That, influenced l?y that petition, as j well as by other considerations, the Leg* ' isluture, at that session, requested the ; qualified voters, or freemen, as they are called with us, to choose delegates at their regular town meetings to be liolden' in i o r* August, 1840, for n convention, to hefl liolden in November, 1841, to frame a written constitution. That the result of the last meeting of this legal convention, in February, 1842, I Wis the constitution accompanying this 1 statement, marked ?, which, in case of ; its adoption by the people, would have 1 been the supreme law of the State. Most of the above facts are contained in the printed report of a numerous committee of the Legislature, at their session in March, 1842, which report was adopj ted by the Legislature. That, in May, 1841, after said legal convention had been provided for by ttic i Legislature, and before the time appoint* i cd for the choice of delegates by tho quali* j tied voters, (August, 1811.) a mass meeting was held by the friends of an ex ten* I sion of suffrage at Newport, at which ; meeting a committee was appointed, call* ! ed the State Committee, W^o were air* ; thorized bv said mass meeting to take i measures for calling a convention to frame a constitution. That this committee, thus authorized, ! issued a request for a meeting of the male : citizens in the several towns to appoint j delegates to the proposed convention. That me tings, ?f unqualified voters principally, (as we believe.) were accordingly holden in the several towns, unaoj thorized by law, and contrary to the invariable custom and usage of tljc State j from 1063 down to that period. That the aggregate votes appointing the deloj nines tt? timi eoi*', itcctirutrtg | to their own estimate, about 7,200; whereas the whole number of . male citi-, i zens, over twenty-one years of nge, after ! making a deduction for foreigners, paupers, &e., was, also according to their own estimate, over 22,000. That this conven'ion, thus constituted, convened in Providence in October, 1841, ! and the constitution called the 44 people's f constitution" was the result of their dc' liberations. That, at subsequent meetings of portions of the people, in December, 1841. ' bv the authority of this convention alone, | (elected, as its delegates had been, by about one-third of the voters, according to their standard of qualification.) all males over twenty one years of age were j admitted to vote for the adoption of the | people's constitution. That these meet : ings were not under presiding officers whose legal duty or legal right it was to interpose any check or restraint as to age, residence, property, or color. - r i ?u -1.! _i_ _ r 41 : ! tfV i?e lotineenin nrucic 01 uiuir constitution it was provided, that "This ! constitution shall he submitted to the pen. |>le, Tor their adoption or rejection, on | Monday, ?he 27lU of December next, and j on the two succeeding flays." * * "And j every person entitled to vote as aforesaid, j who, from sickness or ulher causes, may | be unable to attend and vote in the town or ward meetings assembled for voting | upon said constitution, on the days tifnrcsail], is requested to write his name on a i ticket, and to obtain the signature upon the back of the same of a person who has given in his vote as n witness thereto.? ' And the moderator or clerk of any town ) or ward meeting, convened for the purI pose aforesaid, shall receive such va,e on I either of the three days next succeeding j the three davs before named for voting j for said constitution." During the first three days about nine j thousand votes were received from the I hands of the voters in the open town 'meetings. fly the pi ivilege granted to I every and all the friends of the con>tifn[ tion, of bringing into their meetings the j namks of voters during ihe three followj ing davs, five thousand votes more were I obtained, making an aggregate of about ( fourteen thousand voles. This constitution, thus originating and thus formed, was subsequently declared by this convention to be the supreme law of the land. I?v its provisions, a Gov-, ornment is to be organized under it, by the choice of a Governor, D'cut. Governor, Sennto's and Representatives, on I me .ilonuny piereaing me intra H ednes- ; ; (lav in April, 1^42. f5y llie provisions of the " I;ini]?io!cIer.s9 j I constitution," as the legal ennstirutinn is! I called, every white male native citizen, J possessing the freehold qualification, and over twenty-one years of age, may vote, ! upon a residence of oxi: year; nnd with- j out any freehold, may vote upon a residence of two years, except in the case of votes for town taxes, in winch case the' voter must possess the freehold qualification, or he taxed for other property of the [ vuluc'of.$ 150, i j By the "people's constitution," "eve. ry white male citizen of the United States of thence oftwenty-one years, who has resided in this State for ovi: year, and in the town wliere he votes for six months," shall he permitted to vote, with the same exception as to voting lor town taxes ns is contained in the other constitution. The provision, therefore, in relation (o the ?;re:il subject in dispute, the elective franchise, is substantially the same in the two constitutions. . Oa the 21sl, 22d, and 23d .March last, tlie legal constitution, hy an act of the Legislature, was submitted to all the pet. t i i i. _ sons wno, ny iis provisions, wouiu nc entilled to vote under it, after its adoption, for their ratification. It was rejected by a majority of G7G, the number of votes polled being over 10,000. It is believed that many freeholders voted against it, because they were attached to the old form of government, and were against any new constitution whatever. I?oth parties used uncommon exertions to bring I all their voters to the polls; and the result of the vote was, under the scrutiny : of opposing interests, in legal town meet-ings, that the friends of the people's constitution brought to polls probably not over 7,000 to 7,500 votes. The whole j vole against the legal constitution was "about 8,000. If we allow 1.000 as the number of freeholders who voted against j the legal constitution, because Ihuy are j opposed to any constitution, it would leave the number ol the friends of the people's constitution 7,000, or one-third of the State under the new qualification proposed by cither constitution. ?- " .l_? i I K., j policy winch seem to have given rise to i the unfortunate controversies between a ! portion of the citizens and the existing I Government of the State. They are questions of municipal regulation, the adjustment of which belongs exclusively to the people of Rhode Island, and with which this Government can have nothing to do. For the regulation of my conduct, in nnv interposition which I may he called mnn to make, between the Government of a State and any portion of its citizens who may assail it with domestic violence, or may he in actual insurrection against it, I con only look to the Cons itution and laws of the United plates, which plainly declare the obligations of the Bxecnt;ve Department, ari l leave il no aher.ialtcc r/s! ij the crane ft shall pursue. I u srpms increuime uiiii nu-iu^.m w*. 14.006 friends of the people's constitution j in the State, animated as they are hy a j most extraordinary and enthusiastic feelj ing and vet, upon this trial, in the usual i open and fair way of voting, thev should have obtained hut about 7,600 votes. The unanimity of the subs-q i rnt ac tion of the Legislature, comprehending as /it did both the great political parties? the II ouse of Representatives giving a vote of sixty in favor of maintaining the existing (Government of the State and onlv six on the other side, with a tinani, mous vote in the Senate?the unanimous and decided opinion of the supreme court "declaring this extraordinary movement to be in all its stages, a majority of that couri b'd'ig of the democratic party, with other facts of a similar character, j have freed this question ot a mere party | character, and enabled us to present it as I a great constitutional question, i Without presuming to discuss the clc| inontary fundamental principles o( gov; emmont, we deem it our duty to remind vmi of the fact that the existing Govern, merit of Rhode '? * o,.vernment ! that adopted the Constitution of the Lntj irti orates, became a member of the Confederacy, and has'ever since been represented in the Senate and lfcu.se of Rep. rescntntivcs. It is at this moment the existing Government of Rhode Island, both dr. farto and de jure, and is the only Government in that Slate entitled to the protection of the Constitution of the Unitcd Slates. It is that Government which now ca!U upon the General Government for its interference: and even if the lo^al effecl ' P of there being an ascertained majority of unqualified voters against the existing (Government was as is contended for by the opposing party, yet, upon their own principle, ought not that majority, in point of fact, to l?e clearly ascertained, not by assertion, but by proof, in order to '!"* rlonnr^l ('flt'Ormllcnl in With. JU3lll> iiiv; ur.ni;iui uvi - drawing its legal and moral influence to ~ P prevent domestic violence ? That a domestic war of the most ferocious character will speedily ensue, unless prevented by a prompt expression of opinion here, cannot be doubted. In relation to this we ri Per to the numerous resolutions passed at meetings of the frion Is of the pimple's constitution, and more especially to the Cumberland resoluI tions, herewith presented, and the aflulavits marked ?, and to repeated expresj sions of a similar reliance upon the judgj mcnt of the Chief Magistrate of the na| fion. All which is respectfully submitted bv John VVinrw.F., John Brown Francis, Llisii a R. Pottkk. To bis Excellency Jort.v Tvlkr, President of lhe United States. lkttf.r from mr. tvlkk. To his Excellency, the Governor of II. Island: Sir : Your letter, dated the 4th instant, was banded me on Friday by Mr. Whip, pie, who. in company with Mr. Francis and .Mr. Potter, called upon mc on Saturday* and placed ine, both verbally and bv writing, in possession of the prominent 1 facts which have led to the present unhap' pv condition of tilings in Rhode Island? ! a state of things which every lover of I peace and good order must deplore. 1 shall not adventure the expression of an I opinion upon those questions of domestic Rv* (ho fourtli section of the fot r'h ar- I tide of the Constitution of the United j Si at OS, it is provided that the U ?i:ed ' States shall guaranty to rvcrv Slate in | this Union a rep .blican form of govern- | i ment, and shall profeo.t each of them against invasion; and on the application 1 of llu: Legislature, or Executive when the j Eegidatu*' cannot be convened, against ! domestic violence. And by the act of CYn gross, approved on iheUSlh ofl'ebruarv, 17Dj, it is declared that, in case of j an insurrection in any State again?/ the Government thereof, it shall ho lawful for , the President of the United States, tipon application of the Legislature of such State, or of the Executive when the Log- i i.-dature cannot he convinced, to call lort.h i I such number of the militia of any other State or Slates ns may be applied for, as | he may judge sufficient to sup. ' press sucli insurrection, Fly the third o..nl i/vm aI I no unmn net if nr/iVItlptl f hff*. ; "" v-,,w" v" I ~ ' | ; whenever it may he necessary, in the i judgment of the President, to use the | military force hereby directed to he called forth, the President shall forthwith, bv proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse, and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a reasonable tirno By the .act of March 3, 1807, it is pro vided " that in all cases of insurrection j or obstruction to the laws, either of the ! United States or any individual State or Territory, where it is lawful for the Presilient of the United States to call forth | the militia for the purpose of suppressing! j such insurrection, or of causing tin? laws I to be duly executed, it shall be lawful for j hiin to employ, for the same purposes, such part of the land or naval force of j the United S'atcs as shall be judged nej ccssarv, Inving first observed al! the prerequisite of the law in that respect." j This is the first occasion, so far a* the C5overninent of a Slate and its people are ! concerned, on which it has become no oessnrv to consider of the prop dot v of exI ercising these high nnrl most important 1 i constitutional and legal functions. By a : careful consideration of the above recited ! acts of Congress, your Excellency will 1 not fail to see that no power is vested in the Executive of the United States to an| ticipato insurrectionary movements against the Government of Rhode Isbtnd. I f j so as to.sanction the interposition of the military authority, but that there m is* , be an actna! insurrection, mm fested by I law h'ss assemblages of the people, or ! otherwise, to whom a proclamation may be addressed, and who may be required to j betake themselves to their respective abodes. I have, however, to assure your j Excellency that, should the time arrive I (and mv fervent prayer is that it may i never come) when an insurrection shall exist against the Government of Rhode : [slann, and a requisition shall be made upon the Executive of lb? United Stares j to furnish that protection whi.-h is guaranfed to each ?State by the Constitution (and laws, I shati not he found to shrink f from the performance of a dufv which, ' while it would he the most painful, is at j the same time the most imperative. I have also to say. that, jn such a rnnfingen -v, the Executive coU'd not look into real or supposed defects of the existing j Government, in order to ascot" ain wheth| er someothi r plan of government propnwd for adoption was better silitcd in the j wantsand more in accordance witb the ] w shes of anv portion of her ritize.x. To throw the Executive power of thig I Government into any such controversy 1 would 1)0 to make the President the armed arbitrator between the People of the ' different States and their constituted nil ' thorilies, and might lend to an usurped power, dnnacrous alike to thostahilitv of ' the State Governments and the liberties j of the People. I I?mill he m r dur*/ on llin ron'ranj. fa j resped the req*>i<i'ions of fh i' Go'ernmrnt I which has been recognised as fhe cxis'inLr Gircf.imrn'of the Stale through all lime. ! past, tinfif. I sh ill he. ad ised, in regular j manner, thai if h is hern a'lrrrd and abnlI ished, and ann'hrr substituted in its -place, i hi; legal and peaceable, proc.vc lings a fop\ id and pursued, by the authori icsjaud | people of the State. Nor can I readily bring myself to he. lievethat anvsueh contingency will a.ise as shall render the interference of this Government at all necessary. The penpie of the State of Rhode Island have been too lonj; distinguished f<>r their love j of order ami of regular government to rush into revolution, in order t ? obtain a j redress of grievances, real or supposed, ' which a Government under which their ! fnthr t;n lived in pence would n*?t in due season redress. No portion of her people will he willing to drench her fair fields j with the blond of their own brethren, in to obtain a redress of grievances which inuir cnnsiiiuieu uiiiuoriur^ <hiii?", on any length of tirne, resist, if propi-rly ap i pealed to hv the popular voice. N??ne <>i thein will So willing to sot an example, in ! the bosom of this Union, of snob frightful ; disorder, such needless convulsions of society, such danger to life, liberty, and property, and likely to bring so mueli discredit on the character of popular (rovi criimcnts. My reliance on the virtue, intelligence. and patriotism of her citizens is great and abiding and I will not doubt hut that a great of spirit of reconciliation i will prevail over rash counsels; th it ail | | actual grievances will he promptly rcdres- ! i sod by the existing (lovernment; an I that | another bright example wili he added to J | the many already prevailing among the North American Republics of change without revolution, and a redress of griev. | nnees without force or violence, i I tender to your Excellency assurances of rnv high respect and consideration. JoriN tyler. ! Washington Aran. 11, 181*2. lett kg from 3ir. u ii! pi'lr. Tj his J'lxcellencu Samlkl W. K: no, *' f (j over nor of l\h<; lr Ia'anM I ' W o trausihii to y?><u Uwc'Ic.k-v ',iC Idler of the President of (he United ^ Slates, in reply to yours ohhe 4th instant, in relation to our rmo'.utim txry movements in Ivhovie Island. You will observe with pleasure that thi? opinion of the President is firm, clear, and decided. It was expressed after a statement of facts, accompanied by a number of documents from both parties, and is iu accordance with tlie unanimous opinion of the menilnrrsof the Cabinet, and wc believe with that of every member of Congress to whom the case has been fairly stated. At the same time we observe that great and unweared pains have been taken by the insurrectionists to forestall public opinion, by loading the newspapers in the different cities with statememonts so im? hlushi'igly false, that we refer to your Excellency the expediency of adopting some mode of giving publicity to the truth. TheV represent, in most of ihe newspa. pers that have come under cu* observation, that th? party in favor of the people's constitution his a large majority of the whole people in its favor, and that a very small portion of the people have pertirw, ,i i . _ .L r i-_?J t.C cionsty aiiucrefi rr? me oiu jrceuoui i|iiaiui< cation, tliiM rendering a peacenik? nntl legal change of Government wholly irn. practicable. 7*hi* is their case, as they have caused it to lx; stated in most of the cities in llio Union. They seek to justify revolution ii|H>n the facts that a majorit y ?.f iho 2"J,(W0 voters of the State are in favor of their con-ttTnrtrmr*Ttttttiat there is no other mode of reJress than f?y revolution. Your I'jxceflertry well knows that both those statements are wholly false. That party brought every man to the pnff* who was in favor of their constitution, in order to vote against tlie leg tl constitution, in March last. The whole number of votes polled against it waa 9,600, or there about*. It is well known that at least ^ 1,000 freeholder*. vo ed against the legal | constitution, not because th< y were in i fivor of the peopled constitution, but becau*et being op|?osed to any extension of suffrage, I hey were against both constitutions. Deduct these 1,000 votes, and . there rem ain I ur 7.000 in favor of thn j people's constitution, or about one third of j the ro'ers in the Stole. Hut their case would stand upon no belter ground were their majority clear and undisputed. N t ling but necestiltf will revolution. 'Puis ih<iy admit, and therefore they attempt, in their different statements in various parts of the Union, to impress upon the public mind another jrross and malicious falsehood, which W that the freeholders refuse an extension of lilt: elective franchise ; whereas every lUiode 1*11 id man knows that there is no substantial difference between the extent of that franchise under the legal constitif| f:nn, proposed to the people by the co.iven"jT7iJ/i of freeholders, and the extent of the same franchise provided for in the peo. pies constitution; Both constitutions, a milled every native born 'white male citizen of the (Jutted States, wtiH tw?- s#eher J qualification but residence, to the elective j franchise. The legal constitution requirf ed a rcsiJenccof two years, and (ho pen. ! i ? ? : i ..c Tl,- U?,.l pie s a resilience m tmc^wi, i?*constitution admitted naturalized foreign* ers who owned a froehol I estate c?f $134 in vaijic; I!?o people's admitted thein upon ! one year's residence. We believe that tiie citizens of other ; Slates will learn w ith surprise and abhor* ' encc thai a party of men, generally, as [ ,\-e believe, orderly an I well disposed, ; hac' been organized in It'iode Island, and made Vi believe by a few selfish and am* bilious leaders, belonging some to ono^ and some to tlie other of the two political I parties, that ifi^y are r mlly and truly the in ijo. ity, andlhj' fb -v hare a ri^hf. hy : o.cc, to usurp the iToyoreignfy of the S a'o, in order to csJabh'h a principle once led by the constituted authorities, and rejected by tliern, because Ibe lxH>n p occt-dcd from a legal convention, in >tei 1 of its being tl?c work of their revo* lutionarv hands. Under the operation of such principles no Government can exist a single year. ; It is not merely revolution, but revolution ' after all the objects revolution can achieve have been attained. It is a princ pie not only subversive of a representative republican governrnant, hot fatal lo the contin ii :nee of a democracy in any and ull its lc;rru> of real or fancied pcrlection. If a revolution, based upon such prin* nit?h?s_ si ion 1,1 siim^nd in Rhode Island. tlie saint! sure law of force will inevitably prostrate every State Government in lho (Jnion; for lln. ro is not a State in the Union iii which the actual grievances of I portions of the people are not quite as numerous ami quite as groat as those complained of in the Stale of Rhode Island* JOilN WMIPPLfi. for the Committee* HVBIfS BY TUG WHOLESALE. We find in a Loudon paper the following account of the birth of six children at once* which is copied circumstantially from ilie Port Pniltp GaZ'.-tie, in the neighborhood of which place the event is stated to have occttred. 44 EXTRAORDINARY Dili Til. 44 A wosnau of the name of Terrers, living mi the district of the Grange, was brought to tied on the 31 of Jjly last, of six children at one birth; a circumstance, we suppose, unparallcd mi the records of medical history. mother is wife to an honest and industrious man I following the Lit 0 s of spiitter and fencer; is r.itlicr a small Women than otherwise. an4 . prof*8S2? to li ivc f t no more in? M'V :nien?a j ;?r vious to couii CMiOM'. tl? in iii ot / ir/ 1 Iw.f nrm. It or j J'lIC J) ijj JjL'('l) 4 lllutiior |>V .j height is five /bet foci, iin'h ?, Heir cwnp'exion, and freckled, li<*nl b uc ere#, brown Inir, ami an ineliig nt ? Apr fl?con off?CJ J?lw is 1 rv^lt by bi<t?, ejaic out m ono of MubIijII'* j and is 26' years uf age. Tiie only renurk .hie *ympfoiii cx^r .iced was in tiic growth of an inn >linitot*pj?;tit<s, ber InHtmnd h iving been ; obliged to parch ??fan extra rufion for her ono d.inng pfrgniiwf. ^:k? lirs?t taken ill op the i?l ol July, lind *>ver?l pain* during ih.t| and 16c fo lowing d y., and was iu octoai |j|w -ix een hours. The chiftir. a arc, or rather wa.c. affgir's, one liowvrer. lb* * ,* rti l /, rn. i ot.vo Jit.l afterward*. Kerfnutaly Hw poor wo.nan iiuJ tevoral uc<i'idmtdijcr s who iu.-k ';.u o! iSic little b'in:ig-n anil coipolctl I T* y