When was it published?

August 14, 1839 in Vermont Telegraph

Story August 14, 1839

Vermont Telegraph

Q: What keywords are associated?

Anti Slavery, Oration, Illinois, Wheeling, Lovejoy, 1839

Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont

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What is this article about?

A writer praises an anti-slavery oration delivered by Augustus H. Conant on July 4, 1839, in Wheeling, Cook County, Illinois, and congratulates the cause in the region where Lovejoy was murdered, but cannot publish extracts due to space constraints in the Telegraph.

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ANTI-SLAVERY IN ILLINOIS. I have just seen, in print, 'an oration, delivered at Wheeling, Cook Co. Ill. July 4th, 1839, by Augustus H. Conant, Farmer.' I should be happy to give extracts from this address, or to give it entire, in the Telegraph. But the paper is quite full on the subject, just now, with the doings at Albany, together with the current Anti-Slavery intelligence, attention to the affairs of the cause about home, &c. Suffice it, at present, that I highly congratulate the cause of the perishing slave, in another part of the State in which Lovejoy was murdered, that it has such an advocate as is indicated by the article before me.

What sub-type of article is it?

Historical Event

What themes does it cover?

Moral Virtue Justice

What keywords are associated?

Anti Slavery Oration Illinois Wheeling Lovejoy 1839

What entities or persons were involved?

Augustus H. Conant Lovejoy

Where did it happen?

Wheeling, Cook Co. Ill.

Story Details

Key Persons

Augustus H. Conant Lovejoy

Location

Wheeling, Cook Co. Ill.

Event Date

July 4th, 1839

Story Details

The writer mentions seeing a printed oration on anti-slavery by Augustus H. Conant delivered on July 4th, 1839, at Wheeling, Cook Co., Ill., expresses desire to publish extracts in the Telegraph but cannot due to space filled with other anti-slavery news, and congratulates the cause in the state where Lovejoy was murdered for having such an advocate.