An item from the Washington Globe, warning that the Massachusetts Legislature “are resolved to make black and white the same”….. It worries that because there is an attempt to make negroes and whites sit on the same railway cars, that the effort will eventuate in the mingling of bloods, …. “It is only necessary now to pass an act to compel the tavern keepers to put the two races in the same bed ….”

From the Boston Traveler, a notice that during 1858, in Boston, nine colored males married to white women, the same number as in 1857.  “There is not an instance reported of the marriage of a white man with a black woman.”  Following this article, is a rant from the National Democrat, saying that any white woman who would marry a negro, “must be among the lowest and most degraded of her sex.”  Then there is a rant against the editor of the Democrat, from the Cleveland Leader.