New Hampshire legislators to Thomas W. Dorr

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GLC#
GLC05757.08-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
6 December 1842
Author/Creator
New Hampshire legislators
Title
to Thomas W. Dorr
Place Written
Concord, New Hampshire
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 30.5 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

The 141 undersigned Democratic Republican members of the New Hampshire legislature (including Franklin Pierce) and other citizens convey their support for Rhode Island's illegitimate Governor Dorr: "We think that the principles for which you have contended though as yet unsuccessful, are the fundamental principles of Republican Government." They ask him to speak at the Old North Church in Concord on 14 December 1842. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island. See GLC05757.09 for his response.

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