"I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer."
Elijah Parish Lovejoy was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, and abolitionist editor. He was killed by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, and became a symbol for press freedom and the antislavery movement. His death intensified abolitionist organizing in the North.