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"Even you can plead with men, That they buy not slaves again."

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 Even you can plead with men, That they buy not slaves again.
Anti-slavery newspaper, The Pennsylvania Freeman, published by Penna. Anti-Slavery Society, Philadelphia, Apr. 5, 1849, 13 1/4 x 21, 4 pp. Period name in margin in ink, "L. Lewis." Lengthy page-one plan of Henry Clay, with eerie prediction of civil war in 1860: "Under such a scheme of emancipation, slavery would certainly disappear from Kentucky, but it may well be doubted whether a hundred slaves or their offspring would be liberated ...(Kentucky) might relieve herself...of the danger of becoming the theatre and bearing the brunt of a war waged for its extinction...If the day for the beginning of the system of gradual emancipation be fixed for the year 1860...we can see no other result than their banishment from Kentucky to other slave-holding states. The evils which would flow from such a course to the extreme South...we should be exposed to more vigorous attacks...That slavery will be abolished in Kentucky by the coming Convention there is now no doubt...It becomes the duty of other states...to protect their soil from this new and dangerous invasion of 190,000 of the population which Kentucky finds so worthless that she will no longer tolerate it within her borders...." "How dare Henry Clay or any one else undertake to decide where an equal brother man shall live?...If we could speak to the colored people of Kentucky, we would counsel them not to dream of leaving Kentucky...to prefer death in Kentucky rather than be driven to Liberia or elsewhere...." Nearly full-column account of the "Aerial Steamer...now being built by R. Porter & Co., of N.Y., which seems to promise better success in navigating the airy regions than has heretofore been experienced...We have learned from the past not to ridicule or disbelieve the possibility of such an invention. This is no time to place limits to the progress of art, when the sun is made our painter, and the lightning our docile messenger." Including lengthy description of the "air vessel's" construction. "To our Little Readers," the "Anti-Slavery Alphabet": "Listen, little children all, Listen to our earnest call; You are very young, 'tis true, But there's much that you can do. Even you can plead with men, That they buy not slaves again...And you can refuse to take Candy, sweetmeat, pie or cake, Saying 'no' - unless 'tis free - 'The slave shall not work for me'...." Old quarter folds, light foxing and wear, some corner creases, else about very good. Only one example of this issue found in Library of Congress' Chronicling America database (N.-Y. Historical Society). Very rare.