1742 PHILADELPHIA ELECTION RIOT. Quakers Argue against the Dangers of Executive Branch Overreach. ZZSlaveryandSuffrage Climbing on Track A Biography

Climbing on Track A Biography of Fred Mitchell

Two Discourses Delivered November 23d

Let not too much power be trusted in the hands of any

how much more so would they be when told that their punishment will some time have an end

we entered what seemed to be a clean place and sat down

1742 PHILADELPHIA ELECTION RIOT. Quakers Argue against the Dangers of Executive Branch Overreach. ZZSlaveryandSuffrage Climbing on Track A BiographyAn exceptionally scarce two page printed broadside addressed To the Freeholders of the Province of Pennsylvania, written in the context of the October 1, 1742 Pennsylvania Assembly election known as the Bloody Election, or the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742. Politics in Pennsylvania had long been dominated by the Quakers, but their control was increasingly threatened by the predominantly Anglican Proprietary Party, leading to growing tensions. The