[Footnote 365: Lovejoy. Rev. Elijah Lovejoy, a Presbyterian clergyman … — Essays

Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Footnote 365: Lovejoy. Rev. Elijah Lovejoy, a Presbyterian clergyman of Maine who published a periodical against slavery. In 1837 an Illinois mob demanded his printing press, which he refused to give up. The building containing it was set on fire and when Lovejoy came out he was shot.]

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