Reprint of incendiary call from the Windham Advertiser
Windham Advertiser 1834-12-19
The Unionist 1834-03-13
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*The Advertiser of the 19 th of last December contained the following article:
To all whom it may concern. —From what we can learn, we have great reason to believe that a determination has been formed to BREAK UP the negro school in Canterbury by some means or other in less than two months. We by no means wish to encourage such a determination. And we seriously hope that our belief is not sufficiently authorized.—The best way is to wait patiently and let the law take its own course, and to let all doubts as to its constitutionality be indulged to their utmost extent. The peaceable and undisturbed manner however, in which the Instructress has of late been permitted to go on with her school, in violation of a law which the people of this state have deliberately enacted could hardly have been expected by her. And we have no hesitation in saying that but few towns in this or any other State, would have shown so much forbearance towards such an establishment, as have the people of Canterbury. We were not aware until we were so informed by our correspondent last week, that the number of the scholars now in attendance at the abolition school was so great. We know that great efforts have been made by its abettors, since the decision of Chief Justice Daggett, to fill up the benches of the school house, and to increase the grievances and insults of our citizens, but we did not know until recently that, those efforts had succeeded to the amount of “more than thirty wenches,” who are sent from all quarters of the globe!
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Note here the insulting language of “wenches” but also the high number of thirty students, and their (alleged) internationalism!
