A three-page manuscript letter. Writing on Recto and Verso.
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There are more than 2500 hundred letters that are known to exist that either pertain to the Dorr Rebellion and its aftermath or the early life of the rebellion’s leader
Original spelling is retained.
This is the only letter in the Dorr correspondence files signed by both
We hear with great pain that you are about publishing a prox at the
head of which you are named for Governor of this state which is a
violation of the lawful authority of the State.
It grieves us to the heart to
know that a son of ours arrived at so mature an age and so well versed
in the laws of his Country should be a participant in acts calculated to
bring the state into destruction,
arouse passions which you cannot allay
and which God forbid produce civil strife attended with bloodshed and
murder. We beseech you.
We pray
and become engulfed in political criminal degradation, where our feeble prayers will not avail to save you from disgrace and ruin.
We again beg entreat and pray you to retire from the strife you are
inciting, for the law must prevail or all government is at an end.
If your heart is sensible to the parental anguish we have and now
suffer, we pray our Heavenly Father will vouchsafe and awaken in yours
a corresponding feeling for our sufferings and influence
you to renounce
the course you are pursuing and restore us to a peace of mind which
has for a long time has been a stranger to us.
May God in his infinite mercy prompt you to a decision which
citizens whose esteem is worth the cultivation and preserve our grey hairs
from that shame and disgrace which will attend forever if successful
your present course and hurry us sorrowing to the grave.
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