December 29, 1854
The Evening Telegraph says that Burns has been sold to “a North Carolina negro trader, (after $1400 had been tendered both here and in Virginia, and after he had promised to let Rev. Mr. Grimes have him), for the sum of $700, with a condition in the bond that he should never be sold to go North. And this is the fate of this poor victim.”
December 29, 1854
From Frederick Douglass’s Paper, comes a letter signed by Laura. S. Holland, telling of the severe treatment of Fairbanks at the hands of Kentucky authorities, by whom he is held in prison. “When such diabolical deeds are being committed without the utterance of a disapproving sentence from a vast majority, we have no grounds to hope for reformation only in Revolution….”
December 22, 1854
Here is notice of a recent session of the Methodist Conference, which has taken action to declare abhorrent the Fugitive Slave Law, and slavery. Its action urges that the next General Conference to take action to “exclude all slaveholding from the M. E. Church.”
December 1, 1854
A letter to Garrison, from W. H. Fish, no address given, (Worcester area assumed) tells of a social gathering of abolitionists in Blackstone, an Anti-Slavery Social Party. The party originated with “a very few anti-slavery ladies… who carried it through it through in a spirit and manner highly creditable to their interest and zeal in the cause.” Tappan, Higginson, Stephen Foster spoke, and seventy-five dollars above expenses was raised.
November 17, 1854
From the Richmond Enquirer, comes notice that Anthony Burns has left Richmond, in possession of David McDaniel, Esq., of Nash County, N.C., who purchased him for the purpose of putting him to work in a cotton field, or where duty calls.”
November 17, 1854
Here is an item which indicates that Beecher has recently, in a lecture, avowed himself “a convert to the doctrine in women’s voting !!!” He indicated ” that though we might not live to see this reform, “it was certain to come as the earth to continue its motion.”… “The only inconsistency in his remarks was his expressing hope that his wife and sisters would never wish to speak in public, though he would not oppose it if they did.” The article then comments that “Women need no one to assert their right to speak in public, for they have secured that already.”
November 10, 1854
The Herald reports that “the Smith School is in bad condition -” but little progress, slim attendance and bad discipline are its characteristics. There are eighty scholars belonging to the school, and only thirty-four attended the examination, some of them being restricted from attendance by the prevalence of small pox in the neighborhood.”
November 10, 1854
Here is an account of the case brought by Mr. Pindall, whose son has been ejected from a school on grounds of his color. The decision affirms that the School Committee may establish separate schools; this will be appealed by Mr. Morris. Included is a petition by William Cooper Nell, asking for legislation to establish equal privileges of the common schools for children of color
November 10, 1854
A notice to the Friends of the paper, signed by Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson, and an action of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, indicates the desire to engage larger numbers of people in the movement. It is circulating twenty tracts for wide distribution. They are “concise, pithy, and stringent, and specially adapted to the present crisis ….the work must not be postponed…”
November 3, 1854
The Christian Ambassador, the organ of the Universalists of New York, urges that Tufts College, “soon to be opened near Boston” be “opened freely to both sexes”. It points with pride to Antioch College, as an example of a flourishing College which is open to female students.