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- GLC#
- GLC05757.04-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 25 June 1842
- Author/Creator
- Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854
- Title
- State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. A Proclamation by the Governor of the Same.
- Place Written
- Rhode Island
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 25.2 cm, Width: 19.6 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Governor Dorr sent this proclamation with a letter (see GLC05757.03) to Millard, Low, & Miller, publishers of the Daily Express. Instructs the General Assembly to meet at Gloucester, Rhode Island, on 4 July 1842 instead of at Providence. Also requests that "the towns and districts, in which vacancies may have occurred, by the resignation of Representatives or Senators, to proceed forth with to supply this Same by new elections, according to the provisions of the [People's] Constitution." Several edits. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island.
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