To members of the General Assembly of Rhode-Island. Friends and fellow-citizens... drop title

by John Pitman, Judge of U. S. District Court

$175 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Providence: publisher not identified, 1842. . First edition, 8vo, pp. 24; stitching broken, some toning, else very good. Apparently two issues were printed, this with one less line on the first page, but the text is identical. An anti-Dorr tract which describes Dorrites as an unrepresentative faction. The constitutional and historical issues are well presented. Originally a supporter of the extension of suffrage, Pitman, a Federal district judge, changed his

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