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Low (LFRED MAURICE an became)

A(LFRED) MAURICE, an became strongly anti-slavery, though Anglo-American journalist and writer; always opposing immediate and uncon- born in London in 1860. He was educated ditional abolition. His articles created at King's College, London, and in Ausgreat excitement, and when his office was finally wrecked by a mob in 1836 he decided to remove his paper to Alton, Ill. Here three presses were destroyed by mobs. The fourth press was placed in a stone warehouse, which Lovejoy and some of his friends defended. The house was surrounded by a mob and the roof set on fire. In attempting a sally Lovejoy was shot and killed, Nov. 7, 1837. A monument was erected to his memory, at Alton, in 1897.