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If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Authorities Civil Determined Die God Grave Look Make Me Must Protect Refuse

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If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Am Dare Feel God Guide Hands Heart His Know Me Mould My Own Myself Necessity Now Own Present Resigning Say Will Willing I Am

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As the Bible inculcates upon man but one duty in respect to sin, and that is immediate repentance, abolitionists believe that all who hold slaves, or who approve the practice in others, should immediately cease to do so.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Approve Believe Bible Cease Duty Hold Immediate Immediately Man Others Practice Repentance Respect Should Sin Slaves Who

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Abolitionists believe that, as all men are born free, so all who are now held as slaves in this country were born free, and that they are slaves now is the sin, not of those who introduced the race into this country, but of those, and those alone, who now hold them and have held them in slavery from their birth.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Alone Believe Birth Born Country Free Held Hold Introduced Men Now Race Sin Slavery Slaves Them Those Were Who

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Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

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Topics: Act Any Conviction Emancipation Free Master Must Performed Propriety Slave Value Voluntary

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I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Abuse Freely Know Land Laws Only Publish Right Sentiments Speak Subject

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If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Am Barrel Been Continually Day Down Every Every Day Guilty Hour Hunted Jeopardy Law Life Like Mountains My Life Night Tar Threatened Up Up And Down Violation Why

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I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: Any Been Claim Community Day Elsewhere Go Here Leave May Me More Night Now Other Overtake Protection Retreat Than Violence

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I have concluded, after consultation with my friends and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights.

~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Topics: After Concluded Consultation Counsel Earnestly Exercise Friends God Here Insist Protection Remain Rights Seeking

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: November 9th, 1802

Died: November 7th, 1837

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