Dorr's Rebellion

He pronounced his treatment of Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island as "worthy of all praise," and his management of the public funds as "remarkably cautious, exact and particular."

Dorr's "rebellion" in Rhode Island, by which T.W.

The result of this hostility of the propertied classes was a rising in 1840 of the workingmen in what is slurringly misdescribed in conventional history as "Dorr's Rebellion,"—an event the real history of which has not as yet been told.

It trampled beneath its feet the broad seal of the State of New Jersey, and encouraged Dorr's rebellion.

Then Dorr's Rebellion, almost culminating in bloodshed, brought about a reform in 1843 which introduced a slight tax-paying qualification as an alternative to the freehold.