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412 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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it attacked is to sympathise a . majority with of both Lovej speakers oy , or and the audience slaveholders being * he , how ha ® -
attorney ever , clearl - , _general y on the for the side commonwealth of the latter . arose Here and a Mr in . rep Au l s y tin to _,,
an del address ivered a b violent y Dr . Channing -slavery _* , prote harangue sting against , declaring the , mob that -violence Lovejoy _^
dieth was u _" presumptuous and compared pro and the rioters impudent who , " slew and , him " died to the as " the orderl fool y
mob" , who threw the tea overboard in 1773 . Upon this rose in the any , young public lawyer meeting , Wendell , and who Philli had ps , not who expected had never to taken take part part and
in this . Mr . Phillips , confronting the attorney-general , man side addressing b lay y side down - the with princi chairman Otis ples and , cried which li Hancock , " p Sir lace , , with when the to Quincy murderers the I heard and the of Adams gentle in Alton the - ,
hall I thoug ) would ht those have pictured broken into ps ( pointing voice to rebuke portraits the recreant into American counter insi -app gnificance ? the lause slanderer . ] if he The dared gentleman of the to gainsay dead said . the [ that Great princi he app p shoul les lause of d these sink and
resolutions . Sirfor the sentiments he has uttered , on soil consecrated by the , ers of puritans and the blood of patriots
pray , the Here earth there should was have a violen yawned t uproar and , swallowed with ming him led up app . " lause and
hisses violent Sturgis , cries and came cries of forward " Philli of u to Tak Mr e or . th nobod Philli at back ps " ' . side " " Make , The and Hon him was . tak met William e back with ps y
c recreant 5 —he shan't go on till he takes , it back . " Mr . Sturgis conjured consecrated them by , their u by every fathers association to freedom connected of discussion with that to listen hall ,
, Philli to every ps at man leng that th addressed gaining citizens an them opportunity cannot in a decorous tak of back making manner his words . " voice Mr " .
Again heard , s and aid , again " Fellow during this , I speech the uproar e drowned my the . speaker ' s voice . But he did not quail . Quiet came only to
hear such utterances as the following : Presumptuous to assert tion the freedom of such of freedom the press before on the American ?—so ground much ! before Is the the asser age - age
as to leave one no right to make it because it displeases the thi community thing ? Who which invents entitles this Lovejoy libel to on greater his country praise ? . It The m
representation disputed s very right — which is far provoked beneath the that revolution for which — he taxation died . without [ Here
there One word was a strong gentlem and en : general as much expression as thoug of ht disapprobation is better than . ]
a money mere , question so , much is of the taxes cause . James in which Otis Lovej thundered oy died nobler in this than hall
412 Notices Of Books.
412 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/52/
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