January 20, 1860 At a recent session of the Legislature there was an attempt to remove the word ‘white’ from the militia law. The Governor, (Banks), vetoed the measure. The…
Category: <span>1860</span>
January 20, 1860 Sarah P. Remond, writing from London, describes how her sister, Mrs. Putnam, and friends had bought first-class tickets from Boston to Liverpool, but were not allowed to…
January 13, 1860 Announcement of the debate to be at the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, January 16th. The question to be debated: “Has Garrisonian Abolitionism been of any practical…
January 13, 1860 Here is an account of the fall of the Pemberton Mills, in which seven hundred people were buried in the ruins, and two hundred lives were lost…
January 13, 1860 Here there is comment on two poems by Whittier, both on the final page of this edition. “… we think there is not the same magnanimous recognition…
January 13, 1860 The item from the Cincinnati Commercial says that thirty-six persons have arrived there, having been warned to leave Kentucky “for the crime of believing slavery to be…
January 6, 1860 Derived from the New York Independent, here is the story of James Power, a native of Wexford, Ireland, twenty-three years of age, a stone-cutter by trade. He…
January 6, 1860 “With this number we commence the thirtieth volume of the Liberator. It has been a long, desperate, eventful, ‘irrepressible conflict’ with the most ferocious and satanic system…