Talk:William Rounseville Alger
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Shuri42 in topic Controversy
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 | A fact from William Rounseville Alger appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 10:49, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
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William Rounseville Alger
- ... that William Rounseville Alger's (pictured) 1857 Fourth of July speech was so controversial that the city of Boston refused to print it for seven years? Source: Rand, John C. (1890). One Of a Thousand : A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident In The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888–'89. Boston: First National Pub. Co. p. 11. Retrieved 4 December 2021 – via Open Library.
Created by Shuri42 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:09, 5 December 2021 (UTC).
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Article is new enough, long enough and well sourced. The hook is cited and interesting. qpq is not needed since the nominator only has 1 dyk credit. This one looks ready to go! BuySomeApples (talk) 19:43, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
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Controversy
editWhy was his speech controversial? What did he say that people found objectionable? FloridaArmy (talk) 03:42, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
- The source just says: it "created a sensation by its bold treatment of the slavery question... [they printed it] seven years later, when the prophecies of the orator had been fulfilled". So apparently he made some predictions regarding slavery that came true. Given that he was an abolitionist it's not hard to guess what side of "the slavery question" he was on, but if you want to read the speech it's linked in his published works. Shuri42 (talk) 17:22, 27 December 2021 (UTC)