1861 FUGITIVE SLAVES. No Compromise with the South on the Issue of Fugitive Slavery. Missionary Prior to 1724

Prior to 1724

A very interesting work by recent Irish immigrant

this is a rather rare early American edition of Gillies' life

that we might not worship him

1861 FUGITIVE SLAVES. No Compromise with the South on the Issue of Fugitive Slavery. Missionary Prior to 1724In 1860, a Bill was introduced before the Ohio Legislature to attempt to pressure to Ohioans to cease harboring and aiding fugitive slaves. Hitchcock is outraged and incensed. "Have we not done enough? . . . Must we pass additional [laws] . . . ? Laws which, if carried out in their spirit would inflict severe penalties upon that person who should give a cup of water, a bit of bread, or bestow a blanket upon the poor, shivering, hunted fugitive?"