1861 FUGITIVE SLAVES. No Compromise with the South on the Issue of Fugitive Slavery. Missionary

1861 FUGITIVE SLAVES. No Compromise with the South on the Issue of Fugitive Slavery. MissionaryIn 1860, a Bill was introduced before the Ohio Legislature to attempt to pressure to Ohioans to cease harboring and aiding fugitive slaves. Hitchcock is outraged and incensed. "Have we not done enough? . . . Must we pass additional [laws] . . . ? Laws which, if carried out in their spirit would inflict severe penalties upon that person who should give a cup of water, a bit of bread, or bestow a blanket upon the poor, shivering, hunted fugitive?"

" and Other Tales

Likely issued for the 1839 Centennial of the Great Awakening

receiving the grace of Christ

One of the most significant texts of the earliest days of William Wilberforce's efforts to end slavery

that we might not worship him

Studies In Problem Texts: Being a Short Series of Elucidatory and Applicatory Expositions of Certain Scripture Passages which have Occasioned Perplexity

this is a rather rare early American edition of Gillies' life

Prior to 1724

I am as tender almost as a child

A very interesting work by recent Irish immigrant

He discusses a work he is writing

one of Boston’s most prominent and respected business men and a strong supporter of the Union during the Civil War and the cause of the slaves