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- GLC#
- GLC05757.09-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 7, 1842
- Author/Creator
- Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854
- Title
- to Moses Norris, Jr., Thomas Chandler, Reuben Davis, Franklin Pierce, Nathan Felton, and Samuel Swasey, & others
- Place Written
- Concord, New Hampshire
- Pagination
- 1 p. : address : docket Height: 25.5 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Responds to a letter from 141 Democratic Republican members of the New Hampshire legislature and citizenry (see GLC05757.08). Thanks them for their support and accepts their invitation to speak about Rhode Island's citizen's thwarted attempt to enact a new Constitution, Equal rights and suffrage. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island.
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