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title: Freedom's Champion--Elijah Lovejoy author: Simon, Paul. publisher: Southern Illinois University Press isbn10 | asin: 0809319411 print isbn13: 9780809319411 ebook isbn13: 9780585030296 language: English Lovejoy, Elijah P.--(Elijah Parish),--1802- subject 1837, Abolitionists--Illinois--Alton-- Biography, Riots--Illinois--Alton--History- -19th century, Alton (Ill.)--Biography. publication date: 1994 lcc: F549.A4L72 1994eb ddc: 973.5/092 Lovejoy, Elijah P.--(Elijah Parish),--1802- 1837, Abolitionists--Illinois--Alton-- subject: Biography, Riots--Illinois--Alton--History- -19th century, Alton (Ill.)--Biography. Page iii Freedom's Champion Elijah Lovejoy Paul Simon With a Foreword by Clarence Page Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville Page iv Copyright © 1994 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Dariel Mayer Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga 97 96 95 4 3 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Simon, Paul, date. Freedom's championElijah Lovejoy / Paul Simon : with a foreword by Clarence Page. p. cm. Rev. ed. of: Lovejoy, martyr to freedom. 1964. Includes index. 1. Lovejoy, Elijah P. (Elijah Parish), 18021837. 2. AbolitionistsIllinoisAlton Biography. 3. RiotsIllinoisAltonHistory19th century. 4. Alton (Ill.)Biography. I. Simon, Paul, date, Lovejoy, martyr to freedom. II. Title. F549.A4L72 1994 973.5´092dc20 [B] 93-45581 ISBN 0-8093-1940-3 CIP ISBN 0-8093-1941-1 pbk. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Page v To Howard Metzenbaum, like Elijah Lovejoy, a courageous champion of opportunity and justice Page vii We don't need to do anything to history to make it better, sexier, happier, safer, more relevant. We need only listen to it, accept it, even in its seemingly unbearable moments, and trust in its lessons. Ken Burns, filmmaker and producer of "The Civil War" Page ix Contents Illustrations xi Foreword, Clarence Page xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xix 1. From Maine to the Frontier 1 2. Editor, Preacher, and Fighter 18 3. A Horrible Murder 43 4. A Press in the River 61 5. Danger and Violence 77 6. Prelude to Death 96 7. Death 118 8. Injustice and Aftermath 136 9. The Nation Is Stirred 154 Postcript 171 Notes 179 Index 197 Page xi Illustrations Following page 76 Monument at the site of the birthplace of Elijah Lovejoy in Albion, Maine Elijah Lovejoy, silhouette Lovejoy's house in Alton, wood engraving by Louis Hofman Lovejoy's printing office in Alton, engraving Alton, Illinois, watercolor by Henry Lewis, 1848 Section of Lovejoy's printing press Proslavery riot of November 7, 1837, wood engraving, 1837 Lovejoy memorial plate Lovejoy monument in Alton Page xiii Foreword Ever since Paul Simon published a shorter book on the martyred abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy in 1964, the two seemed to me to be an appropriate match. Both built formidable reputations as teachers, humanitarians, and crusading editorial writers. Simon's reputation came quite early. Long before the nation got to know him as a U.S. senator and a 1988 candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Simon, at nineteen, took over what would eventually be a chain of thirteen southern Illinois newspapers. He immediately embarked on a relentless crusade against local gangsters and machine politicians, a battle that carried considerable risks with it, just as Lovejoy's crusade against slavery proved fatal for him and his printing presses. Like Lovejoy, Simon, the son of a Lutheran minister, is closely associated with sober Yankee virtues of hard work and charity, a virtually spotless reputation that helped him get elected to the Illinois General Assembly in 1954 despite opposition from party regulars, to the state Senate in 1963, to lieutenant governor in 1966 (the only to be elected while the other party won the governorship), to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1975, and to the U.S. Senate in 1984. In a political age of breathtaking scandals and rampant cynicism, Simon stands out among friends and foes alike in his trademark bow ties and monotone voice as refreshingly modest and dull. His idea of a "wild time," a congressional colleague once quipped, is "dinner and a discussion of history."
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