The Free Kirk and her boy Tammy.
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1846?]
In two columns.
Beneath the title - 'Scene - Boy Tammy sitting at a table scouring some suspicious-looking coppers with intellectual sand, and a leaf of the Bible'.
Tune - "My boy Tammy".
Tammy = Thomas Chalmers?
The newly formed Free Church, was, in 1844, deeply in need of financial support, for this reason it sent a deputation to the United States to raise funds. This broadside is an attack on the acceptance by William Cunningham (part of the deputation) and the others, of contributions towards Free Church funds from the Presbyterian churches in the slave-holding states of America. Thomas Chalmers was at this time the Moderator of the new Free Church. Frederick Douglass, the American abolitionist, in a visit to Scotland, spoke against the Free Church of Scotland for accepting this money from American slave-owners.
First lines read: Enter Mother Kirk. / " Whaur gat ye the bawbees? my boy Tammy; / Whaur forgather'd ye wi' these? my boy Tammy.
Cunningham, William, 1805-1861
Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Free Church of Scotland