to Millard, Low, & Miller

Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854 to Millard, Low, & Miller

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GLC#
GLC05757.03-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
25 June 1842
Author/Creator
Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854
Title
to Millard, Low, & Miller
Place Written
Gloucester, Rhode Island
Pagination
2 p. : address ; Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 19.6 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Governor Dorr encloses a proclamation and general order (see GLC05757.04 and GLC05757.05) to be published "without delay" in the Daily Express, the Herald, or some other paper. Rejects the insinuation in an editorial in the Express that he might be persuaded to abandon the People's Constitution. Discusses suffrage, comments "I know of no way to abrogate it, except by a majority of the whole People," and asks: "Has the Express abandoned the cause of the People." Millard, Low, & Miller published the Daily Express. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island.

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