Download or read book The Dorr Rebellion written by Marvin E. Gettleman and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1973 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The People s Martyr written by Erik J. Chaput and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1840s Rhode Island, the state’s seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Thomas Wilson Dorr’s failed attempt to rectify that situation through constitutional reform ultimately led to an armed insurrection that was quickly quashed—and to a stiff sentence for Dorr himself. Nevertheless, as Erik Chaput shows, the Dorr Rebellion stands as a critical moment of American history during the two decades of fractious sectional politics leading up to the Civil War. This uprising was the only revolutionary republican movement in the antebellum period that claimed the people’s sovereignty as the basis for the right to alter or abolish a form of government. Equally important, it influenced the outcomes of important elections throughout northern states in the early 1840s and foreshadowed the breakup of the national Democratic Party in 1860. Through his spellbinding and engaging narrative, Chaput sets the rebellion in the context of national affairs—especially the abolitionist movement. While Dorr supported the rights of African Americans, a majority of delegates to the “People’s Convention” favored a whites-only clause to ensure the proposed constitution’s passage, which brought abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and Abby Kelley to Rhode Island to protest. Meanwhile, Dorr’s ideology of the people’s sovereignty sparked profound fears among Southern politicians regarding its potential to trigger slave insurrections. Drawing upon years of extensive archival research, Chaput’s book provides the first scholarly biography of Dorr, as well as the most detailed account of the rebellion yet published. In it, Chaput tackles issues of race and gender and carries the story forward into the 1850s to examine the transformation of Dorr’s ideology into the more familiar refrain of popular sovereignty. Chaput demonstrates how the rebellion’s real aims and significance were far broader than have been supposed, encompassing seemingly conflicting issues including popular sovereignty, antislavery, land reform, and states’ rights. The People’s Martyr is a definitive look at a key event in our history that further defined the nature of American democracy and the form of constitutionalism we now hold as inviolable.
Download or read book Thomas Dorr s Response to Whig Accusations During the Dorr Rebellion Approximately 1842 written by Thomas Wilson Dorr and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the third person and signed Gov. Dorr at the top of the page. Responds to accusations in Whig newspapers that he is one of the most pusillanimous cowards in existence and is about to descend upon Rhode Island with a military force. Compares Dorr to Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island. Penciled note on the verso indicates the document is written in Dorr's hand.
Download or read book The Dorr War written by Arthur May Mowry and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Rhode Island in 1842 as Connected with the Dorr Rebellion written by Elisha Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raucous Years in Rhode Island 1842 1844 written by Margaret Bingham Stillwell and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dorr War written by George M. Dennison and published by Lexington : University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1976 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Dorr to Millard Low Miller Forwarding Documents and Insisting on His Support for the People s Constitution 25 June 1842 written by Thomas Wilson Dorr and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governor Dorr encloses a proclamation and general order (see GLC05757.04 and GLC05757.05) to be published without delay in the Daily Express, the Herald, or some other paper. Rejects the insinuation in an editorial in the Express that he might be persuaded to abandon the People's Constitution. Discusses suffrage, comments I know of no way to abrogate it, except by a majority of the whole People, and asks: Has the Express abandoned the cause of the People. Millard, Low, & Miller published the Daily Express. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island.
Download or read book General Orders 25 June 1842 written by Thomas Wilson Dorr and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governor Dorr sent this order with a letter (see GLC05757.03) to Millard, Low, & Miller, publishers of the Daily Express. Orders the mobilization of volunteer forces. It has become the duty of all our citizenship who believe that the People are sovereign, and have a right to make and alter their forms of government, now to sustain by all necessary means, the Constitution adopted by the People of this State, and the Government elected under the same. Several edits. Dorr, then an illegitimate governor, led the Dorr Rebellion over suffrage rights in Rhode Island.
Download or read book To the Public Regarding Dorr s Rebellion 19 March 1842 written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadside regarding Dorr's Rebellion, issued to clear up deception regarding Reverend William Balch's stance supporting Dorr.
Download or read book Verses Written After the Dorr War 1842 written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account in verse of the Dorr Rebellion of 1842, written in obvious sympathy with the Dorrite cause, the first two lines reading "Now to Rhode Island doth belong The lofty strains of Dogrel song". The authorship is unknown, and no other source for the text, published or unpublished, is known to exist. The title is written on p. [1], the recto of the first leaf, of which the bottom half has been torn away, possibly taking with it the author's name. The verses themselves occupy p. [3]-[44]; p. [45]-[52] contain "The house that Bowen built", a parody of "The house that Jack built" satirizing the Beecher-Tilton affair, with note at end "from Daily Graphic"; this piece, by W.A. Croffut, was printed in The daily graphic for 27 Apr. 1875, p. 426. The "Verses" and "The house that Bowen built" were clearly written by the same hand using the same pen and ink, and the present text therefore probably dates from 1875, but historical details and strong feelings expressed in the "Verses" suggest composition by a close observer or participant, in or shortly after 1842; that is, the "Verses" were quite probably transcribed from an earlier manuscript.
Download or read book The Dorr Rebellion an Overview written by Russell J. DeSimone and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Truth Or Review of a Circular On Dorr s Rebellion Approximately 1842 written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarding Dorr's Rebellion. Title continued: ...addressed to the electors of the Western Congressional District on upcoming election.
Download or read book Report of the Trial of Thomas Wilson Dorr for Treason Against the State of Rhode Island written by Joseph Story Pitman and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Concise History of the Efforts to Obtain an Extension of Suffrage in Rhode Island written by Jacob Frieze and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Concise History of the Efforts to Obtain an Extension of Suffrage In Rhode Island From the Year 1811 to 1842 written by Jacob Frieze and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Right and Might written by Joyce M. Botelho and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
