Category: <span>1843</span>

January 27, 1843 An item from the Lexington Baptist Pioneer, is titled, “Spirit of Texas”.  It is from a clergyman who “represents Texas”, who writes to the editor of the Commercial…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1843 Mexican War Texas Annexation

January 20, 1843 An announcement of the Latimer Committee that they now have forty eight thousand names on petitions, and the goal is to have one hundred thousand “sons and…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1843 Latimer, George Petition Drives

January  13, 1843 A call for more petitions, signed by H.I. Bowditch, indicates that at least twenty thousand names, exclusive of Suffolk County, have been secured on petitions, and assurance…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1843 Bowditch, H.I. Latimer, George Petition Drives

January  13, 1843 Here is an account of  “A Church Mob, with the Minister at the Head of It”, which disturbed an abolitionist lecture in a Congregational Church in Phipsburg, Maine.…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1843 Churches Latimer, George Remond, Lenox

January 6, 1843 “Has every town done its utmost?……It is an imperative duty on the part of all persons, who would petition for any cause on their own behalf,  to…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1843 Chapman, Maria Weston Petition Drives

January 6, 1843 In the first issue of the year there is an article of three columns, signed only by the initials E. Q., (probably Edmund Quincy) strongly deprecating the…

* ALL ARTICLES CHRONOLOGICALLY 1843 Liberty Party Quincy, Edmund