BAILEY

bailey, gamaliel (1807-1859), american journalist, was born at mount holly, new jersey, on the 3rd of december 1807. he graduated at the jefferson medical college in philadelphia in 1827. after editing for a short time a religious journal, the _methodist protestant_, at baltimore, he removed in 1831 to cincinnati, ohio, where at first he devoted himself almost exclusively to the practice of medicine. he was also a lecturer on physiology at the lane theological seminary, and at the time of the lane seminary debates (february 1834) between the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery students, and the subsequent withdrawal of the latter, he became an ardent abolitionist. in 1836 he joined james g. birney in the editorial control of the _philanthropist_; in the following year he succeeded birney as editor, and conducted the paper in spite of threats and acts of violence--the printing-office being thrice wrecked by a mob--until 1847. from 1843 also he edited a daily paper, the _herald_. in 1847 he assumed control of the new abolitional organ, the _national era_, at washington, d.c. here also his paper was the object of attack by pro-slavery mobs, at one time in 1848 the editor and printers being besieged in their office for three days. this paper had a considerable circulation, and in it, in 1851-1852, mrs. h. b. stowe's _uncle tom's cabin_ was first published. bailey died at sea in the course of a trip to europe on the 5th of june 1859.