A long accounting “To the People of Massachusetts”, from Cushing, telling of the gag-order regarding the anti-slavery petitions in Congress, dated Dec 22,1838, from Washington.
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This Dec 10, 1838 letter is addressed to Garrison, signed simply “A Universalist Abolitionist”. The tone is a sarcastic question, wondering if there is a Universalist periodical which consistently upholds…
Under Refuge of Oppression, there is “from the Hampshire Republican” , no state designated, an article with reference to seven hundred and thirty-five females in Lynn, have petitioned the Legislature…
A letter to Garrison, comes from I. Boutwell, of the Theological Seminary, Andover, dated Dec. 31, 1838. It tells of an African Sabbath School, started in 1832, by a Miss…
Under Refuge of Oppression , and labeled, Polite Letters from the South, one letter, from Somerton, VA, tells the Editor: “You can remain in Boston, and preach your doctrines, but…
Here is an ad for the new paper, published in the city by George Russell, for an Association of Abolitionists. It is expected that Elizur Wright, Jr. Esq, now one…
Notice that a Baltimore paper contains notice that a colored man named John Thomas, who says he is free, and who was born and brought up in Boston, has been…
Under Refuge of Oppression, there is a copy of a Petition presented to the Massachusetts General Court, in which a large number of men from Lynn, mock the recent attempt…
The minutes and resolutions from a meeting chaired by Hall, are in support of the Samaritan Asylum for indigent colored orphans. The meeting was in the Belknap Street School room. …
This is the report of a Special Joint Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, urging that the subject of the slave trade is deserving of immediate attention of the national government.
A long letter from Otis, in which he responds to a report on actions in the Rhode Island Legislature which have been called to his attention. The reference is to…
A notice from the Zion’s Watchman appears here, extracted from a letter dated Oct 21, 1838, from Paris. The letter is from the correspondent of the New York American, no…
From the Christian Reflector, an article, A Penitent Slaveholder. It is signed only, “A Friend of Freedom, O.S.C.” The writer says that his/her father was a slaveholder, and recounts some…
Possibly, or probably, from Prudence Crandall, signed “P. Crandall”. An article in the Massachusetts Abolitionist has caught her attention; evidently the writer has been accused of “meddling improperly with politics”,…
House of Representatives acts to empower the Governor to take steps to insure that citizens of the state who are charged in slave states as being runaway slaves, be given…
The driver of the coach makes it known that he will “have no damned nigger” on his stage. The article includes this comment on the incident: “Such conduct deserves the…
Under of Refuge of Oppression there is a listing of 72 slaves to be sold on March 11, 1839, in New Orleans, indicating age, infirmities, children, etc. of each.
“From a letter to the editor of the Michigan Observer — I have just received a letter from a highly valued friend in Mississippi, who says, ‘I was recently conversing…
An item from New Orleans claims that a ship, named the Gibraltar, from Boston, has “lots of Negroes on board”. The item says, “Who are the owners of the vessel? …
Here is a letter to Garrison, from Abner G. Kirk, Stare Co., Ohio…. The writer says, “I think the weak ought to be protected from the oppression of the strong,…
There is a notice from New Orleans, dated May 11th, stating that public opinion in Texas is much against “the project of some unprincipled speculators, to smuggle slaves from Cuba…
Here is a notice from the Managers addressed to The Abolitionists of Massachusetts. This is in response to Elizur Wright, who has claimed that the Society has virtually given its…
This is a notice from Zion’s Herald, signed in Boston, May 31, by Dan’l Wise; It is clearly in support of the new Massachusetts Abolition Society, and interestingly placed in…
Here is a long piece, well worth a longer look.
Letter from a meeting in New Bedford, gives support to Garrison and the Liberator. In part the meeting says, “That we hold in utter abhorrence ‘The Massachusetts Abolition Society’, recently…
Barely one line, here is a tidbit of sarcasm: “Good. Friend Rogers writes Liberia thus: Lie-bury-ye!”
A July 22, meeting of the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society says, “….we do entirely approve the course which the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society has taken, and that our confidence in its…
A. L. Haskell, writes from Newburyport, July 20th: ” I find the most of our anti-slavery friends firmly united to the parent society, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society….” Then he tells…
Notice of a 175 page book by Chapman, detailing, ” the rise and progress of the schismatical spirit which is now destroying the harmony of the anti-slavery cause, especially in…
Brief notice, by John T. Hilton, Anti-Slavery Intelligence Office, 36 Brattle St., indicating that he receives almost daily requests for colored help, and he “has been induced to try the…
A brief notice …… “it is a case which calls for the sympathy of all true-hearted, impartial lovers of liberty’ that the brave Cinques and his associates have committed no…
A brief item titled, Effrontery: “That pseudo Quaker, and colonization monomaniac, Elliot Cresson, is once more in this Commonwealth, endeavoring to dupe the people out of their money, in support…
A notice from the Hartford, Connecticut Review indicates that the only surviving slave of the General is living in the city of Middletown. He is near one hundred years of…
A long tribute to Lundy, includes a section telling of Garrison’s relation to him, an excerpt of a speech by Lundy, an Obituary, and quotes from previous Liberator references in…
A full first page is devoted to Lecture VIII, from the “Anti-Slavery Lecturer”, under the above title. The editor comments: “We must occupy our present space with further suggestions”; here are…
Calls attention to an appeal from the “Youth’s Cabinet”, and refers to Bro. Southard’s excellent paper. The appeal is evidently from that paper. “Keep the Children Abolitionists. They naturally detest…
Here are shown tables for flowers, refreshments, and reserved spaces of tables from people from nineteen towns.
An item from a “worthy abolitionist in Western New York”: “…. I like the views of The Liberator on political action….. I do not wish to oppose those abolitionists who…
Under Refuge of Oppression – titled “More Southern Thunder!” A report from a Legislative committee in response to the refusal of the Governor of Maine to “deliver up two of…
Here is a copy of the decision of the court in the Amistad case, including these words: “Cinquez and Grabeau shall not sigh for Africa in vain. Bloody as may…
Here is a notice to subscribers, indicating that the paper will continue to publish the names of subscribers who are delinquent fifteen months or more.
Under the heading, ‘A Thrilling Story’, from the Herald of Freedom, here is the story of Mrs. Mary Webster, of Boston, who, after many attempts, is successful in purchasing the…
Here is notice that a gag rule has been passed; there is not enough room to publish it this edition of the paper, but it is labeled as “more odious,…
In this convention there is a resolution affirming the importance of the AASS; the resolution is to be sent to the members of the churches, but there has been some…
It becomes apparent the paper needs money. It is clear that the Editor would prefer not to have to accept advertisements, but will do so. Urges especially advertisement of books,…
A notice appears about a two-day meeting of the Essex County Anti-Slavery Society, to be held in Lynn. Calls for a “strong rallying”; …”Let them evince that abolitionism has indeed…
Pope Gregory XVI acts to urge abolition of slave trade, Dec. 2.1039
The following resolution was adopted by the Vermont ASS: “That those ministers who, with all the light they now enjoy in regard to the sinfullness of the slaveholder, and the…
From the Connecticut Observer, an item from Kelley, Berlin, Feb 3, 1840 Responding to the argument, advanced by many, that public opinion is against having women speak in public meetings,…
Here are resolutions of “a very large body of colored citizens”, March 19th, in the Infant School Room, Belknap St……strong resolutions in support of Garrison and the Liberator. Discussants included…