![]() POSTAGE-This Periodical contains one sheet, postage under 100 miles, is 1 1-2 cents over 100 miles, 2 1-2 cents. ![]() the leader of the Utica riot, was shortly afterwards appointed Attorney General of the state of New-York.} The temples of the Almighty have been sacked, because the worshipers did not conform their consciences to the compact.* Ministers of the gospel have been dragged as criminals from the altar to the bar, because they taught the people from the Bible, doctrines proscribed by the compact.* Hundreds of free citizens, peaceably assembled to express their sentiments, have, because such an expression was forbidden by the compact, been forcibly dispersed, and the chief actor in this invasion on the freedom of speech, instead of being punished for a breach of the peace, was rewarded for his fidelity to the compact with an office of high trust and honor.* [*Samuel Beardsley, Esq. All rights not allowed by this compact, we now hold by sufferance, and our Governors and Legislatures avow their readiness to deprive us of them, whenever in their opinion, legislation on the subject shall be "necessary."* This compact is not indeed published to the world, under the hands and seals of the contracting parties, but it is set forth in official messages,-in resolutions of the State and National Legislatures-in the proceedings of popular meetings, and in acts of lawless violence. By what standard is your liberty of conscience, of speech, and of the press, now measured? Is it by those glorious charters you have inherited from your fathers, and which your present rulers have called Heaven to witness, they would preserve inviolate? Alas! another standard has been devised, and if we would know what rights are conceded to us by our own servants, we must consult the COMPACT by which the South engages on certain conditions to give its trade and votes to Northern men. During this time away from the library building, it has been helpful to have a project that immerses us virtually in the collections and can be worked on in shorter chunks as time allows.OR, TO SUCH AMERICANS AS VALUE THEIR RIGHTS, ANDĪ crisis has arrived, in which rights the most important which civil society can acknowledge, and which have been acknowledged by our Constitution and laws, in terms the most explicit which language can afford, are set at nought by men, whom your favor has invested with a brief authority. ![]() This allowed students to finish their work hours for the semester remotely and has given staff a useful project to supplement their other work. When library staff started working from home in mid-March, we quickly upgraded our demo version of the crowdsourcing software FromThePage to allow staff and student employees to transcribe the manuscripts and printed annual reports of the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society Papers. Each digitized page is accompanied by a complete transcription, which will transform the way researchers interact with the collection, streamline research, and assist scholars who have difficulties reading the at-times challenging handwriting. Clements Library is pleased to announce that the digitized Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society Papers are now fully text searchable.
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