Rather rare issue of the National Anti-Slavery Standard, the publication of the Anti-Slavery Society, edited by Lydia Maria Child, etc., Published in elephant folio, it was the paper of the day, along with the its partner paper, The Liberator. 

An fascinating issue highlighting the political and idealogical boiling point status of the country on the run up to the Civil War.

A fascinating article reports the claim that a woman's prayer group killed Theodore Parker through prayer as a consequence of his heresy. 

Contents include: Extracts from the Pro-Slavery Press; The Slavery Discussion in The Methodist; What the South is Afraid of; Insurrection at Macon Georgia; Christianity and Color; Southern Disunion; Reports that Theodore Parker was "Prayed to Death" by a Band of Praying Heresy Hunters in Boston who Banded Against Him; Dr. Cheever and His Opponents; The Republican Pledge; A Fugitive Slave Case ; Political Relations; etc. 

National Anti-Slavery Standard Vol. XXI. No. 20. Whole No. 1060. New York. Saturday, September 29, 1860. 4pp. 

A good + copy, bound in wraps that are tender at the folds with some minor associated chipping, lightly shaken, with pages that are a bit handled, and stained as shown.