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

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

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.

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.

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.  $65

The covers->
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