Editing Lane Seminary (section)

===The threat of violence===
Cincinnati was convulsed as never before.<ref name=Mahan/>{{rp|175}} Rumors circulated during the summer of 1834 about mob violence against the Seminary; the threat of violence had caused [[Miami University of Ohio]] to ban the discussion of abolition.<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|126}} Cincinnati, largely pro-Southern,<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|4}} had already experienced the anti-black [[Cincinnati riot of 1829]]; and the huge [[New York anti-abolitionist riots (1834)|anti-abolition riots in New York in July 1834]], which specifically targeted the Tappans, were heavily reported in the Cincinnati newspapers.<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|117}} In 1835, after the [[whipping of Amos Dresser]], a Lane student, in [[Nashville]], newspapers of that city "warn[ed] the leaders of that institution to be cautious how they proceed."<ref>{{cite news
|title=(Untitled)
|newspaper=[[The Tennessean|National Banner and Nashville Whig]] ([[Nashville, Tennessee]])
|date=19 Aug 1835
|page=3
|others=Reprinted from the ''Cincinnati Whig''
|via=[[newspapers.com]]
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92810558/amos-dresser-various-things/
|access-date=January 17, 2022
|archive-date=January 18, 2022
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182626/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92810558/amos-dresser-various-things/
|url-status=live
}}</ref>