Narrative of Riots At Alton in Connection With the Death of Rev Elijah P Love
Narrative of Riots At Alton in Connection With the Death of Rev Elijah P Love
Beecher Edward
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Whilst Tit this meeting, a request was handed to me, signed by a number of respectable citizens of Upper Alton, not abolitionists, that I would resume the subject of slavery at the point where I left it on the Sabbath, and carry out the principles then ad- vanced to the final removal of the evil from the country; and pledging themselves that there should be no disturbance. Accordingly I preached in the evening; and all was quiet. I endeavored to show the importance of diffusing a kind spirit th...roughout the nation, and of convincing the slave states of our interest in them; so that the subject might be fairly discussed and they convinced of the safety of the plan, and induced to carry it out. I endea- vored also to show that there was no need of colli- sion between the Colonization and Anti-Slavery Societies, if each would take a proper ground, and maintain no false principles of action: and endea- ^' jvored to point out how this could be done: for I fvas desirous to arrest the progress of strife between,
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