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		Dorr and his followers, the "Dorrites," proposed that all white men be eligible to vote regardless of financial status as long as they were residents of Rhode Island for at least one year.
		Dorr was undeterred by his critics, and marched with 60 of his followers to the local armory and easily seized it.
		Dorr was captured and sentenced to life in jail, and it appeared that the government won.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester1/111100/111100kevdorr.html (828 words)

	Dorr, Thomas Wilson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		1805–54, leader of Dorr’s Rebellion (1842) in Rhode Island, b.
		Early in 1842 both Dorr’s followers and the charter government forces elected and organized governments, Dorr heading one and Samuel H. King the other.
		The harshness of the sentence was widely condemned, and in 1845 Dorr, broken in health, was released.
	www.bartleby.com /65/do/Dorr-Tho.html (428 words)

	Rhode Island History: Chapter 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thomas Wilson Dorr, a patrician attorney, assumed the leadership of the movement in late 1841 and became the principal draftsman of the progressive People's Constitution, which was ratified in a popular referendum in December 1841.
		Dorr was elected governor under this document in April 1842.
		The turmoil and popular agitation against the charter, which produced the Dorr Rebellion, forced the victors to consent to the drafting of a written state constitution.
	www.rilin.state.ri.us /studteaguide/RhodeIslandHistory/chapt4.html (1245 words)

	1833-1849: The Dorr Rebellion \| libcom.org
		Dorr led a fiasco of an attack on the state arsenal, his cannon misfiring.
		Dorr’s arrest was ordered by the regular governor, and he went into hiding outside the state, trying to raise military support.
		When Dorr returned to Rhode Island, he found several hundred of his followers, mostly working people, willing to fight for the People’s Constitution, but there were thousands in the regular militia on the side of the state.
	libcom.org /history/1833-1849-the-dorr-rebellion (889 words)

	Joseph Story on Dorr Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dorr had the sagacity to see this, and he scouted the idea of submitting his case to the Supreme Court of the United States, though you have intimated the contrary.
		But Dorr found friends in New York and Connecticut, and sympathizers in Massachusetts, and was again encouraged to summon his men to arms, and to form his camp at Chepatchet.
		The cant of democracy may here varnish over the crimes of rebellion and treason, but, in that day when the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed, the crimes of unprincipled ambition will receive their merited punishment.
	www.potowmack.org /dorrpit2.html (7391 words)

	Dorr's Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dorr's Rebellion, named for its leader, Thomas W. Dorr, was directed against the government of Rhode Island, which was still operating under the charter of 1663.
		On May 18 Dorr and a contingent of followers unsuccessfully attempted to seize a state armory.
		In 1843 Dorr was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was fully pardoned after serving one year.
	www.usahistory.com /wars/dorr.htm (134 words)

	Dorr Township, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dorr Township is a civil township of Allegan County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
		It was platted in 1872 by Alfred Chapple.
		North Dorr is a tiny hamlet at 42°46′06″N, 85°45′42″W straddling the boundary between Dorr Township in Allegan County and Byron Township in Kent County.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorr_Township,_Michigan (559 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 385, DORR REBELLION: Library of Economics and Liberty
		DORR REBELLION (IN), an effort made in 1840-42, to overturn the state government of Rhode Island by revolutionary means.
		Thomas W. Dorr, of Providence, a member of the assembly, took the lead in the effort to obtain a more extended suffrage, but the legal voters and their representatives were equally obstinate, and Dorr's proposition received only seven votes out of 70.
		Dorr then resorted to mass meetings through the winter of 1840-41, as an indication of popular feeling, and finally to a convention of delegates, which met in October, 1841, prepared a constitution, and submitted it to a popular vote.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy385.html (631 words)

	The GENE Shed - Thomas Wilson Dorr
		Dorr was unable to vote at the general election and hence soontook the lead in the struggle to amend the charter or frame a newState Constitution, granting more liberal suffrage.
		Dorr collected his forces, and on the evening of the 18May 1842, made an armed attempt to seize the state Arsenal atProvidence, which was thwarted by the appearance of the troops,commanded by Governor King in person.
		Dorr reached the village of Chepachet, a small hamlet tenmiles from Providence, in the Town of Gloucester, he was met by anenthusiastic crowd of his adherents, who acclaimed him as theirrightful Governor and informed him that the mass of the people wereprepared to fight for their rights under his leadership.
	deckernet.com /Genealogy/DeckerGenealogy/5558.htm (6679 words)

	Luther v. Borden
		Thomas Dorr, the leader of the rebellion, was captured, convicted of treason, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
		Dorr unsuccessfully sought relief on a writ of habeas corpus (see Ex Parte Dorr, 1845), although be was later pardoned and released During the fracas, Borden, a member of the state militia under the charter government, broke into the home of Luther, a supporter of the Dorr movement.
		Dorr was the head, Congress was not called upon to decide the controversy.
	www.wku.edu /Government/yborden.htm (1089 words)

	Glocester Heritage Society - Dr. Reuben Mason House
		During the Dorr Rebellion in 1842, the Reuben Mason House was designated by the State Militia to be a field hospital, in all probability for the state troops who were marching from Greenville, Scituate, and Woonsocket.
		Dorr and his supporters actually held a constitutional convention to pass a new constitution for Rhode Island with expanded voting rights.
		Dorr, however, was a pacifist and urged his supporters to disband before the troops arrived, which they did.
	www.glocesterheritagesociety.org /reubenmasonhouse.htm (1911 words)

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		Sullivan Dorr (1778-1858) was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Ebenezer (1739-1809) and Abigail (Cummingham) Dorr (1762-1796).
		Dorr made a failed attempt to take over the State Arsenal and failed in his attempt to convene a General Assembly.
		Dorr was released in 1845 due to a legislative act that freed all prisoners sentenced for treason.
	www.rihs.org /mssinv/Mss390.htm (926 words)

	Town of Glocester, RI: Places To See
		Dorr eventually surrendered, was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason, but was released within a few years as a result of public outcry.
		A monument to Dorr's memory was erected at Acote's Hill in 1912.
		Thomas Dorr made the tavern his headquarters and issued a proclamation that the RI General Assembly should meet there on July 4, 1842.
	www.glocesterri.org /places.htm (2156 words)

	Thomas Wilson Dorr - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Dorr, Thomas Wilson 1805-54, leader of Dorr's Rebellion (1842) in Rhode Island, b.
		Since the ruling conservatives were deaf to pleas for reform, Dorr's party called a constitutional convention (Oct., 1841).
		In May, Dorr resorted to a show of arms.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Dorr-Tho.html (491 words)

	University Libraries > What's New > Exhibit: Thomas Wilson Dorr 1805-1854
		While the suffrage movement culminated in open rebellion that ultimately failed; several months after the close of the rebellion Rhode Island’s Charter government adopted a written constitution incorporating most of the provisions that Dorr sought to establish.
		Dorr was tried in 1844 for treason against the state, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
		Dorr Hall on campus is named in his honor.
	www.uri.edu /library/new/dorr.html (261 words)

	Our History
		The mounting struggle for power prompted Governor King to order a general call to arms to quell "Dorr's rebellion." King's forces marched toward Chepachet to do battle with Dorr's troops who were entrenched atop Acote's Hill (now Acote's Cemetery located just 1/4 mile south on Route 44).
		When Dorr's men inside pointed their muskets in return, King's troops backed off.
		As the tavernkeeper, Jedediah Sprague, jumped out a window to defend his establishment, words were exchanged, tempers flared higher, and one of King's soldiers fired a shot through the keyhole of the locked door.
	www.stagecoachtavern.com /ourhistory.htm (728 words)

	Quahog.org: Grave of Governor Thomas Wilson Dorr
		Dorr was elected to the state legislature in 1834, where he fought for the liberalization of the state's suffrage laws.
		The Dorr Rebellion was quickly and bloodlessly suppressed (unless you count the cow that was accidentally shot).
		Even so, Dorr was tried and convicted of treason in 1844—one of only two such successful prosecutions at a state level in US history (the other was that of John Brown in Virginia).
	www.quahog.org /attractions/index.php?id=54 (509 words)

	A Civics Lesson: John Kerry, Treason, and Free Speech,p8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dorr, who had been the governor under the 'people's' constitution, was tried and convicted of treason against the State in early 1844.
		I have decided to cover it at length here because the rebellion and opposition to the government's policies were more widespread and serious than during any other war.
		They were part of a rebellion that literally had torn the country apart.
	members.cox.net /hwilkerson/web/p8.html (3708 words)

	Benjamin Hallett, Supreme Court Arguments in Luther v. Borden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I know that this has been slurred as the "Dorr rebellion," and held up to moral condemnation as a mere riotous attempt of lawless men to seize upon and plunder the public property, and to overturn the government by force, without the forms of law.
		By an act of the Legislature, Governor Dorr was required to take possession of and cause the public property to be delivered to the proper authorities and officers acting under the constitution and laws of the State.
		Shay's Rebellion, the Whisky Insurrection, and the Anti-Rent Riots in New York, illustrate this; and this was the relation of government and people before the Revolution.
	www.potowmack.org /dorrhall.html (17734 words)

	United Train of Artillery History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And the cannon played a central role in the drama of the Dorr Rebellion, an event that advanced the cause of democracy in Rhode Island.
		At the time they were stuffed to the muzzle with gunpowder and iron, their barrels trained on the state arsenal in Providence, where a well-stocked militia was prepared to return fire.
		As historian Arthur May Mowry wrote in The Dorr War (Preston and Rounds Co., 1901): "In a dense fog, with less than 200 men, with two cannon, almost without ammunition, the order is given to fire on a building, built of stone, stocked with guns, powder, and ball, and fully guarded.
	www.unitedtrainofartillery.org /cannon.htm (2140 words)

	The Murder of Amasa Sprague
		Thomas Wilson Dorr was of Irish descent whose grandfather had left Ireland in time to take part in the American Revolution, even riding with Paul Revere on his famous excursion.
		Thomas Dorr was well educated and early on got involved in state politics.
		The Dorr rebellion was put down and its leader was placed in prison.
	www.ilstu.edu /~ftmorn/cjhistory/casestud/amasa.html (1390 words)

	Voting Rights and the Dorr Rebellion
		Prior to the 1840's, several unsuccessful attempts were made to replace the charter with a new state constitution that provided broader voting rights.
		When efforts to implement the referendum were opposed by the conservative Charterite government, Dorr and his followers attempted to implement it by force.
		Thomas Dorr disbanded the rebel forces and fled the state.
	www.woonsocket.org /dorrwar.html (530 words)

	Projo.com \| Providence \| Northwest
		The historical society hopes to make the house into a museum about the Thomas Dorr rebellion of 1842 -- a battle that made the extension of voting rights a dominant issue in Rhode Island.
		Dorr's lawyer was from the area and a large number of people who supported Dorr worked on the local farms, according to Edna Kent, a Glocester historian.
		Kent said Benjamin Keach, who was one of Dorr's supporters and possibly occupied the house during the rebellion, gave the opposition forces a hardy welcome.
	www.projo.com /northwest/content/projo_20031231_gmason31.3281be.html (719 words)

	The New Revolution
		This was the Shays Rebellion, which put a fright into the Founding Fathers, especially as it led to uprisings in Maryland, South Carolina, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
		That rebellion persuaded the Founding Fathers that a strong central government was needed to maintain law and order against unruly dissidents, slave rebels, and Indians.
		The capitalist class was frightened by how much power the working class had been able to muster in the separate colonies and they could see from the Shays rebellion that the people were quite capable of rebelling against the wealthy class when it seized their hard-earned lands, crops, and animals.
	www.hermes-press.com /new_revolution.htm (6459 words)

	Thomas Wilson Dorr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Wilson Dorr (November 5, 1805 – December 27, 1854) was a U.S. lawyer and political figure.
		In 1842, two elections were held in Rhode Island under both Dorr's constitution and the existing state charter.
		The Dorr Rebellion was quickly crushed and Dorr fled the state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Wilson_Dorr (291 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 265, TREASON: Library of Economics and Liberty
		As it is, most of the states have inserted in their constitutions a provision that "treason against the state of—shall consist only in levying war, etc.," following the constitution of the United States.
		All men have now had fair warning, as Jefferson Davis had not in 1860, that the Union is not "voluntary," so long as the nation is determined to maintain it; and that any attempt to break it up is treason to the United States, even if it is obedience to a state.
		It might be that a future rebellion would be suppressed with a similar generous forbearance from ultimate vengeance; but the chance is an uncommonly small one.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy1035.html (894 words)

	Training for Democracy
		The Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island in 1841-1843 was led by Thomas Dorr, a lawyer from a well-to-do family.
		The "official" governor of Rhode Island requested federal assistance to put down the rebellion and President John Tyler sent in federal troops to quash the uprising.
		Dorr was convicted of treason and spent twenty months in jail before being pardoned.
	www.hermes-press.com /demtran2.htm (3780 words)

	uprisings \| libcom.org
		The rebellion was crushed by Red Army troops under Trotsky's command.
		A brief history of a successful general strike and rebellion in Barcelona.
		Drafting their own “People’s Convention” the rebels were let down by some of their own ideas, such as racism, and were put down by force.
	libcom.org /tags/uprisings?page=2 (327 words)

	New Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1847 the separate Township of Dorr was created by an act of the legislature.
		The name is supposed to be derived from the principal in Dorr's (Rhode Island) Rebellion.
		The first settlers arrived in 1845, and the unincorporated villages of Dorr Center and Moline were started about 1856 and 1870, respectively.
	www.allegancounty.org /townships/Dorr/index.htm (120 words)

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