FREEDMEN COMING NORTH (Liberator, Aug 25, 1865, pg 3) -The telegraph reports the arrival at New York of a party of colored people from the South, en route from Rhode…
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There are in Washington nine colored day schools, whose teachers are supported by tuition fees. There are also twenty five free schools, supported by Northern philanthropy, and eight free morning…
Garrison at Charleston April A correspondent of the New York Tribune has some paragraphs about the visit to Fort Sumter. It includes a presentation made to Garrison…
The Board of Overseers of Harvard College have voted , 18 to 4, to accept the act of the Legislature, dissolving the connection of the College with the Commonwealth. The…
LLOYD GARRISON SCHOOLS —- COLORED Mr. Garrison is told by the Principal of one that they have recently opened eight schools for colored students in New Orleans “We are proud…
An Interesting Pamphlet We have received, in a handsome pamphlet form, the Proceedings of the National Convention of Colored Men, held in Syracuse, N.Y. on the 4th, 5th. 6th and…
Paid Off The Massachusetts 54th regiment, of colored troops, has been paid off by the government in full to Aug. 31. The soldiers have sent back to their families and…
A few days ago, a mob of four or five hundred Irish longshoremen in Chicago attacked a party of a dozen negro laborers working on a lumber dock, and compelled…
BENJAMIN LUNDY (From Greeley’s History of the Rebellion) Benjamin Lundy deserves the high honor of ranking as the pioneer of direct and distinctive anti-slavery in America……. In the year 1815,…
PETITION FOR AN AMBULANCE SYSTEM, Boston, October, 1863 The undersigned , feeling a common interest in the safety and comfort of those known and unknown to them, who are engaged…
Readings From the Poets. Under this title, Madame Louise de Mortie gave, in Mechanics’ Hall, last evening, an entertainment far surpassing in excellence any similar one ever given here. She…
The Colored Regiment at Readville. The Regiment now numbers nearly three hundred men, and recruits come at the rate of about ten a day. Thus far only ten line officers…
V Meeting in Aid of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment Mass.Vols. A meeting in aid of the Fifty-fourth Regioment, Col. Shaw, was held at a private home on Tuesday, March 3. In…
A Massachusetts Black Regiment. The proposed colored Massachusetts regiment, will be numbered the 54th, and will go into camp at Worcester. Captain N. P. Hallowell, of the Mass. 20th, and…
FIRST CATHOLIC CONGREGATION OF BOSTON 1. This church is designed to be a school of Biblical and Moral Science, and to adopt systematic and thorough courses of instruction in the…
Massachusetts and the War – Statistics at the Adjutant General’s office show that Massachusetts has contributed for the war 58,214 three-years men, which with the three months and nine months…
Garrison on the Emancipation Proclamation January 9, 1863 , The Liberator “…however effectual may be the President’s Emancipation Proclamation in breaking the chains of the bondmen in such rebellious sections…
The contrabands at Cairo, Ill., number from 800 to 1000, and are in most miserable condition, suffering intensely for want of necessary clothing and bedding. Two are reported by the…
Meeting of the Loyal Governors. Governor Andrew arrived in New York yesterday morning, on his way to attend a meeting of the Governors of all the loyal States, at Altona,…
The following is an extract of a late speech delivered at Newport, R.I., by Senator Hale, of New Hampshire, upon the war: — “I don’t know what to think of…
An English Estimate of Wendell Phillips — “An English Traveller” writes from Boston to the London Spectator: — “The real pillar of the abolitionist party is Wendell Phillips. Gifted with…
Nearly all the Governors of the loyal States, having subscribed their names, officially, to a letter to the President of the United States, urging an immediate and extensive augmentation of…
From Texas – Rumored Plan to Restore The Sate to the Union – New York, June 7th. The Tribune editorially says: “We learn through a private channel, in which we…
THE CALL UPON MASSACHUSETTS FOR MORE TROOPS Gov. Andrew’s Reply to the War Department. – The New York Tribune, of Friday last, prints the following letter from Gov. Andrew, of…
Letters say the roads to Washington are black with contrabands. They are coming not in squads, but in battalions. (Liberator, 1862, April 11, pg…
Why the Rebels Appointed a Fast Day. In Jeff Davis’s proclamation appointing a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, he assigns this curious reason, among others: — “The termination of…
John Stuart Mills, the able English writer on political economy, characterizes the rebellion of the South as “treason of the worst sort — a revolt against the highest form of…
Washington is to be illuminated on Saturday night. The day being the historic 22nd of February, President Lincoln has issued a proclamation, recommending to the people of the United States…
THE EDITOR’S PROGRESS REPORTED During Mr. Garrison’s absence, those of his friends who do not take the Standard will be glad to see the following incident of his visit to…
Stampede of Slaves — New Creek, Va., Oct. 14 Six slaves from near Romney came into camp to-day. They were pursued until within six miles of our camp by the…
During his last trip to England, 1867, Garrison was named as the “preeminent Agitator” of the century, …
At a Garrison Memorial Meeting, in the 15th Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, on June 2, 1879, Douglass was the principal eulogist. Robert Purvis, long-time friend of Garrison, chaired the gathering. …
John Bright Upon the War. John Bright, in a recent speech at Rochdale, England, alluded to the war in this country, and, among other things said: “I say that the…
ANTI-SLAVERY CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH OF JULY The usual Anti-Slavery Celebration of Independence Day, in mass meeting, will be held in the beautiful commodious Grove at FRAMINGHAM, on Thursday, July…
Mails Stopped. We believe we are, at last, relieved of the duty of paying the postage expenses of the Seceded States, which have been costing the government at the rate…
New York, May 21 The Tribune says the government yesterday seized the accumulated manuscript of despatches of twelve months, in every considerable telegraph office of the free States. The government…
Newburyport, April 24 Hon. Caleb Cushing, in a speech, at the raising of an American flag in this city this afternoon, announced that his fortune and services were at the…
MRS. MALINDA NOLL gratefully returns her thanks to the kind friend who have assisted her in efforts to purchase her sons, and takes this opportunity to announce that, after having…
AN APPEAL FROM Twelfth Baptist Church The ladies of the Twelfth Baptist Church in Southac street, over which Rev.; Mr. Grimes is pastor, are preparing to hold a FAIR about…
A LINCOLN MAN TARRED AND FEATHERED ON A MISSISSIPPPI STEAMBOAT — The Wilkesbarre (Pa.) has the following account of the tarring and feathering of an Ohio man on a steamboat…
Warning to Free Negroes at Evansville, Indiana –the following handbill has been posted in Evansville, Indiana:– Notice to Free Negroes — The laws of Indiana provide that, after a certain…
THE PARKER DONATIION TO THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY At a regular meeting of the Board of Aldermen, on Monday, Sept 10, 1860, Mayor Lincoln in the chair — The Committee…
The title of Doctor of Divinity conferred upon Henry Ward Beecher by Amherst College, at the late Commencement, is rejected by Mr. Beecher, in a note addressed to the Board…
Over Eleven Hundred Free Negroes for Sale — On Thursday, in front of the Court House, eleven hundred and ninety three free negroes will be offered for sale, for a…
Base and Unnatural Proscription Frederick Douglass having been refused a passport to enable him to visit Paris, by Mr. Dallas, the American minister at London, on the ground that they…
Slavery Finally Abolished in Kansas. We stop the press to announce the joyful tidings that the bill prohibiting slavery in Kansas has just passed both branches of the Legislative Assembly,…
We are requested to give notice, by the publishers and author of a ‘higher law’, work, entitled ‘A Dog-eat-DogState of Society’. that one half of the proceeds from its sales…
A MASS MEETING will be held at Faneuil Hall, on Monday evening, Oct. 10, 1859, at half-past 7 o’clock, to further the efforts now in progress to secure the true…
THE STATUE MUST BE REMOVED “Edward Everett re-delivered his oration on Daniel Webster, in front of the State House, on Tuesday afternoon last……….Mr. Everett was introduced, said – ‘No official…
Photographic Portrait of John G. Whittier A finely executed portrait of America’s most meritorius poet, drawn from life by C.A. Barry, and photographed by Silsbee, Chase & Co., has just…