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Sidney Edwards Morse

Sidney Edwards Morse (7 February 1794 Charlestown, Massachusetts – 24 December 1871 New York City) was an American inventor, geographer and journalist. He was the brother of telegraphy pioneer and painter Samuel F. B. Morse.

Have the American people ever been abandoned by God to the folly and wickedness of practically asserting the right of every negro slave to liberty, without regard to the probable effect of the liberty of the negro upon the welfare of the community?: 12 

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Does the Bible any where assert that all men have a right to liberty; or that slavery is always wrong; or that slaveholders are sinners merely because they are slaveholders; or that the governments instituted among men have no just powers except those derived from the consent of the governed ?: 6 

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The New York Observer was pro-slavery. It was the one newspaper that Mary Brown, wife of abolitionist John Brown, could not stand:


Morse is the author of Premium questions on slavery, each admitting of a yes or no answer; addressed to the editors of the "New York Independent'" and "New York Evangelist," in which there are questions such as:

A New System of Modern Geography (Boston, 1823), sold over half a million copies

Premium Questions on Slavery (New York, 1860)

North American Atlas

Cerographic Maps, comprising the Whole Field of Ancient and Modern, including Sacred, Geography, Chronology, and History

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Morse, Jedidiah" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

public domain

and 1856 map of Texas by Sidney E. Morse, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

1844 map of Texas

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Sidney Edwards Morse