The Glocester team
Poetry. At head of text cut of coach drawn by six horses. Poem in 52 lines supports Democratic candidates Potter, Porter and Pell; attacks Whigs, Know-Nothings and Free Soil partisans and refers to Whig attacks in 1842. Date suggested because Free Soil party organized in 1848 fielded candidates then and in 1852 but not 1856; Samuel Potter represented Glocester in R.I. state legislature in 1849 and 1850. First line: The Democrats of Glocester.
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