BIB_ID
296574
Accession number
MA 1305.4
Creator
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889.
Display Date
1856 Sept. 10.
Credit line
Acquired before 1949.
Description
1 item (1p.) ; 28.5 cm
Notes
Part of the Jacob Heaton scrapbook, which contains over 100 entries, letters, photographs, engravings and ephemera related primarily to the abolitionist movement. Items of importance have been described in 45 individual catalog records (MA 1305.1-45); see collection record for more information.
Signed "Oliver Johnson," and dated "Salem, Ohio, 10 Sept. 1856."
Signed "Oliver Johnson," and dated "Salem, Ohio, 10 Sept. 1856."
Summary
Quoting the first stanza of John Greenleaf Whittier's hymn "O, brother man" (first line: "O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother!"), and quoting the first two lines of the third stanza of Frances Osgood's poem "The Conversion of St. Paul" (first line: "When silent Noon hung o'er the Syrian land").
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