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The
Reverend Elijah Lovejoy's front-page editorials denouncing slavery
inflamed many Alton residents whose sympathies lay with the South. The Lovejoy monument in Alton, Illinois has this statement attributed to Lovejoy: "But, gentlemen, as long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, to publish whatever I please on any subject--being amenable to the laws of my country for the same." |
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Alton
Observer, December 8, 1836
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