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A Collection From the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers
A Collection From the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers Author:Nathaniel Peabody Rogers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: : shan't be enslaved in this country any longer. Women and child- ren shan't be flogged here any longer. If you undertake to hin- ; der us, the worst i... more »s your own. The press is ours. Demolish it, i if you please, -- muzzle it, you shall never. Shoot down the Lovejoys you can; and if your skirts are not red enough with his blood, dye them deeper with other murders. You can do it with entire impunity. You can get the dead indicted and tried along with you, and the jury will find you all not guilty together ; and " public sentiment" will back you up, and say you had ample provocation. To be sure, you will not escape the vengeance of Heaven; but who cares for that, in a free and Christian country ? ii You will come to an untimely end; -- but that, you know, is noth- i ing to a "judicious," " well-regulated," " christian spirit!" But this is all fanaticism. Wait and see. : THE CONVENTION. [From the Herald of Freedom of August 18,1838.] I Thanks to our young brethren for their hearty -- noble-souled ; committee's call. Now for obeying it. Now see if our abo- i litionists, who " remember those in bonds,"« less