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To-morrow evening at 7 o'clock the Young Men's Christian Association meet for the discussion of the following resolution: "Resolved, That the dissolution of the Union at no distant day is inevitable." Affirmative---M.V. Barney, Henry L. Pratt. Negative---Austin S. Fisk, Hopkins Wood. Essay by E. B. Parsons. The doors are open to all. Ladies and gentlemen are invited to attend.

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The Y.M.C.A. came to North America in 1851 and quickly spread throughout the United States and Canada. Its first purpose was to gather young men for Bible study, but it soon grew beyond that. In 1860 this Greenfield event was offering a typical program for the day, a lyceum-type debate. The debate posed the many problems the United States was facing in its attempt to grapple with the issue of slavery. Here, two members had worked up arguments in favor of the inevitability of secession, debating two others who argued otherwise.

 

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Young Men's Christian Association Meeting

publisher   Greenfield Gazette and Courier
date   Jan 30, 1860
location   Greenfield, Massachusetts
height   1.0"
width   2.5"
process/materials   printed paper, ink
item type   Periodicals/Newspaper
accession #   #L02.105


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See Also...

"Union and Liberty"

"The Inaugural"

"Legislature- slave hunting petition"

Y.M.C.A., East Deerfield, Mass.


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