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Org_Event_Ography The Thomas Wilson Dorr Letters Project Encoded by Hailie D. Posey Providence College Digital Publishing Services, Phillips Memorial Library
Box 1841 Providence College, Phillips Memorial Library 1 Cunningham Square Providence, RI 02918 USA url:mailto:dps@providence.edu url:http://www.providence.edu/LIBRARY/dps/Pages/default.aspx 401-865-1517
Providence, Rhode Island 2012 This data is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License The Thomas Wilson Dorr Letters Project Letters selected, edited, and transcribed from the original manuscripts by Dr. Erik J. Chaput and Russell DeSimone with the assistance of Dr. Edward E. Andrews

Generated from data in Thomas Wilson Dorr Letters Project by Dr. Erik J. Chaput and Russell DeSimone

The Thomas Wilson Dorr Letters Project includes digital transcriptions of thirty letters from the Dorr Correspondence files in the Sidney S. Rider Collection at the John Hay Library (Brown University), the James Fowler Simmons Papers at the Library of Congress, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and one letter from the private collection of Richard Slaney . The goal of the project is to further the digital exploration of Rhode Island History through the combination of traditional scholarly editing with cutting edge digital technologies. These letters illustrate aspects of race, reform, antislavery and proslavery politics, and, of course, the Dorr Rebellion. The selection of letters was governed by the notion of what would work best in the high school and college classroom, especially in terms of length and readability. The head editors ( DeSimone and Chaput ) also selected letters that had previously not been cited by historians of the Dorr Rebellion. The project was funded in part by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

There are more than 2500 hundred letters that are known to exist that either pertain to the Dorr Rebellion and its aftermath or the early life of the rebellion’s leader Thomas Wilson Dorr . In order to keep the number of letters selected for this project to a manageable number the editors focused on Dorr’s early life (Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard University), his early law career, his political career in the mid-1830s, and his emergence as the leader of the reform movement that sought to revise Rhode Island's archaic governing structure.

In 1842 Rhode Island was torn between rival governors, separate legislative assemblies, warring militias, and two competing visions of the nature of American constitutionalism. One vision held that a majority of the people possessed the right to alter or abolish their system of government, regardless of procedures provided by the existing government; the other was predicated on the rule of law and the belief that a government could only be amended through prescribed legal means. Although relatively obscure to most Americans and many historians, Thomas Wilson Dorr's attempt at extralegal reform involved nothing less than "the fate of written constitutions," to borrow a phrase from Alabama Congressman Dixon Lewis. The rebellion was the most important domestic crisis of John Tyler's presidency. In addition, both houses of Congress and the federal judiciary weighed in on the controversy. On one side of the Rhode Island constitutional divide stood the People's Governor, Thomas Wilson Dorr, whose reform effort was predicated on the belief that the people possessed an inherent right, as Thomas Jefferson noted in the Declaration of Independence, to revise their constitutions whenever they chose. Dorr urged his followers not to rely on the court system for a redress of their grievances. He asked what if the "judges should decide that the People in a state have no right to alter or amend their institutions, without the authority of the legislature." An adverse decision would "abrogate the Declaration of Independence and the American system. On the other side stood the aptly named Law and Order Party, or the "legal party," as it was known in conservative circles. (Authored by Dr. Erik J. Chaput, 2012)

Providence College Digital Publishing Services

Phillips Memorial Library

John Hay Library

Brown University

Library of Congress

Gilder Lehrman Institute

Rhode Island Council for the Humanities

Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school founded in 1781 at .

Thomas Dorr

entered Exeter in 1817 at the age of 11 and graduated in 1819. Dorr had qualified academically to graduate from Exeter in 1818, but the headmaster and his father Sullivan agreed he should stay on another year to mature socially and to gain some additional learning. While a student at Exeter, Dorr was instrumental in founding the , the oldest surviving society at the prestigious boarding school.

Harvard College

Harvard College the oldest institution of higher learning in the was founded in 1636. ThomasDorr graduated near the top of his class in 1823 at the age of seventeen. During his time at Harvard, nearly half of Dorr's class was expelled for poor conduct. Dorr's tutor at Harvard was

George Bancroft

, who would later go on to found the Round Hill School in western where Dorr's younger brother

Sullivan, Jr.

would attend.

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Org_Event_Ography The Thomas Wilson Dorr Letters Project Encoded by Hailie D. Posey Providence College Digital Publishing Services, Phillips Memorial Library
Box 1841 Providence College, Phillips Memorial Library 1 Cunningham Square Providence, RI 02918 USA url:mailto:dps@providence.edu url:http://www.providence.edu/LIBRARY/dps/Pages/default.aspx 401-865-1517
Providence, Rhode Island 2012 This data is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License The Thomas Wilson Dorr Letters Project Letters selected, edited, and transcribed from the original manuscripts by Dr. Erik J. Chaput and Russell DeSimone with the assistance of Dr. Edward E. Andrews

Generated from data in Thomas Wilson Dorr Letters Project by Dr. Erik J. Chaput and Russell DeSimone

The Thomas Wilson Dorr Letters Project includes digital transcriptions of thirty letters from the Dorr Correspondence files in the Sidney S. Rider Collection at the John Hay Library (Brown University), the James Fowler Simmons Papers at the Library of Congress, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and one letter from the private collection of Richard Slaney . The goal of the project is to further the digital exploration of Rhode Island History through the combination of traditional scholarly editing with cutting edge digital technologies. These letters illustrate aspects of race, reform, antislavery and proslavery politics, and, of course, the Dorr Rebellion. The selection of letters was governed by the notion of what would work best in the high school and college classroom, especially in terms of length and readability. The head editors ( DeSimone and Chaput ) also selected letters that had previously not been cited by historians of the Dorr Rebellion. The project was funded in part by a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.

There are more than 2500 hundred letters that are known to exist that either pertain to the Dorr Rebellion and its aftermath or the early life of the rebellion’s leader Thomas Wilson Dorr . In order to keep the number of letters selected for this project to a manageable number the editors focused on Dorr’s early life (Philips Exeter Academy and Harvard University), his early law career, his political career in the mid-1830s, and his emergence as the leader of the reform movement that sought to revise Rhode Island's archaic governing structure.

Harvard College Harvard College the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States was founded in 1636. Thomas Dorr graduated near the top of his class in 1823 at the age of seventeen. During his time at Harvard, nearly half of Dorr 's class was expelled for poor conduct. Dorr 's tutor at Harvard was George Bancroft, who would later go on to found the Round Hill School in western Massachusetts where Dorr 's younger brother Sullivan, Jr. would attend. Phillips Exeter Academy Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school founded in 1781 at Exeter, New Hampshire. Thomas Dorr entered Exeter in 1817 at the age of 11 and graduated in 1819. Dorr had qualified academically to graduate from Exeter in 1818, but the headmaster and his father Sullivan agreed he should stay on another year to mature socially and to gain some additional learning. While a student at Exeter, Dorr was instrumental in founding the Golden Branch Society, the oldest surviving society at the prestigious boarding school. An anti suffrage newspaper published in Providence. Joseph M. Church was the publisher and editor. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was a monthly periodical edited by Thomas Dorr ’s friend John L. O’Sullivan. This periodical, published in New York City from 1837 to 1859, espoused the principles of Jacksonian democracy. During the period of the rebellion it published articles sympathetic to the Rhode Island suffrage cause including a short sketch of Thomas Dorr in its series “Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil.” the Locofoco Party A reference to the Locofoco faction of the Democratic Party which espoused radical methods for achieving reform. Brown University John Hay Library Library of Congress Gilder Lehrman Institute Phillips Memorial Library Providence College Digital Publishing Services Rhode Island Council for the Humanities In 1842 Rhode Island was torn between rival governors, separate legislative assemblies, warring militias, and two competing visions of the nature of American constitutionalism. One vision held that a majority of the people possessed the right to alter or abolish their system of government, regardless of procedures provided by the existing government; the other was predicated on the rule of law and the belief that a government could only be amended through prescribed legal means. Although relatively obscure to most Americans and many historians, Thomas Wilson Dorr's attempt at extralegal reform involved nothing less than "the fate of written constitutions," to borrow a phrase from Alabama Congressman Dixon Lewis. The rebellion was the most important domestic crisis of John Tyler's presidency. In addition, both houses of Congress and the federal judiciary weighed in on the controversy. On one side of the Rhode Island constitutional divide stood the People's Governor, Thomas Wilson Dorr, whose reform effort was predicated on the belief that the people possessed an inherent right, as Thomas Jefferson noted in the Declaration of Independence, to revise their constitutions whenever they chose. Dorr urged his followers not to rely on the court system for a redress of their grievances. He asked what if the "judges should decide that the People in a state have no right to alter or amend their institutions, without the authority of the legislature." An adverse decision would "abrogate the Declaration of Independence and the American system. On the other side stood the aptly named Law and Order Party, or the "legal party," as it was known in conservative circles. (Authored by Dr. Erik J. Chaput, 2012)