Calvin Fairbank

December 29, 1854

From Frederick Douglass’s Paper, comes a letter signed by Laura. S. Holland, telling of the severe treatment of Fairbank at the hands of Kentucky authorities, by whom he is held in prison.  “When such diabolical deeds are being committed without the utterance of a disapproving sentence from a vast majority, we have no grounds to hope for reformation only in Revolution….”

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