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As unsettling as Americans found the protests and violence in Massachusetts, leaders were appalled by what the government in Rhode Island was doing. Unlike Massachusetts, the Rhode Island Assembly had issued paper money and made it legal tender. Shopkeepers and other creditors were required by law to accept the state-issued script as an equivalent for gold, or face a penalty of five hundred dollars fine and loss of the right to vote. The Hampshire Gazette also reported that, unlike other neighboring states, Rhode Island had decided against issuing a proclamation urging the arrest of Daniel Shays, who was by then a fugitive from the Massachusetts government. The author did not bother to conceal his disdain for Rhode Island's government and policies, noting that not only had its Assembly decided not to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, but that their current delegates to the Confederation Congress were coming home because their government had "made no provision for their support."

 

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State of Rhode Island issueing of paper money and voting requirements published in the Hampshire Gazette

creator   Unknown
publisher   Hampshire Gazette
date   Mar 28, 1787
location   Northampton, Massachusetts
height   6.0"
width   3.5"
process/materials   printed paper, ink
item type   Periodicals/Newspaper
accession #   #L04.093


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Letter to Governor Bowdoin published in the Hampshire Gazette

Proclamation regarding apprehension of Shays' Insurgents published in the Hampshire Gazette

Editorial "To the Public" on the Constitution published in the Hampshire Gazette


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