Letter from William Sargent, [Falmouth, Kentucky], to William Lloyd Garrison, [1838 October 16]

In this letter addressed to the "Editors of the Liberator" [William Lloyd Garrison], William Sargent has copied "an official advertisement put up at the Court house door of the County," a warrant for an escaped slave. Sargent says the notice is an example of the suffering that abolitionists are "bringing down upon the heads and bodies of one class of of [sic] the human family exemplified in the above scarified body of an aged woman." He points to the accusations against abolitionists in the notice and says, "Now cruelty & vengeance excited by the intermed[d]lers of the north is poured out upon the body of the slave .."
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