Genius of Universal Emancipation, Vol. 12: March, 1832 (Classic Reprint)
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Art. Ath. The books and other articles pur chased by this Society, shall be considered as the Society's property and should the Society cease to exist, said property shall be disposed of by auc tion, and each member receive her proportional part of the proceeds accruing from such sale.
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Genius of Universal Emancipation, Vol. 5: February, 1825 (Classic Reprint)
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Such a work will be worthy of the age and country which shall have given it; birth, and advanced it towards maturity. Posterity must complete it, and reap its temporal rewards.
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Genius of Universal Emancipation, Vol. 13: January 1833 (Classic Reprint)
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Friend of the Afric! Friend of the oppressed! Thou who _wer't cradled. In a far oh clime, Where bigotry and tyranny unblest, With gory hands defaced the page of time Wer't thou forth-driven by their stern control, 'an infant fugitive, across the deep, To teach in after years thy pitying soul, Oe'r all the Afrie's causeless wrongs to weep.
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The Genius of Universal Emancipation, Vol. 11: September, 1830 (Classic Reprint)
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Slavery. - The Georgia Senate, by a vote of 38 to 30, have refused to repeal a law prohibit ing the importation of slaves into that State.
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Genius of Universal Emancipation, Vol. 3: March, 1833 (Classic Reprint)
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About 400 dollars were laid by, when Reuben's mistress, who knew how anxious he was to be free, one day told him that his master had at last consented to treat with him respecting his free dom, and that if he would go to him while he was in the humor, he would most likely obtain favorable terms.
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Genius of Universal Emancipation, Vol. 4: September, 1825 (Classic Reprint)
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Having by more chance. Seen your very use ful paper, the Genius of Universal Emancipa tion, the perusal of it has led me to consider a great deal about slavery.
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The life, travels, and opinions of Benjamin Lundy;: Including his journeys to Texas and Mexico, with a sketch of contemporary events, and a notice of the revolution in Hayti
The War in Texas: A Review of Facts and Circumstances, Showing That This Contest Is a Crusade Against Mexico, Set on Foot and Supported by ... and Perpetuate the System of Slavery and the
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Eyen while the Convention, before alluded to, was in session, a slave-trader boldly landed a cargo of slaves in Texas, from Africa, via Cuba. This was such a bat e faced violation of the laws of Mexico, and the treaties with other nations, that the Convention felt the necessity of passin a formal censure u n the conduct of the slaver. Et some of the mem ers warmly o posed it.' and nothing was done to punish the pirate, ' although it was publicly known that lie was for a length of time in the country, making sale of his slaves, not far distant from where the Convention met. A short time there after, another similar cargo was introduced, and disposed of with like impunity.
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Genius of Universal Emancipation, Vol. 1: October, 1836 (Classic Reprint)
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An'r. 18. - 'i'he Families which shall, at their own expense, remove to any of the new settlements. And wish to establish themselves in any of them, can do so at any time; and shall therefore be entitled to the benefits granted by this law to new settlers; for which purpose they shall present themselves to the Commissioner, or, in his absence, to the respective civil authority, in order that, by making themselves known to the Govern ment, they may receive their grants in due form.
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The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: With a Memoir of Her Life and Character (Classic Reprint)
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See this beautiful article in the collection of poetry. It was written when she was about eighteen years of age.
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Benjamin Lundy was an American merchant and author. He was an editor of anti-slavery papers, the Genius of Universal Emancipation and The National Enquirer.
Background
Benjamin Lundy was born on January 4, 1789, in Sussex County, New Jersey, United States, the only child of Joseph and Eliza (Shot-well) Lundy, both Quakers. His great-grandfather, Richard Lundy, son of Richard Lundy who came from Devonshire to Philadelphia in 1682, was a Quaker minister and established several Friends' meetings in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Education
Benjamin Lundy received only elementary education.
Career
In 1808 Lundy went to Wheeling, Virginia to learn the saddler's trade, and there first came into contact with slavery, witnessing cofflies of negroes passing through the town in the interstate slave trade. In 1815, at St. Clairsville, Ohio, to which place he had removed, he organized an anti-slavery group known as "The Union Humane Society, " and in January 1816 issued a circular letter urging the formation of anti-slavery societies with common name and constitutions, with machinery for correspondence and cooperative effort, and with general conventions for determining policies. In this suggestion may be seen the germ of the later national anti-slavery societies.
He began soon to contribute to The Philanthropist, published by Charles Osborn at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, in which slavery was discussed, and eventually accepted Osborn's invitation to join him in the publication of the paper. This necessitated closing his saddlery, which had been financially profitable; accordingly, he loaded his stock of goods on a flatboat and took it to St. Louis, arriving there in the fall of 1819 at the time when the Missouri slavery question was everywhere under discussion. Lundy at once associated himself with the anti-slavery forces and contributed articles to the newspapers.
During his absence from Ohio, Osborn sold The Philanthropist, and when Lundy returned to Mount Pleasant he began publication, January 1821, of a new paper, The Genius of Universal Emancipation. After but a few issues it was removed to Greenville, Tennessee, where it was published until the summer of 1824, when Lundy removed it to Baltimore. During the next decade he became deeply interested in the question of colonization of freed negroes, as a possible solution for the national problem. He spent much time trying to find suitable places for such colonies, journeying to Hayti in 1825 and again in 1829, to the Canadian province of Upper Canada in 1832, and to Texas three times, 1830-1831, 1833-1834, and 1834-1835.
In January 1827 he was assaulted by Austin Woolfolk, a Baltimore slave-dealer, as a result of critical comments in the columns of The Genius upon Woolfolk's business. In 1828 Lundy went on a six months' lecturing trip through the Northern states, in the course of which he met William Lloyd Garrison and sought his help in the publication of The Genius. Garrison at first declined, but in 1829 joined Lundy at Baltimore and became associate editor. His vitriolic pen quickly involved the paper in lawsuits, however, and he and Lundy separated; while growing opposition in Baltimore led to the removal of the paper to Washington.
During 1830-1831, when Lundy was absent from home to obtain subscribers, he carried part of his equipment with him and had the paper printed in local shops wherever he happened to be. Publication became more and more irregular until finally, toward the end of 1835, The Genius ceased to appear. In the following August, Lundy began the publication in Philadelphia of The National Enquirer and Constitutional Advocate of Universal Liberty, the chief purpose of which seems to have been to expose what the editor regarded as slave-holders' plots to wrest Texas from Mexico. At this time he was in close touch with John Quincy Adams and doubtless supplied Adams with much of the information concerning the Texas situation which he used so effectively in his speeches in Congress.
In 1836 Lundy also published his pamphlet, The War in Texas. He continued to publish The National Enquirer at Philadelphia until March 1838 when it was taken over by John G. Whittier and its name changed to The Pennsylvania Freeman. In May of that year Lundy lost all his papers and journals when a Philadelphia mob destroyed "Pennsylvania Hall, " and in the following summer he left for Illinois where his family resided. There he associated himself with the local anti-slavery societies and reestablished The Genius, twelve issues of which appeared before his death, after a brief illness, in August 1839. Though dated from Hennepin, the Illinois numbers of The Genius were printed at Lowell, Illinois.
Lundy was a member of a Christian group of religious movements called Society of Friends.
Personality
Lundy was cheerful in temperament, gentle and mild in manner. He was a keen observer of men and nature and he was ready to adapt himself to whatever conditions he encountered.