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Monument To Thomas Morris

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Parent Issue
Day
31
Month
October
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

-Aletter trom one of the sons of Thomas Morris, of Ohio, to Mr. Gerrit Smith, informs thata large and beautiful monument has been erected to the memory of the incorruptible and fearless seoAíor who answered Henry Clay 's groat speech in defence of slavory, in 183, and stood as the Liberty candidato for the Vice Presidency, along with tho noble Birney,, in 1844. It bearsthe following, fine inscription as just as il, is appropjiate "T II O M A S MORRÍ Sx lata U. S. Senator, was born January 3d, 1776. Died Decemher 7th, 1844. Unawed by power, and uninfluenced hy, flattery, he was, through life, the fcarless advocate of human liberty." Emancipator ÏÏy A suLLorjHon for thp IVational Ljberif paper at Washington haa been caipmenced n Chicago and $11 Oraiscd in uraa of $5,00 ftc.d upwarda.