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Letter
Glocester June 25th, 42
Messers Millard, Low & Miller,
Enclosed are a
Proclamation and General Orders which I request you
to publish without delay. If you cannot do
this please transfer the same to the Herald, or to
some othe person, who will get them into general circu-
lation, through an extra. I pray of you not
to treat me again as in your paper of Thursday ‸ or yesterday
in which you intimate that some members of the
Algerine Assembly will induce me to give up the
Constitution. You must entertain a poor opinion of
me to make such statements as these. Believing the
People’s Constitution to be rightfully made, I know of
no way to abrogate it, except by a majority of the
whole People.
Is it possible that any considerable
number of suffrage men in Providence can be induced
to surrender their Constitution, and to barter away their
liberty & other rights of their brethren who have borne
the burden and heat of the day, by the mere call of a
Convention, which excludes a large portion of their fellow citizens
from the choice of delegates. Has the Express
abandoned the cause of the People? This might
be inferred from the additional article of today. I trust
our men will remain true to their cause. If they do, it
will succeed.
Yours Truly,
T. W. Dorr