In a section of Correspondence, the Editor calls attention to “the reward so daringly offered by the Senate of Georgia for our abduction, is thus noticed by some of our editorial brethren”.  Then there are quotes from several newspapers, including this from the New Bedford Weekly Register:  “this is the most ridiculous and hair-brained project project that we have heard for a long time”.

An article from the Vermont Chronicler, indicates that in Mexico, “immediately upon declaration of independence, a law was passed by the general government for the abolition of slavery throughout the Mexican Republic”.   Later in the article there is a comment which ”commends the whole subject for serious consideration by the people of the United States”.

Here is an article, by Senator Charles Sumner, which is a call for a monument to be made in memory of Col. Shaw.

Here is the Official Proclamation, from Sec. of State William H.  Seward. Declaring that the Amendment has been appropriately ratified and “has become valid, to all intents and purpose, as part of the Constitution of the United States.

The editor comments on the ratification:  “With our own hands we have put in type this unspeakably cheering and important official announcement that, at last, the old ‘covenant with death’ is annulled, and the ‘agreement with hell’ no longer stands.  Not a slave is left to clank his fetters, of the millions that were lately held in seemingly hopeless bondage.  Not a slaveholder may dare to present his claim of property in man, or assume the prerogative of trafficking in human flesh and blood.  Henceforth, personal freedom is secured for all who dwell on the American soil, irrespective of complexion or race.  It is not merely the abolition of slavery , with the old recognized right of each State to establish he system ad libitum; but it is the prohibition, by ‘the supreme law of the land’, duly ratified, to enslave a human being in any part of our national domains, or to restore what has been overthrown.  It is, consequently, the complete triumph as well as utter termination of the Anti-Slavery struggle, as such….”

A New England convention of colored people gathered at the Twelfth Baptist Church, Southac Church. Several resolutions are passed, in substance, urging the right to vote for colored citizens.

In the Refuge of Oppression column comes an article from Richmond, Virginia, signed “Hanover”.   Also in the column is “The Freedmen”, from the Richmond Whig. The articles degrades blacks, and have warnings for the “white breeders of mischief”, responsible in part for Emancipation.

The edition, in the last week of the year, brings an article by Edmund Quincy, written in tribute to Garrison.  “We apprehend that there I no living public man for whom there is felt so sincere and so general a respect.  This is largely and justly owing to his sagacious and statesmanlike conduct during the last five years.  He saw the end from the beginning with a clearness of vision vouchsafed to few of us. He was considerate of difficulties and patient of mistakes, through his discerning of spirits, in circumstances which made many of us almost despair….the name of Garrison can never be separated from that which has struck the chains of slavery from the whites as well as the blacks of America….”

R. P. Randolph, writes to Garrison, from New Orleans, and tells of eight large schools just established, of which he is Principal, named for Garrison.

Here is a series of letters purported to illustrate that Garrison has expressed “satisfaction” with the Mississippi Constitution.  The editor comments:  ” the readers of the Liberator will require no assurance from us that the above-recorded correspondence is a bold and an audacious forgery; but, inasmuch as it is getting extensive publication in the newspapers, without note or comment, as though it were authentic, and therefore multitudes of thoughtless people may regard it as genuine, we are obliged to brand it as fictitious, utterly ridiculous as the whole affair is.”