Deletion of Austin Willey

Comment: Why on earth would we want to delete this article about a clearly notable 19th century abolitionist leader and newspaper editor?  Nominator, please read  and consider following its wise precepts in the future.  A Google Books search verifies his notability in a matter of seconds.  Why be concerned about the fact that "the vast majority of the article is simply copy-paste from speeches" when these are 19th century speeches and therefore in the public domain?  By no means do I claim that this is even a halfway decent article, but the solution to a poor quality article about a notable topic is to improve the article through the normal editing process rather than deleting the article
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (WP:BEFORE)