Expediency Faith Versus Sin and Abolition Debate
A 1662 sermon excerpt argues that expediency clashes with natural and moral evil, citing Augustine and a French king’s choice. The piece pivots to Kentucky abolition debates, noting a failed constitutional convention vote, and endorses reformers. It also reports Friends of North Carolina urging slavery abolition and laments slaveholding tensions in U.S. politics.
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London
Calamy
St. Augustin
Hell
St. Austin
God
Charles the Ninth
France
Prince of Conde
Mr. Calamy
Christian
Satan
Van
Kentucky
Friends of Slavery
Coffee
Commonwealth
Messrs
Andrews
Blair
Bradley
Dohoney
Dorton
Finn
Goodson
Harris
Jasper
Lecompte
M’elroy
McFall
Mims
Morris
Pirtle
Riffe
Shenaetrates Ware
Waller
Senate
West Indies
Emanc
Friends of North Carolina
Society of Friends
North Carolina
Morehead
Guilford Country
Abolition Petitions Debate in the Senate
Senator Clay presents DC residents petition opposing federal action on abolition in the District of Columbia. He calls for respect for the local legislature and warns abolitionists have exploited petition handling, arguing Congress should not alter local rights without consent. He criticizes past reception and urges cautious, constitutional procedure.
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Transpar
Crax
Kentucky
Senate
House of Representatives
United States
District of Columbia
Washington
Congress
Clay
Whdely
The Philanthropist Publication Details
The Philanthropist weekly by the Anti-Slavery Society is published on Main Street between Fourth and Fifth in Cincinnati Ohio. Publishing agent James Boyle handles business letters and editorial messages. Subscription price is two dollars and fifty cents in advance.
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the Philanthropist
THE
Anti-Slavery Society
Main
East Side
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bateon
Ohio Assembly rejects Kentucky slave law appeal
The Ohio General Assembly Select Committee reports against adopting an act to aid Kentucky in recapturing or enticing enslaved people. The committee argues slavery is politically and morally wrong, and favors friendship with Kentucky only in non morally questionable matters. The report notes insufficient evidence of an organized slave-catching plan and urges not to pass the Kentucky commissioners’ proposal.
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The
Society of Fiends
Newgarden
Guilford County
North Carolina
Nathan Mendenhall
Senate
Society of Friends
Penn and Fox
Friends of Emancipation
Pa. Freeman
Os ‘Ocr Cuassus
Africa
Claus
Tee
Messrs Morehead and Smith
Kentucky
General Assembly of
Ohio
Morehead
Smith
House of Representatives
Mises
Canada
Bath
Cace
Mr. Rock
Rock
de B. Mahan
Ely
Maysville
Perrigo
United States
Kenas
Cesar
Pennsylvania
Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
Ose Tiphar
Joseph
General Assembly
A. B
E. F
Mrs. W
Mississippi
Niagara
Philanthropist's Politics Stir Civil Tensions In Ohio
Before the late election Mr Medary of the Ohio Statesman showed strong philanthropy toward Rev Mahan and opposed Governor Vancester. He urges a law to compel freemen to aid slavery. The observer's quip cites a proverb about the Devil and reform.
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Medary
Ohio Statesman
Mr. Mahan
Vancester
Mahan
Testimony From a Slave State Abolition Debate
A Camden letter from January 1839 reports an abolitionist reborn as an anti abolitionist after witnessing slave cruelty in Kentucky. The writer describes brutal beating of a enslaved man, mob pressure, and clergy and public figures defending slavery while calling for harsher suppression of abolitionists.
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Camden
Presbyterian Church
Free State
Outrage Reported Near Jackson Court-house
A traveller blamed on growing methocratic influence at Jackson Court-house. He lodged with Abraham French on Saturday night and suffered an attack described as barbarous by local observers in Chillicothe on February 8, 1839.
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Presbyterian Church
Abolition Society
Etene
E. Bascomb
Jackson
Chillicothe
Jackson Court-house
Abraham French
Abolition Controversy Letter on Colored Servants
A letter to the Philanthropist outlines David Ruggles role in a dispute over enslaved workers who moved North. It recounts Dodge selling slaves to Charleston then to Brooklyn, where an elderly woman and her kin stayed as pensioners. Ruggles pressured for wages and Charity Walker left the Dodge family for a colored-run residence in New York. The narrative ends with ongoing tensions.
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Bangor Courier
District of Columbia
Congress
Prince Metternich
Russia
Rome
New Orleans
Jackson
Georgetown
Alexandria
Corversn Schoors
Derrir
Nash
Cleveland
Mitchell
Friends of Humanity
Mich
Watchchase
Teel
Charity Walker
David Ruggles
Ruggles
Mirror of Freedom
Dodge
North Carolina
Charleston
Brooklyn
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A. Alley, Printee
Bigs
United States Senate
Calhoun
South Carolina
Berme
New York
MR. Clay
Ibe & Am
Florida
Asia
St. James
Edge of Commons
Friends
Lion
Missouri
Union
Rious
Congres
Islands
Eri
James Boyle
Communications
Trevitt
Columbus
Philanthropist
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