153/376 The senatorial editor of the Belknap Gazette all along manifested a peculiar horror of "niggers" and "nigger parties." Note 6, page 118. The justice before whom Elder Storrs was brought for preaching abolition on a writ drawn by Hon. M.N., Jr., of Pittsfield. The academy at Canaan, N.H., received one or two colored scholars, and was in consequence dragged off into a swamp by Democratic teams. "Papers and memorials touching the subject of slavery shall be laid on the table without reading, debate, or reference." So read the gag-law, as it was called, introduced in the House by Mr. |