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THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO THE MARTYR QE. ID. flunerup WHO LOST HIS LIFE FOR DENOUNCING SLAVERY AND DEFENDING THE FREEDOM OF TI-IE PRESS. Inscriptions and Historical Data upon the Monument: fsoUTH FRoNT.l C1lfedzzZ!z'01z of .L0'Z!6j.0'jl.l ELIIAH P. LOVEIOY, EDITOR ALTON OBSERVER. Albion, Maine, Nov. 8, ISO2, Alton, Ill., Nov. 7, 1837. A MARTYR TO LIBERTY. H I have sworn eternal Opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go backf' KNORTH FRONTJ CHAMPION OF FREE SPEECH. lcllf of Lozfejay P7'e5,v.l H But, gentlemen, as long as I am an American citizen, and as long as Ameri- can blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, to publish whatever I please on any subject-being' amenable to the laws of my country for the same. KEAST PANELJ Q MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL. MODERATOR OF ALTON PRESBYTERYA. If the laws of my country fail to protect me I appeal to God, and with him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it. KWEST PANEL., SALVE, vIcToREs! This monument commemorates the valor, devotion and sacrifice of the noble Defenders of the Press, who, in this city, on Nov. 7, 1837, made the first armed resistance to the aggressions of the slave power in America. In addition to these epitaphs in bronze, the following explanatory inscriptions are placed on the granite base below the urns : Erected, by tlIe State of Illinois, and citizens of Alton, 1896-97. Dedicated, In gratitude to God, and in the love of Liberty, November 8, 1897. 7
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