The four traitors,* who most infamously sold themselves to the Dorrites, for office and political power. Let us not reward Traitors, but with just indignation abandon them as "Scape-Goats," to their destiny--forever

[Providence: publisher not identified, 1845. Broadside (approx. 14" x 9¾"); woodcut caricature of the "four traitors" beneath the running head; old tape stain in the lower right margin (sense remains clear); all else very good. An illustrated broadside reviling four Rhode Island Whigs who broke party ranks to support a popular movement to free the imprisoned radical Thomas Wilson Dorr. The broadside concludes: "The conduct of these men; two of them in particular, toward Governor Fenner, who fearlessly and nobly, sustained the State, through all its recent difficulties, is so treacherous, base and execrable, and is so well understood by the intelligent part of the community, that it needs no comment." "Diatribe reflecting the belief of some Law and Order supporters that Charles Jackson sold himself out in accepting the Liberation endorsement for governor in the 1845 election ... Includes caricatures of Charles Jackson, Samuel Man, James Simmons, and Lemuel Arnold ... Handwritten note on RPB copy attributes text to Thomas Man." Botelho, Right and Might, The Dorr Rebellion and the Struggle for Equal Rights, pp. 67-68: "In Rhode Island politics, Dorr's harsh sentence united moderate Whigs with Dorr Democrats. A liberation coalition, headed by Charles Jackson, captured the 1845 state elections and set about accomplishing its limited aim - to release Dorr from prison ... Under an act of general amnesty, Dorr was finally freed on June 27, 1845, having served twenty months of his sentence." See Conley, Democracy in Decline, pp. 366-68; DeSimone & Schofield, 155 (locating 5 copies - all at either Brown or RI Historical. OCLC adds AAS, Harvard, LC, and Dartmouth. Not in American Imprints. (Inventory #: 57699)