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GAMALIEL (1807-18J9), See also:American journalist, was See also:born at See also:Mount See also:Holly, New See also:Jersey, on the 3rd of See also:December 1807. He graduated at the See also:Jefferson Medical See also:College in See also:Philadelphia in 1827. After editing for a See also:short See also:time a religious See also:journal, the Methodist See also:Protestant, at See also:Baltimore, he removed in 1831 to See also:Cincinnati, See also:Ohio, where at first he devoted himself almost exclusively to the practice of See also:medicine. He was also a lecturer on See also:physiology at the See also:Lane Theological See also:Seminary, and at the time of the Lane Seminary debates (See also:February 1834) between the See also:pro-See also:slavery and the See also:anti-slavery students, and the subsequent withdrawal of the latter, he became an ardent abolitionist. In 1836 he joined See also:James G. See also:Birney in the editorial See also:control of the Philanthropist; in the following See also:year he succeeded Birney as editor, and conducted the See also:paper in spite of threats and acts of violence—the See also:printing-See also:office being thrice wrecked by a See also:mob -until 1847. From 1843 also he edited a daily paper, the See also:Herald. In 1847 he assumed control of the new abolitional See also:organ, the See also:National Era, at See also:Washington, D.C. Here also his paper was the See also:object of attack by pro-slavery mobs, at one time in 1848 the editor and printers being besieged in their office for three days. This paper had a considerable circulation, and in it, in 1851-1852, Mrs. H. B.

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Stowe's See also:Uncle Tom's See also:Cabin was first published. See also:Bailey died at See also:sea in the course of a trip to See also:Europe on the 5th of See also:June 1859.

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