Siege at Chepachet by [DORR REBELLION] DOGERTY, Roger [pseud. Effingham Lawrence?] - n.d., ca. 1842

Providence, n.d., ca. 1842. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's brown pictorial side-stitched wrappers; 8pp. Wrappers a bit chipped and worn at extremities with brief splitting at previous horizontal fold, light soiling to both wrappers, else a Good or better copy of a quite fragile item. Lengthy poem "dedicated to the three tail Bashaw of Tripoli, and all the Barbary Powers," recounting the history of the Dorr Rebellion from a Dorrite's perspective, albeit unflatteringly. The rebellion of middle class citizens of Rhode Island, led by Thomas Wilson Dorr in 1841 and 1842, turned out to be an unsuccesful bid to expand enfranchisement in the state--at the time voters were required to be white, male, and own at least $134 in property. Attributed to the Louisiana politician Effingham Lawrence, later known for holding the shortest tenure in Congress, from March 4 to March 5, 1875 (see Susah H. Graham, "Call Me a Female Politician" (2006), p. 204, citing the inscription on a copy of this poem). SABIN 80868.