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- GLC#
- GLC04161
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- March 1842
- Author/Creator
- King, Samuel Ward, 1786-1851
- Title
- [A proclamation by Samuel Ward King]
- Place Written
- Rhode Island
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 50.5 cm, Width: 30.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Contains a brief introduction by King as Governor, Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Includes a reprinted letter by President John Tyler stating that he cannot get involved (by raising a militia) with rising tensions in Rhode Island unless there is an actual insurrection. Also includes a reprinted letter from John Whipple discussing the People's Constitution (Dorr's constitution) and the "legal constitution" of Rhode Island.
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