[Rarebooks] FS: The Dorr Rebellion & Suffrage in Rhode Island - 1879 Reprint of 1842 Pamphlet

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: Considerations on the Rhode Island Question. Considerations of 
the Questions of the Adoption of a Constitution and Extension of 
Suffrage in Rhode Island.

By Elisha R. Potter.
Published in Central Falls, Rhode island by E.L. Freeman & Co., State 
Printers, in 1879.

DISCUSSION: A re-issue of this interesting pamphlet, originally printed 
in Boston in 1842 in the aftermath of the Dorr Rebellion, which had 
sought to change the Rhode Island Constitution to allow many of its 
citizens to vote. As it entered the 1840s, Rhode Island's Constitution 
was still based on its 1663 colonial charter that required a man to own 
property to vote. The six-week rebellion, which featured misfiring 
cannon, a single death (of a bystander) and two rival governments, led 
to modest reforms- American born men no longer had to be property owners 
to vote, but immigrants still did, and of course the subject of women 
never came up at all. Elisha Reynolds Potter (1811-1882) was a 
conservative Rhode Island politician who had served on the Rhode Island 
Supreme Court, and this pamphlet is regarded as one of the more 
scholarly attempts to show that limiting the franchise to 
property-owning men was actually the most democratic form of government 
imaginable.

DESCRIPTION & CONDITION NOTES: Softcover. 5.5"x8.5", 63 pages. Corner of 
cover torn off, front cover edges a little chipped, break along the 
hinge, rear cover and spine perished, title page corner chipped, minor 
soil. Very fragile.

PRICE: $65-

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