Congress Representative Ballot

Law & Order 1847 – In 1847 after many failed attempts to elect representatives from Providence the Providence Journal somewhat frustrated printed the following article on May 10th, 1847 under the heading Representatives to the General Assembly: “In the absence of a City Convention or other mode of ascertaining the general opinion, nominations have been made in the First and Second Wards of candidates for the General Assembly. The candidates proposed are JABEZ GORHAM, VINCENT CARR. These nominations, so far as we have been able to ascertain, give general satisfaction, and we hope our friends will unite and elect the candidates. The inconvenience and perplexity of holding an election every ten days should not be submitted to any longer: and unless an end is put to it, something more serious than inconvenience and perplexity will be the result. The candidates are unobjectionable and all the others have declined; and there is nothing to prevent their election if our friends will turn out in their accustomed strengths.” 14.2 cm X 11.2 cm