Anti-Slavery Societies We find appended to the Fourth Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society, a list of all the Anti-Slavery Societies in the United States, as far as they…
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ALL ENGLAND IN A FLAME ! By late arrivals from England, we have received files of London papers, by which we learn that the whole kingdom is gloriously agitated for…
From the Dublin Herald FORMATION OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY: For the abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery throughout the World. On Wednesday the 17th inst., the…
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society We have received the following interesting Circular from England. Our friends across the Atlantic may rely upon it, that the abolitionists of North America will…
Startling Facts ! The last three years’ War with England, the most powerful nation in the world, cost the United States about $90,000,000. The three years’ War in Florida, with…
Judge Simmons, of Boston, has decided that the Eastern Rail-Road Company have a perfect right to run a ‘Jim Crow’ car, and to assort their passengers and determine which of…
David Ruggles In the midst of the most active and successful efforts to assist the poor hunted runaways from southern plantations in their flight to Canada, this brave, bold, generous…
ALL ENGLAND IN A FLAME ! By late arrivals from England, we have received files of London papers, by which we learn that the whole kingdom is gloriously agitated for…
Deacon Timothy Gilbert, one of our best known and most useful citizens, died this morning after a long illness, at the age of 68 years and six months. He was…
Petitions for Extension of the Elective Franchise to Women. Several petitions on this subject were presented last week to the House of Representatives, by Mr. Greene, of Milton, and on…
AN APPEAL FROM SCOTLAND The enormity of a religious support of American Slavery is such that Christians of the Old World are making their appeals to the church of this…
Death of Amos Lawrence – We regret to be called on to announce the death of one of our most valued and respected citizens, Amos Lawrence, Esq. This event took…
Woman’s Convention. The Woman’s Temperance Convention in New York City, on the 7th, was fully attended and admirably conducted. A fine spirit pervaded the body itself, and all who heard…
William J. Watkins, recently of this city, has become assistant editor of the Frederick Douglass’s Paper. He makes his first editorial appearance in the last number. Mr. W. is a…
The Twelfth Baptist Church of this city, of which Rev. L. A. Grimes is Pastor, , have, with the liberal aid of many of our citizens in this city and…
Mr.Garrison. The friends of Reform Progress, of Salem and vicinity, were well entertained on Sunday last, in hearing the remarks of Mr. Garrison, and those of some other good speakers. …
RECEPTION MEETING A public meeting of the friends of emancipation will be held in, the Meionaon,(Tremont Temple), This Friday evening , Oct 13, a 7 o’clock, to welcome WILLIAM WELLS…
Illness of Harriet Martineau The numerous friends and admirers of Miss Martineau will read the following extract of a letter from Parker Pillsbury, dated Feb. 15, with feelings of deepest…
Reception of Anthony Burns A large audience gathered at the Tremont Temple on Wednesday evening last, to welcome Anthony Burns back to Boston, a free man. The Chair was occupied…
NEW ENGLAND Female Medical College — The Ninth Annual Term will commence on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1856. and continue four months. Fee, $5 for each of the six branches. Forty…
Senator Sumner Mr. Sumner left Boston last evening, for Washington, by way of Fall River. Though much improved in health, he is still regarded by his physicians as an invalid. …
A gentleman, puffing his cigar, entered a stage-coach, in which a number of ladies were seated. He bowed with much self-complacency, and said, ‘I hope, ladies, my smoking is not…
On the Necessity of Removing or Reducing to Slavery the Free Negroes of the Commonwealth. – If we have succeeded in making ourselves intelligible, it will be seen from our…
Mrs. Mott’s Lecture A very large audience assembled on Thursday evening, at the Odd Fellows’ Hall, and gave most respectful and interested attention to an admirable discourse from Mrs. Lucretia…
Indian Slaves — We are informed by a gentleman from Nebraska, that some Indians are now held in slavery by a gentleman of that place. The holder of them is…
Wendell Phillips The Pittsburg Gazette says: ‘Mr. Phillips went from here to deliver a lecture in Lancaster, on Friday night. From thence he goes to New York to fulfill a…
It is the part of the bee to get honey, if possible, even from poisonous flowers. We therefore joyfully report to our readers the existence of an appeal to humanity…
Mortality of Boston for 1858 — The exact number of deaths in Boston for the year 1858 was 3840, a decrease of 128 from the year 1857. A considerable number…
Negroes Excluded From The Public Lands. The Pittsburg Gazette says that about a month ago a company of colored people in that city desired to form a party to emigrate…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …