December 31, 1858
A Story from the Atlas & Bee tells of an escaped slave who was on board a boat in the harbor. Judge Russell of the Police Court issues a habeus corpus order, and proceeds with others to the vessel. The Captain of the vessel says the man is missing, it being presumed that he swam ashore with the aid of a plank which was also missing from the deck. The man’s name was Smith, and it is assumed that he had made his way to freedom in Canada.
December 31, 1858
Under the Refuge of Oppression column, here is an extract from a message of the Governor of Florida to the Legislature of that State. He affirms the moral high ground for slavery, and urges the passing of a law which would protect the slaveholder from “molestation”…..I am clearly of the opinion that the result of such a law would be to make hundreds of our citizens actual slave-owners who, without some such encouragement, would probably never own a slave.”
December 10, 1858
An account of a gathering of “personal and political friends” of Giddings, who gave him a dinner at the Parker House.
November 5, 1858
A letter from London, brings encouraging news of the health of Thompson, who has “suffered fearfully from a complication of maladies”.
November 5, 1858
A letter to Garrison, comes from Sarah Clay, writing from Lowell. In it there is high praise for Sarah P. Remond, who “is not so well known to the public” as many lecturers, but who is worthy of much praise.
October 8, 1858
This article criticizes the Board for its failure to prohibit slaveholders from admission to its mission churches among the Cherokees and Choctaws.
September 24, 1858
From the Chelsea Telegraph & Pioneer, there is an article in which reference is made the record of Robert Morris, Esq. “The world is full of prejudices of one kind or another; but among them all, perhaps there is none so singular as that which exists in the mind of the white man against his brother who happens to be born with a skin a few shades darker than his own.” The article then speaks of Morris, praising him as one who disproves the validity of color prejudice, and is much admired as lawyer, as Justice of the Peace , and as neighbor.
September 17, 1858
This notice calls attention to the fact that agents of the government in Hayti, are traveling in the United States, urging the free Negroes of this country and Canada, to emigrate to Hayti.
September 17, 1858
“The American press is, to a fearful extent, in the hands of a cowardly, mercenary and unprincipled class of men, who have no regard for truth in dealing with what is unpopular; who cater to the lowest passions of the multitude, and caricature every movement aiming at the overthrow of established wrong…:” Then follows, example which the editor uses to illustrate his point.
September 10, 1858
Henry C. Wright writes this letter to Garrison, in which he claims that “the social and moral character and condition of a people are known by the relations which women hold to men, and by the respect paid to them as women, as wives, as mothers, and in families, what must be the character and condition of the slave States?” He presents statistics to support the conclusion that there is a “national brothel”, a “national harem”.
