The affairs of Rhode Island. A discourse delivered in the meeting-house of the First Baptist Church, Providence, May 22, 1842

by Francis Wayland

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Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1842. First Boston edition, 8vo, pp. 32; wanting wrappers; odd staining on first 3 leaves; good. Wayland, a moral philosopher, was the president of Brown University who took a dim view of Dorr's efforts to broaden suffrage. The pamphlet was summarily reviewed by John Bolles in The Affairs of Rhode Island , being a Review of President Wayland's Discourse ; a Vindication of the Sovereignty of the People, and a Refutation of the

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