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CASE OF MR. DORR.-It ought be fully under. stood in what situation Mir. Dorr is placed. if he a'ails himself to the resolution adopted by the Gene ral Assembly He would be restored to liberty with out the rights of citizenship. His oath could not be taken in n conrt of justce-he could not vote or be appointed to any office, that of constabIe II the effects of his would b. in as iuI force except 'mprisonment as they would be without the resolution As to rights he would stand low CT than the lowest 'hsh market loaier." His adversar ries allow hun to be honest in his opinions and in the Course he has pursued Could they expect an hones | high-m'nded man would snbm, tic degredation they would put upon hml Could they expect s,cl, a man would accep, of liberation and coue forth into the community object oi pity his friends nnd de- riSion to his enemies! What is freedom under these circumstances! .r . ... .,.t q-.f f The action, far from being meroifu, exhibits ruth CT feeling of undyng hostility and levenge. " by should Mir Dorr accept liberty from ir hands when they strip him of all those rights which render l liberty desirable. He who has been the means of giving to more than nine thousand of his fellow ciri- gems the highly prized and nestmable r,ght of exsr- cisipg the elective franchise. be deprived of that right himself. What say these men to this2 Are they satisfied withlthe resultl The man, he he a member of the General Assembly or moi, who asserts that they have extended the same mercy to him that tey have to others. and that nothing is requ ed oi him than of others, asserts what he must know to be gross fasehoOd. Mir. Dorr has suffered i,n- pr'sonmenl for more than eighteen months, nearly e'sh. months oi which, under his sentence, has been

 

 who has accepted of the mercy of rulers has been so punisedl Not one! |, :. .. .-5.ll ala- /. Is imprisonment nothng-s the loss of civil rights noIhng-llat men should boast of their even ban Jed justice! Is it not evident that they are desirous merely of pretext to deceive the public-thal they have bored only to gain plausibity to their of re- peated falsehood, that "Mr. Dorr is self upfison- ed man! IL is evideat thai the reso lution adop- ted by them is m, re subieriuge-that they would grant only such terms they supposed he would re- fuse to accept! And their object is to keep alive a hostile feeling III the community for the sake of rre- serving their political existence as 'tLaw and Or der parly." They may be disappointed. but would not be surprising if Mr. Dorr should f, st await the etnts of his friends in his behalf, before he decides Il Providence Gazette. 1l ,4sI lo 4..l. t..it. lt IS now certain, says the Pennsy lvanian, that Governor Dorr will decline 10 avail himself to the degrading conditions of the act of Assembly. On the 2oh inst. a petition from Sullivan Dorr, for leave [, make visits to his son, and that Dr.. Parsons Gov. Dorrs former physician, he permitted to attend him d"r'ns his sickness, was referred to the Committee on % the !ndicary. The petition sets forth that Gov. Dor will not consider il consistent with his honor ana integrity to comply wmh the conditions on which ms release Is preferred by the Legslature-that his "'T ahu confinement are fast tending to destroy his "e"hh an" n'i"g him the graye and asks the pri ''Nse .oove na'ned as the only available means oi ''oo'nng ms passage way his fm,i resting place.

 