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An abusive blockhead writes e letter aouSii7
US for our view Of the case OF Thomas " = pof''
winding VI with this clincher, az ne doubtless
esteems it


:. believe that Thos. Dor i mos; unrshteons!y
incarcerated al this time. believe he acted ooi's
ly in the affair but ne done nothing illegal
also believe ha; you wlll admit lhat tle Only 'o
N 5ispule vas whether the Dor Constitution haQ =
-, of rhe Iegal vor-s IN the stare east Tor II
Fl II I'D receive that number w-s II uo' u'e i1'
Let me hear that answered.


Yes. sir, YOU shall have that answered. We
do not believe the Dor instrument received eHe-
;ira Of the legal votes in tia: Sa@'e-bat tlat is
M, material. II the Dorr documenthqd received
tvo.thirds of the votes, 1t an Election called by
Committee appointed oy PFoTiteHce lo"n
Meeting, and not authorized nor recognized oy
the legal authorities OF the State, II would nave
been no Constitution at all, but the nerest waste
paper. Suppose the Tammany or the Wing 0en-
erel Committee, at the request OF Mass Meet
ing in the Park, were to notify an Election on the
!st of next month, to pass on new proposed
Charter for this City. and then to choose Offices
under that Charter, who bel!eves that such Ch@-
ter. adopted at an Election not called by legaI
authority and not authorized by law would have
anv validity whatever, no matter whether It
should receive twenty. thirty, or foFiy thousand
votes We certainly do not.


Mayor Harpe: would doubtless feel queer II he
should wake up some fine morning, and, gong
over to the Hall. find Jolly, rednosed gentle.
man in his Chair, who should inform him that a
new election OF Mayor had been held IN the Park
the last evening, whereat he OF the rosy visage
mad been chosen Mayor by clear majority (ac-
cording to their own cstimatel Of all the Leea
Voters in the City The Mayor takes Joke as
well as another man, but we suspect he would
consider this quite too funny.


We trust our correspondent and all men under
stand that VIC do no. consider majority, even o.
egal voters, competent to set aside form o.
Government except by proceeding in iega
manner. The Legislature only can call Con
vention, which nay frame Constitution anc
mat Constitution may he ADOPTED and made th'
Iaw Of the land by majority of the People
voting on it at an Election legally called-not 9th
erw-e. Nine tenlhs of our whole population as
smbIcd in mass meeting i'll the Pask. coulc
not change the Charter hair, however much
ncined to. So you are answered.


One single fact settles not merely the iilegaIity
of the Dorr instrument but the cORuiction of tina,
lllegality in the minds of the Dorr party. That
fact is the universal rally OF the Dorr party Il
vote down the legally framed Constitution, ette'
DORIS is claimed to have been adopted. /
DORIS had been adopted, voting on the ether wa
d senseless futility and absurdity,