The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . ^ THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY 271 of Illinois might be amended so as to make it a slave question was submitted to a popular election, and the anti-slavery party won by a small plurality. By this time, a wave of antislavery sentiment had inflamedthe whole country. Antislavery parties were formed all overthe North; the proslavery friends met the movementwith firm opposition. An antislavery paper, the sentim^nt^Liberator, edited by William Lloyd Garrison at Boston,achieved national reputation. Another, the Observer, publ
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . ^ THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY 271 of Illinois might be amended so as to make it a slave question was submitted to a popular election, and the anti-slavery party won by a small plurality. By this time, a wave of antislavery sentiment had inflamedthe whole country. Antislavery parties were formed all overthe North; the proslavery friends met the movementwith firm opposition. An antislavery paper, the sentim^nt^Liberator, edited by William Lloyd Garrison at Boston,achieved national reputation. Another, the Observer, publishedat Alton, Illinois, so angered the proslavery party that a mobwrecked the office and murdered Elijah Lovejoy, the editor.
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