1842 BROADSIDE: A PROCLAMATION: SAMUEL KING AS GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND DURING THE DORR REBELLION
1842 BROADSIDE: A PROCLAMATION: SAMUEL KING AS GOVERNOR OF RHODE ISLAND DURING THE DORR REBELLION
KING, Samuel Ward, Governor, Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, published this scarce broadside: A Proclamation: containing President Tyler’s Letter of April 11, 1842, with his assurance that the United States would continue to recognize “the existing Government of the State” as the lawful government “until I shall be advised in regular manner, that it has been altered and abolished, and another substituted in its place, by legal and peaceable proceedings" despite the claims of Thomas Dorr and his “People’s Constitution.”
Proclamation is followed in print by letter by John Whipple, leader of the anti-Dorr Party, a warning that, if the Dorrites succeed, "the same sure law of force will inevitably prostrate every State Government in the Union."
Tabloid sheet of wove stock (13 by 20 inches). Woodcut illustration of Rhode Island seal, with the word 'Hope' printed at head of title. Some spotting otherwise in excellent condition.