This pro-abolition article enumerates the population growth from 1790 to 1830, of enslaved people in the United States. The author states, “Every year the demand for emancipation becomes more and more urgent, yet we see not how this is to be effected.” He asks how “the patriot” can “moot measures, which if pushed, threaten to dissolve a glorious union, and breed strife among brethren,” and suggests a course of “moderate action” which he believes “can be effected only by the South.” He also believes that the continued increase in the population of the enslaved will force Southerners to take action.
The Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald was the newspaper in Greenfield, Massachusetts, from June 26, 1827, to June 27, 1837. It changed its name to the Gazette & Mercury.