. . . the finding in the Ottumwa Democratic Mercury a column of abuse aimed at the Rev. Geo. B. Jocelyn. The subject is introduced in the following neat and complimentary manner:
‘Rev Geo B Jocelyn, delivered an abolition ten cent lecture in this city on Monday evening. It was remarkable for nothing but being an attempt to imitate the fanaticism of Wendell Phillips, and the oratory of Clay Dean.’
When persons so faultless in their lives, so prudent and unpretending in their utterances and so sound in their opinions as Rev Jocelyn, are compelled to encounter such an avalanche of abuse and vituperation as this, we feel assured things must soon culminate. The time is not far distant when this creature, Hendershot, and his co-laborer, Mahoney will arrive at a realizing sense of their own infamy and be glad to crawl out of view and seek relief in oblivion. We should like to hear this abolition ten cent lecture.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1
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