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Morning Star
Limerick, York County, Maine
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On Dec. 18th, colored Americans in New York held a meeting adopting resolutions honoring martyred Lovejoy, calling for unity against slavery, and affirming freedom of speech and press. They contributed $60 to his widow and orphans.
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Resolved, That the blood of the martyred Lovejoy calls upon us, an oppressed people, to become more united in sentiment and effort, while two and a half millions of our brethren are dragging out a life of misery and degradation under that most detestable system of American slavery, which not only reduces men to brutes, but threatens slavery and death to those, who plead their cause.
Resolved, That among our rights, we hold none dearer than the freedom of the speech and of the press; and that whilst in the land of the free, we can never relinquish that freedom for the dumb eloquence of the downtrodden slave.
Sixty dollars were contributed at this meeting for the widow and orphans of Mr. Lovejoy.
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New York
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Dec. 18th
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sixty dollars were contributed at this meeting for the widow and orphans of mr. lovejoy.
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At a meeting of the colored Americans, of New York, Dec. 18th, the following among other resolutions, were adopted: Resolved, That the blood of the martyred Lovejoy calls upon us, an oppressed people, to become more united in sentiment and effort, while two and a half millions of our brethren are dragging out a life of misery and degradation under that most detestable system of American slavery, which not only reduces men to brutes, but threatens slavery and death to those, who plead their cause. Resolved, That among our rights, we hold none dearer than the freedom of the speech and of the press; and that whilst in the land of the free, we can never relinquish that freedom for the dumb eloquence of the downtrodden slave.