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Alton Trials

18381260001838. First Edition. SLAVERY CONSTITUTION GILMAN Winthrop S. SOLOMON John LINCOLN William S. Alton Trials: of Winthrop S. Gilman Who Was Indicted with Enoch Long and Thadeus B. Hurlbut: For the Crime of Riot Committed on the night of the 7th of November 1837 while engaged in defending a Printing Press From an attack made on it at that time by An Armed Mob Written out from notes of the trial taken at the time By a Member of the Bar of the Alton Municipal Court. Also The Trial of John Solomon. and James M. Rock Indicted with James Jennings Solomon Morgan and Frederick Bruchy: For a Riot Committed in Alton On the night of the 7th of November 1837 in unlawfully and forcibly entering the Warehouse of Godfrey Gilman & Co. and breaking up and destroying a Printing Press. Written out from notes taken at the time of trial by William S. Lincoln A Member of the Bar of the Alton Municipal Court. New York: John F. Trow 1838. Small octavo 4-3/4 by 7-1/4 inches later 19th-Century three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards; pp. i-ii 1-5 6-158 2. $2200.First edition of the crucial record of the controversial 1838 trials of over 20 defendants documenting the deadly mob attack on Reverend Lovejoy and his press a work that swiftly provoked Northern fears that free speech required ""not only protection against governmental suppression but also protection against private violence aimed at silencing speakers.""The deadly 1837 mob riot that killed the abolitionist publisher and minister Elijah Lovejoy and destroyed his printing press had swift national impact. It proved to be ""a climactic event in the larger struggle for free speech"": one that raised fundamental questions on the ""private suppression of speech and the nature and future of republican government."" It also triggered ""an emerging view that free speech and press were rights or 'privileges' and 'immunities' to which all American citizens were entitled everywhere in the U.S."" The murderous riot demonstrated that free speech required ""not only protection against governmental suppression but also protection against private violence aimed at silencing speakers"" Curtis Free Speech 217-18.Prior to his death Reverend Lovejoy had seen mobs twice destroy his presses in Alton Illinois but despite no support from the state legislature or local officials he persisted. On November 7 1837 the warehouse where his new press was held was set on fire and he was murdered. In January 1838 eleven of Lovejoy's supporters and Gilman owner of the warehouse were indicted for attempting to protect Lovejoy and defend his pressa prosecution that outraged many in the North. At the same time eleven of the rioters ""only a small fraction of those who attacked the warehouse"" were also indicted Finkelman Slavery 148 The January trial of Gilman and his co-defendants is documented in the nearly 80 first pages of this very elusive first edition followed by coverage of the same month's trial of the eleven mob participants. Both trial records contain indictments arguments of counsel and witness testimony. While all in both trials were acquitted anger remained that defenders of Lovejoy and his press were indicted at all. The trials ""crystallized the fear that slavery would destroy free speech and civil liberty Lovejoy's death was part of a great transformation"" in a movement that recognized ""states and cities had acted against free speech simply by not acting by failing to provide protection free speech then required protection to be a meaningful right"" Curtis 227 239-400. To scholar Paul Finkelman ""the history of speech and anti-slavery is critical for our understanding of how opposition to free speech works"" Speech Press and Democracy 818. First edition first printing: with engraved frontispiece; rear pre-publication advertisement for Twelve Months in Alton. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 121163. Ex-library with gilt numbers on otherwise plain spine and evidence of library label removal.Text fresh with mild occasional soiling edge-wear to bright boards. A distinctive near-fine copy. hardcover

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