Hurrah for the Old Charter

This anti-Dorrite broadside celebrates the March 1842 defeat of the General Assembly's proposed constitution, commonly referred to as the Landholder's - or Freeman's - constitution. Many Dorrites voted against this constitution in hopes that its defeat would allow for the adoption of the People's Constitution, previously approved by voters in December 1841, as the new state constitution. Instead, the state continued to be governed under the old Charter. Mockery of the self-defeating Dorrite action is central to this piece.