The Middlebury People's Press

Rhode Island and Gov. Hubbard.

We publish in the preceding columns, as a part of the history of the times, the letter of Governor Hubbard, of New Hampshire, to Samuel W. King, acting as the Gov. of Rhode Island. in answer to a requisition for the surrender of T. W. Dorr, the hero of the Boundary, the Arsenal, and of Chepachet, charged with the crime of treason against the State of Rhode Island The constitution of the United States expressly declares that a person charged with treason, felony, or other crime' in one State and fleeing to another, shall be delivered up on the requisition of the Governor of the former. This is precisely the case which has occurred. Dorr is so charged with treason and demanded, yet Gov. Hubbard not only refuses to surrender him, but insultingly tells Gov. King that he is a usurper, and that Dorr is the rightful Governor of Rhode Island! In taking this course Governor Hubbard places himself directly in hostility to the very first principle of American international policy. It has long been our avowed rule to intermeddle not at all with the domestic concerns of other communities, but to regard inflexibly the Government in fact of any country as the Government of right. This great American principle Gov. Hubbard repudiates, and proceeds to inquire into and settle the claims of conflicting Governments in Rhode Island, deciding that the Government which is acknowledged and obeyed over every foot of her soil is not the Government, but that the State sovereignty is embodied in one T. W. Dorr, who has twice run away from its soil as fast as his legs could carry him—who had been hiding in grog-shops and by-places for months, until taken under the protecting wing of New Hampshire, and whose rule is now obeyed on a single foot square of the earth's surface! If Gov. Hubbard's course is correct, it is high time we ceased condemning and ridiculing the seeming absurdities of the devotees of Legitimacy and the Divine Right' in Europe! Let the partisans of Don Carlos, Don Miguel, and the Duke of Bordeaux take courage! Gov. Hubbard advances to their rescue! Tribune.