Item #55329 An appeal to honest suffrage and laboring men. Fellow citizens - Living as we do in the same small community. A Rhode Island Man.

An appeal to honest suffrage and laboring men. Fellow citizens - Living as we do in the same small community...

[Providence? publisher not identified], 1844.]. Large folio broadside (approx. 24½" x 17½"), text in quadruple column under the running head; a few short tears and wrinkling in the margins, some show-through from an old ink notation on the verso, but overall very good. A pro-Law and Order broadside containing a lengthy letter addressed to "Fellow Citizens," and signed "A Rhode-Island Man," attacking members of Rhode Island General Assembly who asked Congress to uphold the Dorrite's People's Constitution, and calling for a protective tariff. It also prints "Resolutions of Censure" upon them by the General Assembly and reprints a Providence Journal article entitled: "Fraudulent voters for the Algerine constitution." Brown only in OCLC. DeSimone & Schofield 21 (adding R.I. Historical). Not in American Imprints, Bartlett, or Sabin. Item #55329

Price: $800.00

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