December 28, 1860
The South Carolina Convention met on November 20. An ordinance was passed unanimously by 169 people, declaring that “the union now subsisting between South Carolina and the other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.”
December 21, 1860
Theodore Parker’s Congregational Society met at the Music Hall, where Wendell Phillips spoke. He was mobbed in the streets, protected by the police.
December 14, 1860
A long article, signed by C.K.W., gives a detailed account of the event, including an account of the re-convened meeting at the Joy Street church. Among those who were on the platform, and speakers, were Wendell Phillips, Maria Chapman, Frederick Douglass, F. B.Sanborn, and John Brown, Jr.
December 7, 1860
The meeting was to be a third anniversary of the Martyrdom of John Brown, to be held at Tremont Temple. The content of the long article is captured in these headings at the beginning of the article: “The Meeting forcibly suppressed by order of Mayor Lincoln, who thus virtually headed the mob, but who is soon to receive his ‘walking ticket’- Resolutions adopted by the rioters, free Anti-Slavery Speech no longer to be tolerated, yet triumphant in the evening at the Joy Street Church - brutal assault upon colored citizens –Second Battalion under arms…”
November 23, 1860
The story is of a large gathering, Nov. 17th, in Charleston, S.C., hoisting the State flag, with the people “vowing that the stars and stripes would never wave again in Charleston”.
November 23, 1860
An account of a recent meeting of the School Street Universalist Church, “to consider the suffering condition of our frontier Indians”. Those present resolve to call for a Boston Convention on the subject, to be held in January, 1861.
November 23, 1860
An urgent appeal for “every family and every person”, to continue the two-year campaign to have the “no slave-hunting” legislation adopted in the state.
November 9, 1860
Announcement of the votes for Lincoln and for John Andrew for Governor.
November 2, 1860
This article, from the N.Y. Journal of Commerce, appears in the Refuge of Oppression column. A few words give a sense of its point. “The native African is an habitual drunkard, a thief, a liar, revengeful, licentious, groveling in his habits, almost destitute of natural affection, unprogressive in character, and in religion a devotee of the obscene mysteries of Fetichism… The negroes held in slavery in the United States are much better off, physically and morally, than their ignorant and degraded brothers in Africa….only those who own slaves can abolish slavery, and ….every imprudent, or concealed, or violent opposition on the part of Northern men, does more injury than good, and impedes the advancement of genuine humanity.”
October 26, 1860
Here, on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of this event, is a full page from the Liberator of Nov 7, 1835, a letter about the event from George Thompson, and comment by the editor. “Most of the prominent actors in that disgraceful outbreak have gone to their ‘final account’; but the glorious cause which they madly strove to crush is still going on, ‘conquering and to conquer’. Laus Deo!”