Free Speech Prevails in Philadelphia

Free Speech Triumphant .     We congratulate the friends of Free Speech everywhere upon the re-election of Mr. Henry as Mayor of Philadelphia.  His course last winter, in defending the right of Abolitionists to utter their sentiments chagrined and maddened the deluded servitors of the Slave Power, who bent all their energies to the work of defeating him in the election held on Tuesday.  The issue was directly between Freedom of Speech on the one hand, and the rule of the mob on the other; and gloriously has the right triumphed.  Let us hope that the day of pro-slavery mobs is forever passed in Philadelphia.    – A. S. Standard

                     (Liberator, May 11, 1860, pg )