December 26, 1856
“We shall commence the new volume with a new and handsome typographical dress, not because of an increasing patronage, (for our circulation is still very inadequate), but because such a dress is needed at this time.”
December 26, 1856
A notice that Brown will be on his way soon to western New York, and Ohio, “to deliver his inimitable Drama, ‘How to Give a Northern Man a Backbone’ He deserves crowded houses.”
December 26, 1856
Eighty-five names of persons from Worcester and its surrounding area, invite citizens of the state to meet in a Disunion Convention, to be held in Worcester, on January 15th.
December 12, 1856
A letter from Webster, Feb 15th is sent to a Rev. Dr. Furness, who had written to Webster earlier. In it Webster recounts his life-long abhorrence of slavery, and its unchristian nature. He writes of the effect of moral causes, which though slow are sure, and states his belief that both the progress and the result must be left in the hand of God, ” who sees the end from the beginning, and in whose sight a thousand years are but a single day.”
October 24, 1856
A letter to Garrison, from Henry C. Wright, tells of an Anti-Slavery Convention, in which a resolution was passed urging disunion. “The people of the non-slaveholding states owe to themselves and to their posterity , and to justice, liberty and humanity, so long and so horribly outraged by the present American Union, to call town, county and state Conventions to consider the expediency and duty of forming a Northern Republic, on the basis of ‘No Union with Slaveholders’”.
September 12, 1856
The Springfield Republican tells of a lecture by Anthony, at the close of the session of the Normal School Convention. Her subject was, “Is it desirable that the sexes should be educated together?” “The address was listened to with profound attention, and frequently interrupted with applause.”
September 12, 1856
Eight Boston men, including James Freeman Clarke, appeal for clothing to be sent to Kansas, where all is chaos, where the government is at an end, where “the slave power has effected a bloody coup-d’etat over the ill-fated territory….”
September 12, 1856
Notice that the city will have a holiday on the day when the statue of Franklin is to be “inaugurated”, in front of City Hall, on the 17th of September.
September 5, 1856
The colored citizens met in the vestry of the Twelfth Baptist Church, with John J. Smith, calling the meeting to order. The meeting resolves to endorse the election of Fremont and Dayton . It resolves against a portion of the Republican platform, which endorses the Kansas free State Constitution, which prohibits colored men from going into that territory, and shows that the party is not an anti-slavery party. John Rock’s speech is praised. John Smith speaks, urging people to see that their taxes are paid and that their names are on the voting roles. There is reference to a petition to the Mayor, asking that the word ‘colored’ be struck from the voting lists and tax bills.
August 8, 1856
A dispatch from Columbus, S.C. affirms the re-election of Brooks, to Congress.