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Introduction
In this short postscript of a letter written to William Goddard, a professor at Brown University, former governor John Brown Francis argued that political leaders should have taken the call for suffrage reform more seriously. The postscript was written shortly after the vote on the People's Constitution in late December 1841. Nearly 14,000 Rhode Islanders supported the change in government. Francis' use of the phrase the "money King" is a reference to Rhode Island Whigs, a political party that supported the interests of banking and business. The Democrat Francis believed that the Whigs were to blame for the current political turmoil.