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Two Issues of "The Liberator", 1846 & 1849, Free Soil Movement, Slavery, and More
Two Issues of "The Liberator", 1846 & 1849, Free Soil Movement, Slavery, and More
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Slavery
Boston, MA, February 13, 1846 & September 7, 1849
Two Issues of "The Liberator", 1846 & 1849, Free Soil Movement, Slavery, and More
Newspapers
A pair of issues of "The Liberator", with fantastic content on abolition efforts and slavery in the United States. Each 4pp, measuring 18.5" x 25", Boston, dated February 13, 1846 and September 7, 1849. Published by William Lloyd Garrison, the paper was a weekly newspaper which ran from 1831 to 1865. The two contain articles on "Southern Chivalry", opposition to Slaveholders in the Union, annual meetings of various anti-slavery groups, poetry, and more. Both with flattened folds, creasing, and chipping/loss at the edges and corners. Some separations and tears at the folds. Toning, foxing, and dampstaining throughout.

Highlights:
February 13, 1846, Vol. XVI, No. 7, Whole No. 788:
"Refuge of Oppression: Consequences of Running Away! The New-York Express, edited by James Brooks, (formerly of Maine,) is one of the dirtiest, meanest and most venomous tools of the southern slavocracy. Take as a specimen of its villainous spirit, the following comments on the last letter published in the Liberator from the eloquent and gifted Douglass: - If this man Douglass had not run away from the South, the people there would tell him he would never have met with this cry, 'We don't allow n*****s in here.' It is only in the free States, that this violent anti 'n*****' prejudice exists, and as much among the political abolitionists, as among any people in the world…If the Lord Mayor of Dublin chooses to take to his table the negro servants of America, or the while servant of his own miserable, poverty-stricken, ragged, starving country, - all we have to say is, De gustibus non est disputandum. If Douglass will only travel among 'the pisantry' of the Lord Mayor's country, particularly among O'Connell's wretched tenants, whom the Time's correspondent has been recently describing, he will soon confess that the worst off slaves in this country are princes in comparison with them…"

"Southern Chivalry…The speech of Mr. Holmes of South Carolina, in the House, to-day, was from beginning to end one dreadful picture of the horrors of war, and the desolation and ruin into which our country would inevitably be forced by the overwhelming power of England, if the contemplated notice should be given. This is Southern chivalry. They are not afraid of anything when slavery can be perpetuated by their bravados; but when the 'area of freedom is to be really and truly extended,' by the settlement and organization of a territory where they know slavery cannot be planted, they shudder at the prospect of having to fight for such extension. He, too, considered it certain that war would follow immediately the giving of the notice…A Whig member from Illinois, (I did not learn his name) replied to Mr. Holmes, in a speech, which for eloquence, enthusiasm, boldness and scorching rebuke, surpassed any speech I have yet heard. The Southern members appeared to be in agony - they could not sit still, but writhed about and looked daggers at him, and occasionally interrupted him…" [the member was Whig member Edward D. Baker, long-time close friend of Abraham Lincoln].

September 7, 1849, Vol. XIX, No. 36, Whole No. 974:
"Daniel O'Connell vs. American Slavery…I now come to America, the boasted land of freedom; and here I find slavery, which they not only tolerate but extend, justified and defended as a legacy left them by us. It is but too true. But I would say unto them, you threw off the allegiance you owed us, because you thought we were oppressing you with the stamp act. You boasted of your deliverance from slavery. On what principle, then, do you now continue your fellow-men in bondage, and render that bondage even more galling, by ringing in the eats of the sufferers from your tyranny, what you have done, what you have suffered for freedom?..."

"No Union with Slaveholders! Letters to Father Mathew, No. 1…I would gladly commence this letter with some expressions of personal esteem and veneration for your character, could I do so conscientiously or sincerely; but the position which you occupy respecting the greatest crime of the age, on the American soil, forbids my doing so. Though I am no longer your admirer, I am still your friend; and never have you stood so much in need of a real friend as now. You have done a foolish and wicked thing, and foolish and wicked men are filled with delight. It will serve to increase the number of your parasites and flatterers, and alas! to the blind vision, pervert the judgement, and injure the moral sense of many who claim to be the friends of suffering humanity…The motives which actuated the long-tried friends of the slaves in extending to you such an invitation were pure and praise-worthy, and need no defence. In Ireland, you professed to sympathise with the American slave…And yet you will not utter a word in behalf of three millions of perishing slaves, lest it should give offense to the traffickers in human flesh! O, far heavier is the condemnation you deserve!"

"Slavery - Father Mathew. Mr. Editor: It is surprising to see the immense power which slavery has upon the minds and actions of the multitude; upon those, too, who profess to be benefactors of our race. Even Theobald Mathew, the apostle and philanthropist, as he was supposed to be while in Ireland, as soon as he gets within reach of this poisonous Upas, is struck dumb, and is willing to be considered, by many, as either a religious hypocrite or a simple supe; compromising every principle of Justice, Liberty, and Humanity, to bask in the sunshine of popularity. Is he entitled to the name of 'father,' when he refuses to aid the oppressed - refuses to speak in behalf of the down-trodden - refuses to do to others as he wishes they would do to him - who has sympathy only for his own nation…The power which slavery has over the clergy of our own country is also astonishing…"

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  • Dimensions: 18.5" x 25"
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