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                        <surname>Woodbury</surname></persName>: an Electronic Transcription</title>
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                    TWD to Woodbury
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                <titlePart type="main">The Dorr Letters Project</titlePart>
                <titlePart type="subtitle">Thomas Wilson Dorr to Levi Woodbury:<lb/>Electronic Transcription</titlePart>
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                <p>In mid-<date when="1842-04">April 1842</date>, rumors began to circulate that
                        <persName ref="#john_tyler"><roleName type="office">President</roleName>
                        <forename>John</forename>
                        <surname>Tyler</surname></persName> was debating whether or not to send
                    federal troops to <placeName ref="#ri">Rhode Island</placeName>. 
                    <persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><forename>Thomas</forename> <surname>Dorr</surname></persName> 
                    quickly took up his pen and wrote to prominent Democrats in <orgName>Congress</orgName>, asking them to intervene on
                    behalf of the constitutional reform movement. 
                    <persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><surname>Dorr</surname></persName> wrote to <placeName ref="#nh">New Hampshire</placeName>
                    <persName ref="#levi_woodbury"><roleName type="office">Senator</roleName>
                        <forename>Levi</forename>
                        <surname>Woodbury</surname></persName>, <placeName ref="#pa">Pennsylvania</placeName>
                    <persName><roleName type="office">Senator</roleName>
                        <forename>James</forename>
                        <surname>Buchanan</surname></persName> and <placeName ref="#oh">Ohio</placeName>
                    <persName><roleName type="office">Senator</roleName>
                        <forename>William</forename>
                        <surname>Allen</surname></persName>.</p>
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                    <lb/><placeName ref="#providence_ri">Providence, R.I.</placeName> <date when="1842-04-13">April 13 '42</date>
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                    <lb/><salute>Hon. <del rend="overstrike" cert="high">L. Woodbury</del>
                    <lb/>Dear Sir,
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                <p> I am assured from a source en- 
                    <lb/>titled to credit, that, tomorrow morning, a letter may 
                    <lb/>be expected from <persName ref="#john_tyler"><roleName>President</roleName> Tyler</persName> to <persName ref="#samuel_w_king"><roleName>Governor</roleName> King</persName><del rend="overstrike" cert="high">of 
                    <lb/> this State</del>, threatening to precipitate the forces of the 
                    <lb/><placeName>U. States</placeName> upon this <placeName ref="#ri">State</placeName>, in case the People should 
                    <lb/> proceed to put in operation their Constitution recently 
                    <lb/> adopted and ratified by <del rend="overstrike" cert="high">all</del>a large majority of<del rend="overstrike" cert="low">the</del><add place="above"><del rend="overstrike" cert="low">of a</del></add>
                    <lb/> citizens. <del rend="overstrike" cert="low">Of the sl of our citizens</del>No “domestic violence” has 
                    <lb/> occurred; and I trust that none will occur. Our oppo- 
                    <lb/>nents have not laid hands upon us, and will hardly
                    <lb/>venture to do so in the present state of public opinion.<lb/>
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                <p> Will the friends of American <metamark place="bottom">^</metamark><add place="above">in the two Houses of <orgName>Congress</orgName></add> Democracy 
                    <lb/> permit such a proceeding to take place in violation of the rights 
                    <lb/> &amp; expressed opinions of the Sovereign People of a State - 
                    <lb/>however small its territorial dominions, without one word 
                    <lb/> of remonstrance? We are without advices from any friend 
                    <lb/> in <orgName>Congress</orgName>. The Globe is silent. <metamark place="bottom">^</metamark><add place="above"> On the <date when="--04-05">5th of April</date> a memorial was sent by special  messenger to <persName ref="#levi_woodbury">Hon. L. Woodbury</persName>,
                    <lb/>relating to the <name>People’s Constitution</name> and to their proceedings to which no answer 
                    <lb/> has been received. 
                    <lb/></add> Will any friend 
                    <lb/>of State Rights in either House do us the favor of say 
                    <lb/>ing by letter what we are to expect? I trust that some 
                    <lb/>one will give us the reply which is now respectfully solicited.
                    <lb/>
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                    <lb/><salute>I am truly yours, </salute>
                    <lb/>For the Constitutional State 
                    <lb/> Committee 
                    <lb/><persName ref="#thomas_wilson_dorr"><forename type="first" full="abb">Tho’s</forename>
                        <forename type="middle" full="init">W.</forename>
                        <surname>Dorr</surname></persName>
                    <lb/>Chairman </closer>
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