"If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?"
Elijah Parish Lovejoy was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, and abolitionist editor. He was killed by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, and became a symbol for press freedom and the antislavery movement. His death intensified abolitionist organizing in the North.