1867 JOHN. H. GILMER. War of Races. Anti-Lloyd Garrison Abolitionist Argues Against John Brown &c. Premillennialism also preached in the same

also preached in the same house for forty years

which through the two golden pipes

and lightly handled pages

His son was Ovid Butler who helped found what is not Butler University

1867 JOHN. H. GILMER. War of Races. Anti-Lloyd Garrison Abolitionist Argues Against John Brown &c. Premillennialism also preached in the sameA fascinating work by moderate abolitionist John H. Gilmer. A Richmond attorney, he was known for handling the cases of free black and multiracial clients. Long before the Civil War, in 1842, Gilmer argued for a pardon for a free Black man convicted of aiding and advising enslaved people to escape. Richardson D. Smith, the free Black man charged, faced thirteen years in the penitentiary while his white counterpart only served two years. Gilmer was