Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Alton, Ill.” in alphabetic letter A, entry group 1, entry abolitionists of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...was mobbed in Boston, and escaped from the country in disguise, in November, 1835.
On Nov. 7, 1837, Elijah P. Lovejoy (q. v.), a Presbyterian minister, who had established an abolition newspaper in Alton, Ill. , was mobbed and shot to death.
These occurrences did not cease entirely until the beginning of the Civil War. in 1861.
In the South rewards were offered for the capture of prominent abolitionists...
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