Friends of the Constitution

This broadside was issued for the constitutional vote of March 1842. It suggests to suffrage supporters that the People's Constitution will not stand and their only hope for an extension of suffrage was to vote in favor of the Landholders' constitution. This constitution was narrowly defeated by a vote of 8,689 againist adoption to 8,013 in favor. As the broadside warned, the state continued to be governed under the "Old Charter".