Subject Area
History
Description
In this contextualizing essay, Dr. Erik J. Chaput and Russell DeSimone examine historical opposing views to Providence attorney Thomas Wilson Dorr and his attempt to reform the state's archaic governing structure in the spring of 1842. Chief among these views is that of former Governor John Brown Francis, who urged both sides to find a compromise with each other. The essay, along with a collection of letters it accompanies on our Dorr Rebellion Letters project site, elucidates how the moderate faction within the Law and Order party; had this moderate voice been heeded Rhode Island’s Dorr Rebellion would have turned out quite differently and that there were alternative approaches that politicians might have taken.
The Dorr Rebellion Project
http://library.providence.edu/dorr
The Dorr Letters Project
http://library.providence.edu:8080/xtf/index.html
Publisher
Providence College
Date
7-1-2014
Type
Article
Format
Text
.pdf (text searchable)
Language
English
