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ALTON - Campaign to End Free Speech: Two Murders that Provoked Lincoln to Run for President (Power Our World)

By Zann Gill
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By Zann Gill
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In 1837 the villain in ALTON, a paid pro-slavery lobbyist, handed Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Editor of The Alton Observer, a devil's ultimatum: "Sacrifice your values. Give up your commitment to free speech. Abandon your newspaper and leave Alton. Or stay. . . and you'll be murdered." When Lovejoy refused to sacrifice his values, a frenzied mob of white men feigned respectability by dressing up in top hats and swallow tail coats to murder him. This murder in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln's home sta...

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