Boston Courier announces publication of a controversial lithograph.

Later entitled “I’m not to blame for being white, sir!”, the lithograph is published by G.M. Cottrell, proprietor of a bookstore on Cornhill. It depicts Sen. Charles Sumner giving coins to a black beggar, but not to a white one. Several weeks later, The Liberator announces publication of another version of the print, in which Sumner is depicted replying to the white beggar: “True, my girl, but charity ought to begin where it is most needed, and you, certainly, are the better off, having more friends and less oppressors.”