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Introduction
In this letter to Dutee Pearce, Thomas Dorr, certainly exalted from the overwhelming support citizens gave the People’s Constitution just a few weeks before, is however leery of challenges that might arise in the Rhode Island General Assembly. Dorr references U.S. Circuit Court Judge John Pitman and Brown University Professor William Giles Goddard, staunch conservatives deeply opposed to efforts of the Suffrage Association. Dorr, however, believes that the two men had at one point earlier in the century supported free suffrage. Samuel Atwell, a pro-suffrage representative from Glocester, had introduced a bill to terminate the Charter government.