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Newspaper
The Philanthropist
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1839
Page
1
The Philanthropist weekly edition printed in Cincinnati Ohio lists subscription rates two dollars and fifty cents in advance with three dollars if unpaid by year end. Advertising rates show one half column to full column discounts and multi insertion pricing with variations for alterations and six month terms.
John Rankin argues in this seventh letter that free states have a divine and moral duty to abolish slavery immediately. He draws comparisons to foreign missions, details slave abuse in the United States, cites three million enslaved people, and rebukes slaveholding hypocrisy among Christians while urging lawful action to end slavery.
The Philanthropist notes a clergyman in a slave state provides facts from personal knowledge for Weld's Slavery as it is. He once pastored in Berkley county Virginia and knew a used example where a young master paid a slave five dollars to buy stockings and gloves for protection against cold.
In a vivid anti slavery appeal activists urge rapid petitioning across towns including HavernilT Hanover Plymouth and Manchester to pressure Concord. The call likens slavery to a brutal cart whip and argues abolitionists must spend time gathering signatures to secure rights.
A lengthy Liberator article quoted by Lydia Maria Child mocks New England trained individuals for subservience to the South while recounting a Hartford episode. A Deacon, a local schoolmaster, and a Carolinian each claim North South unity and southern demand for rifles and goods, provoking indignation.
The notice urges friends from the region to attend a major Convention in Albany on Wednesday July 31. It warns of the peril to liberty from slavery and urges immediate, firm action from Americans to support freedom and the rights of man, signaling strong moral urgency and collective effort.
A Jamaica prayer meeting reports about fifty one dollars donated to the American Anti Slavery Society as thanks for emancipation. One man gave two dollars and another three dollars with weekly and yearly earnings noted. The piece questions smug views on slave gratitude and praises the Liberated for their sacrifice, citing Oberlin Evangelist.
A leading abolitionist call urges turning the North toward abolition to influence the South. It argues reform across states, counties, towns, schools, and families is needed and predicts widespread anti-slavery societies libraries petitions and publications as the path to ending slavery.
Anti slavery lecturer urges abolitionists to question legislatures and vote against pro slavery lawmakers. He stresses local action drives national change and asks readers to sustain local, county, state, and national societies to keep the wheels moving.
The Amer. Freeman notes Marshall Michigan has grown rapidly from frontier camp to a modern town with schools and a State University branch. The piece praises the third anniversary of the Michigan State Anti-Slavery Society, Rev J P Cleveland, and abolitionist efforts while criticizing pro slavery rhetoric and calls for ending oppression.
In a letter received this day from Ontario County the writer confesses to acting as a sham abolitionist at the last general election. He claims repentance and says party fog has cleared his view, believing slavery might end peacefully if abolitionists who betrayed the cause repent.
A reformist tract argues abolition will destroy the institution and transform the South. It asserts wealth, immigration, and education rise with abolition, the North and South unite, and a self governed nation emerges under revolutionary ideals, praising freed labor and industrial progress.
The five political papers in town detail plans for July 4 celebrations including cannon salutes processions prayers reading of the declaration orations and dinners. Preparations grow with more bonfires and reports from the cannon.
The Emancipator notes how public prejudice is stirred by colonization talk and recounts past actions where steamboat owners released colored waiters to appease slaveholders. It praises the improved conduct of these workers who gain property and voting rights.
A notice from Melbourne Lower Canada dated June 18 1839 seeks information about Jamison Hart who left Hardwick Vermont about 28 years earlier with his family for a western state and has not been heard from since. Respondents are asked to write to Paul Randal in Melbourne I C to aid an anxious brother and facilitate a planned journey to their prospective residence.
A large sheet issue from the Tabernacle Church in New York discusses Rev Joel Parker and anti slavery ties. It reports Mr Tappan's objections to Parker, charges of disorderly conduct, and public slander claims amid Parker's reformist past and later shifts in stance.
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