VOL. XXX. / NO. 27—BOSTON. 4 pp., 6 columns, measuring 17.5 x 24.5”. Exhibits fold-marks and  a soiled and  faded upper right corner, which exhibits chipping at the margins, a small 1.5”  triangular patch torn from the Liberator masthead. Else good plus, , and entirely legible. 

Edited by William Lloyd Garrison, “The Liberator” was the first and most influential of the pre-war Abolitionist newspapers. The newspaper’s credo and motto - “No Union With Slaveholders - The United States is a covenant with death and covenant with hell” - appears in upper right corner. This issue appeared shortly after Abraham Lincoln received the Republican presidential nomination at the Chicago “Wigwam.” 

Cover page contains a reprint of a Southern View of  “The Irrepressible Conflict”, written by Baptist minister “Jas. B. Taylor, which is forcefully rebutted on page four. Also reprinted  are excerpts of press reaction to “The Barbarism of Slavery,” Charles Sumner’s famed anti-slavery address delivered in the US Senate, with the northern anti-slavery press being given the last word.  

The paper goes on to castigate Republican nominee Abraham Lincoln from every angle for not being an Abolitionist. John Brown is praised as one whose “moral dignity survives his mental hallucination,” and “whose soul was too large for the brain by which it acted.” 

W. L. Garrison’s “Liberators” are scarce. Excellent newspaper collectible.