“A MARTYR FOR LIBERTY, slain by the hands of his own countrymen! An awful sensation pervades the land. It is one of shuddering horror, excited in view of a fearful and bloody spectacle, seldom equaled in atrocity, and never surpassed in infamy. The amiable, benevolent, intrepid LOVEJOY is no more! He fell overpowered by a band of assassins on the night of the 7th instant, and his mangled body lies covered by the sod!……” (Liberator, Nov 24, 1837, pg 3)
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