In Alton, Illinois, a pro-slavery mob lynches (executes without due process) Elijah P. Lovejoy, an abolitionist newspaper editor.
Postscript: Later Whig (nationalist) former representative Abraham Lincoln speaking in Worcester, Massachusetts, would recall the murdered Lovejoy: “I have heard you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, and we shot one the other day.”
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 112.
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