December 10, 1841
“Nearly twenty colored men lost their votes in one ward, because their names were left off the voting lists. So with many white men. Let every voter call at 32 Washington Street, Liberty Reading Room, and see if his name is on the new list.”
November 19, 1841
An item from the N.Y. Herald, says that terrible practice of ‘lynch law’ is spreading in the South. “Men are now lynched by the dozens, instead of singly; and their murderers seem to progress in the very refinement of cruelty…”
October 22, 1841
Here are two columns listing the anti-slavery mottoes on the Wafers Samples: “Love God above and , and thy neighbor as thyself, and slavery would disappear from the earth.”
“The church which tolerates slavery, tolerates sin, and is no true church.”
“Are not all men brothers? How can one be the slave, the property of another?”
October 15, 1841
These “wafers” are designed for sealing letters, and are available at 25 Cornhill. “They constitute a valuable addition to the means of usefulness already possessed by abolitionists. Each sheet contains ninety-eight appropriate mottoes, selected with great care. Price six cents single, 25 sheets for one dollar.”
October 1, 1841
Records her presence and participation. “Among those who cheered the meeting with their presence were two of those of the rejected delegates to the pseudo ‘world’s convention”, Lucretia Mott and Sara Pugh…. Mott’s participation was “much to the edification and delight of all who listened to her.”
October 1, 1841
Here is an item from the Congregational Journal, a letter signed by T. P. Beach, dated Aug 2, 1841, in Campton (no state) …. Beach has stepped down from the pulpit, and endeavors to “strip myself of the whole armor of sect, that I might go forth against the enemies of God and man, with the simple principles of truth as my only weapons….”
October 1, 1841
Under Refuge of Oppression, the record of a public meeting in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
Here is an assertion that “the citizens of the State of Mississippi have the constitutional right to hold such persons as were slaves within the United States prior to 1808, and their descendents, who have not been lawfully emancipated, and who now are within its territory, to servitude………we hold the property in our slaves, under the broad sanction of the constitution of the United States ……”
September 17, 1841
With high praise notes the graduation of Thomas Paul, son of the late Rev. Thomas Paul. “He is now in Boston, anxious to employ his talents and educational attainments in the best possible manner. He would like to act as a teacher, or (as he is an excellent penman) be employed in writing. …..We have written this article without the knowledge of Mr. Paul, and simply because we know that he is anxious to obtain some employment, and because we think he richly deserves patronage.”
September 3, 1841
Here is the story of Henry. H. White, sentenced for ten years in January, 1837, on the charge of being an accessory (his brother being the principal, and acquitted), charged with burning the Treasury building on April 1, 1833. After four and one-half years of confinement, he has been released by the President of the United States, on the ground of his supposed innocence. The presiding Judge, the District Attorney, the Foreman of the Jury, and all the jurors, and other citizens have signed a petition, asking for his release. “This conviction should be a warning to judges and jurors, to be extremely cautious in inflicting severe punishment on any man, without indubitable testimony. The incarceration of this man for four years and a half, and the liberating him one thousand Illinois), without any pecuniary means, is enough to drive him, from necessity, to the commission of crime. We are informed that he left here, on foot, for Chicago, Illinois, with only five dollars to pay his way! Washington Globe”
September 3, 1841
Under a title, Life in New Orleans, there is a listing of six advertisements which offer rewards varying from $5 to $100, from slaveholders, for the return of slaves who have run away. Each has a description of the runaway, indicating scars, burns, wounds on the bodies which will help identify them. After copying these advertisements, the editor has this comment: ”Scars – burns – whip-marks – teeth knocked out – slit ears !! behold the march of humanity! The foregoing are copied from the New Orleans Picayune and the Bulletin. —- Philanthropist”