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Excerpt from The Martyrdom of Lovejoy: An Account of the Life, Trials, and Perils of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, Who Was Killed by a Pro-Slavery Mob, at Alton Ill;, On the Night of November 7, 1837 The narrative related in the following pages is an un varnished tale of the shedding of the first blood in defence of the liberty of the press, at the beginning of the discus sion of the subject Of negro slavery in the United States. Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a Presbyterian minister, editor ofa religious newspaper, was attacked by a mob and killed, at Alton, Illinois, on the, night Of 7th November, 1837. Dur ing a comparatively brief period, three Of his printing presses had been successively destroyed by mobs, and it was when engaged, with the sanction of the civil authority in the defence of a fourth, that he gave up his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.