Property from the Eric C. Caren CollectionUNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONReport of Rhode Island's Ratification of the United States Constitution in the Independent Chronicle: and the Universal Advertiser, Vol. XXII, No. 1127. Boston: Printed and Published by Thomas Adams Thursday, June 3, 1790 Folio, 4 pages (21 x 12 5/8 in.; 530 x 320 mm, preserving deckle on edges) on a full sheet of laid paper, fine allegorical woodcut printer's device in masthead, several woodcut vignettes among advertisements, text in four columns; stab-holes from former sewing, a bit of separation at central fold, a couple of small marginal chips, a few light fox spots. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. The Constitution fully ratified: "Rogue Island" ratifies the Constitution at last. Rhode Island was the only one of the confederated states not to send delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Although the Constitution became the law of the land when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it, the Rhode Island legislature remained recalcitrant, rejecting the charter no fewer than eleven times between September 1787 and January 1790. With the patience of the other states at an end, the U.S. Senate passed a bill, 18 May 1790, prohibiting commercial intercourse with Rhode Island. Pushed by worried merchants, Rhode Island finally adopted the Constitution eleven days later. Under the exultant headline "The American Union Compleated," the Independent Chronicle devotes nearly half of the third page to coverage of the Rhode Island legislature's narrow 34–32 approval of the Federal Constitution. A woodcut political cartoon depicts Rhode Island as the thirteenth column erected in the federal edifice below a celebratory poem: "Behold the Dome compleat, the Pillars rise— | Earth for the Basis, for the Arch, the skies! … | O happy land!—O ever-sacred Dome, | Where Peace and Independence own their home." From a handbill carried from Providence, Adams's paper reports that the news of the ratification in Newport was celebrated in Providence by the ringing of bells and the firing of two artillery salutes.Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
Property from the Eric C. Caren CollectionUNITED STATES CONSTITUTIONReport of Rhode Island's Ratification of the United States Constitution in the Independent Chronicle: and the Universal Advertiser, Vol. XXII, No. 1127. Boston: Printed and Published by Thomas Adams Thursday, June 3, 1790 Folio, 4 pages (21 x 12 5/8 in.; 530 x 320 mm, preserving deckle on edges) on a full sheet of laid paper, fine allegorical woodcut printer's device in masthead, several woodcut vignettes among advertisements, text in four columns; stab-holes from former sewing, a bit of separation at central fold, a couple of small marginal chips, a few light fox spots. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. The Constitution fully ratified: "Rogue Island" ratifies the Constitution at last. Rhode Island was the only one of the confederated states not to send delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Although the Constitution became the law of the land when New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it, the Rhode Island legislature remained recalcitrant, rejecting the charter no fewer than eleven times between September 1787 and January 1790. With the patience of the other states at an end, the U.S. Senate passed a bill, 18 May 1790, prohibiting commercial intercourse with Rhode Island. Pushed by worried merchants, Rhode Island finally adopted the Constitution eleven days later. Under the exultant headline "The American Union Compleated," the Independent Chronicle devotes nearly half of the third page to coverage of the Rhode Island legislature's narrow 34–32 approval of the Federal Constitution. A woodcut political cartoon depicts Rhode Island as the thirteenth column erected in the federal edifice below a celebratory poem: "Behold the Dome compleat, the Pillars rise— | Earth for the Basis, for the Arch, the skies! … | O happy land!—O ever-sacred Dome, | Where Peace and Independence own their home." From a handbill carried from Providence, Adams's paper reports that the news of the ratification in Newport was celebrated in Providence by the ringing of bells and the firing of two artillery salutes.Condition ReportCondition as described in catalogue entry. The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The
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