In General Assembly of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, at a special session held at Providence, on the 29th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourty-four. Protest and declaration of the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations against any inference by the Congress, or by the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States with the internal government and the Constitution of said state
[Providence: publisher not identified, 1844.]. Three quarto pages on two sheets (once a bifolium, now split at the joint), printed on thin blue paper; 3 top corners chipped, affecting a few letters; all else very good. Protests the attempt of Democratic members of Rhode Island legislature to have Congress investigate the Rhode Island government and enforce the People's (Dorrite) Constitution. Claims that 26 legislators are in violation of their oaths: Samuel Steere, Olney Ballou, Otis Wood, Cyrus Brown, Levi C. Eaton, George C. Carr, Anson Potter, Isaac Wilkinson, Eddy Keech, Gladding O. Thompson, Adams Park, James Angell, Cyrus Farnum, Williams Steere, David Wilbour, James Harkness, Pardon Angell, William Smith, Thomas Buffum, Ariel Ballou, Fenner Brown, William Latham, Joseph T. Sisson, Jonathan Cole, Niles Westcott, and Richard Mowry. Signed in type on p. [3]: Henry Bowen, sec'ry. Brown and AAS in OCLC. Not in American Imprints or Sabin. Item #55317
Price: $375.00
