Algerine Law

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Providence? : 1842. Broadside approx. 12½ x 7½ , text in double column; trimmed, small hole affecting letters in 3 words sense remains clear ; very good. The Algerine Law, passed by the Rhode Island Legislature in early April 1842, imposed severe penalties upon those attempting to exercise power or hold office under Dorr's People's Constitution of 1841. This broadside consists of an attack on the Dorrite David Parmenter, an attorney in Providence, for having been

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