Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy: Who was Murdered in Defence of the Liberty of the Press, at Alton, Illinois, Nov. 7, 1837"Elijah P. Lovejoy was a Princeton Seminary-trained Presbyterian minister, native of Maine, abolitionist, newspaper editor, and religious critic. After leaving Princeton in 1833 he established himself in St. Louis, a city in which he had lived briefly before taking his divinity degree. On there separate occasions pro-slavery mobs destroyed his pro-abolitionist press on 7 November 1837, burned the building, and killed the man himself. This Memoir, written by his brothers Joseph and Owen and with an introduction by John Quincy Adams, helped establish Elijah Lovejoy as a martyr in the causes of freedom of the press and the anti-slavery movement." (background from Philadelphia Rare Book & Manuscript). |
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Page 170 - When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing but that rather a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person : see ye to it.
Page 147 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Page 150 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Page 244 - The powers of man : we feel within ourselves His energy divine : he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being : to be great like him, Beneficent and active.
Page 143 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Page 96 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 93 - Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Page 146 - Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God...
Page 93 - For what is your life ? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.