December 27, 1844
A petition to the Senate and House of the United States Congress. It ends, ” your memorialists, disclaiming citizenship, and repudiating the present Constitution as a ‘covenant with death, and an agreement with hell’, ask you to take immediate measures by a National Convention, or otherwise, for dissolving the Union of these States.”
December 20, 1844
Here are petitions to the Senate and House of the Commonwealth, and to the Congress of the United States, against the annexation of Texas.
December 6, 1844
Jonathan Walker has been sentenced to stand in the pillory for one hour, to be imprisoned for fifteen days, to pay a fine of one hundred and sixty dollars, and to be branded in the right hand with the letters S.S. (Slave Stealer is meant)
November 22, 1844
The Mayor has withdrawn his permission for several speakers of “this Garrison Anti-Slavery Society” to speak, and this is a letter from citizens, commending his refusal.
November 15, 1844
Here is a recapitulation of votes for Polk, and gubernatorial votes, and Congressional Districts in Massachusetts. In regard to the Liberty Party, it has not done well in Massachusetts, and it “has scarcely held its own in other states. There must be a great deal of mortification felt, if very little exhibited, by its leaders, especially by Messrs. Birney and Leavitt.”
November 15, 1844
An article from the British and Foreign A.S. Reporter, tells of the exclusion of a colored gentleman, who nevertheless, “had been allowed to pay full fare”, from the Acadia, of the Cunard lines.
November 8, 1844
A notice about a series of lectures offered by this group, in addition to commending exhibitions by the group. “We are pleased to learn that the subject of Human Rights receives not inconsiderable attention and discussion among these youths, and that true freedom has its young champions among them.”
October 25, 1844
A letter from Garrison, indicating that, under advice of medical counsel, he must give up lecturing at the present time. “But this withdrawal, I trust, will enable me to devote myself more assiduously and uninterruptedly to my editorial labors, than I have been able to do hitherto.”
October 18, 1844
From this Portland Bulletin, here is intense criticism: “Their meetings are always held as Abolition Conventions; and thus, under the pretense of helping the poor slaves, it is ‘the infernal church and clergy’ that ‘must be put down’. We make these remarks to let our readers know what sort of people the majority of these come-outers are. The best way is to keep away from their meetings, ‘lest we touch pitch, and get defiled’”.
October 4, 1844
Under the Refuge of Oppression there is an article from the Boston Mercantile Journal, very critical of Kelley. On page three there is a strong response. “The editor of this Journal is one of those unprincipled, time-serving men, whose rule of right is popular opinion, and who are as incapable of appreciating as they are of performing great and noble deeds in the cause of humanity…” It goes on to name the article as vulgar and brutal “in derogation of that gifted and philanthropic woman, the ornament of her sex, Abby Kelley…..