Ohio archæological and historical quarterly (1887) (14592462268)

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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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insetting up such a paper was not great.38 The prelimi-nary steps were issuing the prospectus, soliciting sub-scribers, appointing agents in different places, and au-thorizing all postmasters to act as agents. Bates allowed his agents ten per cent commissionfor receiving subscriptions and collecting and transmit-ting the money.. He announced that he would receiveas payment the following articles at the highest currentprice: wheat, corn, pork, beef, tallow, sugar, butter,wool, flax, linsey-cloth, and clean linen and cotton rags.To accommodate his western patrons he arranged tohave them pay an agent designated in that part of thecountry, since the money of what are considered goodwestern banks can not be received by me. As has been said, Bates was a Quaker, and after hehad given up the Philanthropist he became involved in 38 Howells makes this statement, but Bates frequently declared thatthe cost of publishing his paper was very great. See Philanthropist,April 7, 1821, and June 6, 1821.
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. (192) Three Anti-Slavery Newspapers 193 the controversy that arose between the orthodox mem-bers of that sect and the followers of Elias Hicks. In1831 he went to England on a religious mission andsuspended the Repository, which was never resumed. We read of him later in a radical anti-slaverypaper39 of Salem, Ohio, that he had left the religioussect of the Quakers and had become a minister in theMethodist Episcopal Church. The editor of this paperquestions the sincerity of Bates anti-slavery sentimentson account of certain statements made by him in whichhe opposed the American Anti-Slavery Society, sayingthat it would destroy our country, our churches, andour civil and religious liberty. The same paper printed a condemnation of him asa friend of the slave-holder, since he upheld the Unionand the Church. The Genius of Universal Emancipation — Published and Edited by Benjamin Lundy, at Mount Pleasant, Ohio. July, 1821 — March, 1822 Of the three editors mentioned at the beginning o