As a memorial signed by William Cooper Nell, is brought before the Legislature, asking for the vindication and protection of the rights of colored citizens. Rep. Mr. Spofford, of Newburyport rises to protest “I rise to protest, at this early stage of the session, against the introduction of this agitating question of slavery….. there is nothing to be gained by the petition; nothing whatever is asked.” He then moves that when the question comes up, that a vote be taken by yeas and nays, “in order that the people of the Commonwealth may know who the Representatives are who are disposed to continue, throughout the session, “a constant and useless agitation of the slavery question.”

Parker and Beecher have recently participated in a lecture series in the city. Beecher has been assailed by the New York Examinar, an orthodox journal, “subjecting to suspicion the soundness of his own orthodoxy! and Parker as an “infidel”. The editor comes to the defense of the two preachers.

Under the Refuge of Oppression column, an article from the Paris (Kentucky) Flag, begins with a listing of mules, colts, stock cattle which are for sale. The next paragraph then begins, “Negroes sold at very high prices.  Boys eighteen years old from $1,220 to $l,085….”  In the same column, an in item from the Montgomery Confederation continues the listing of “Good Prices for Negroes”

A letter to Garrison, from Rock, indicates that his health has so improved, that he has been able to resume the practice of his profession.  He has had a successful operation. The letter also contains words of thanks to Garrison for his kindness.

“Oregon, with its tyrannical constitution, outlawing all free colored  persons, was admitted to the Union on Saturday last, by a vote of 114 to 103 in the House of Representatives – Comins and Thayer, of this State, voting in the affirmative.!”

Here is an appeal from Susan B. Anthony, directed  To The Readers of The Liberator in the State of New York.  Anthony calls for women to sign and solicit the names of others on a petition to the state legislature “to prevent the capture and return of fugitive slaves”. She calls upon them to remember that “one half of the slave victims are women”.

This notice recalls for readers that Buffum was the first President of the New England (now the Massachusetts) Anti-Slavery Society”

S. M. Seaver, writes from Vermont, proud that “passage of the Personal Liberty Bill by our Legislature must be hailed by every friend of freedom….as an unmistakable sign of the times.”

Two articles, one from the Boston correspondent of the Anti-Slavery Journal, and another from the Boston Christian Watchman, which calls, since the “State is making land about Boston,  for the statue to be thrown in the Back Bay hills and rocks and rubbish of all kinds…or horizontally, in the Frog Pond”.

An account of a Convention, recently held in Worcester, in which fifty clergymen and laymen formed The Church Anti-Slavery Society of the United States.   They could not “be brought to unanimous vote, but settled for a majority vote) in regard to the “inherent sinfulness of slaveholding.  “Fifty is but a small number, but by no means a hopeless number.”