The legislature, however, forthwith passed a law, offering a bribe of $5000 to any person who would arrest and bring to trial and conviction, in Georgia, the editor and publisher of the Boston paper.
Tappan describes a law passed by the Georgia legislature that incentivizes the capture of abolitionist editors, illustrating the lengths to which pro-slavery forces would go.
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