so harriet beecher stowe, even though the novel goes on to have this great impact we all know about itbegan life as in the o this newspaper so the power of in this struggle over slavery is really striking but of course as as the death elijah lovejoy suggests it wasn't just a war of words. you know, long before the civil war in 1837, when he was killed, the war of words is already bleeding over into a war, a more physical as well. a little bit about the other side of the divide, pro newspapers and editors they, of course, used own newspapers to, get their point of view across to vily abolitionists. one of the things i oftetalk about when i'm taing about the causes of the war is this growing sense of being under from the other side and. editors on both sides became masters of a kinof capital and that kind of feeling and creating it these examples fm, the richmond enquirer, just give you a glimpse into that abolitionist are crazy. they're insane they're out to get us they're outo destroy our way of life, our economy, even our physical safety. th is the way slaveholders were using newspape