Here is a long two-column listing of petitions presented, with the names of lead petitioners, indicating the number of signers, and towns from which they come. Petitions cover a range…
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Here us a letter from Wm. B. Stone, West Brookfield, claiming that ” A slaveholder from the District of Columbia is received to the full enjoyment of all of the…
Here are two, narrow columns of quotes from the Mass Abolition Society, designed to portray inconsistency. The title over the column is, BEAUTIFUL CONSISTENCY !! “On the Art of Blowing…
Between May 8 and May 15, 1840 there is a special four page edition of the Liberator, devoted to the proceedings of the sixth annual meeting of the Boston Female…
From the Emancipator, is a speech by “A colored young man , and a member of the Onedia Institute, at the late anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society”. The speech…
Under the column Refuge of Oppression, here is a strongly sarcastic view of disagreements emerging among abolitionists. It is from the Journal of Commerce, but the place of origin is…
Appearing under Refuge of Oppression are minutes of a Connecticut Anti-Slavery Society, from the New Haven Record. Abby Kelley appears at the meeting, and her presence creates controversy. She is…
Appearing under Refuge of Oppression is a series of items from The Journal of Commerce. It is apparently a kind of “double-sarcasm”, in which the items come from a “Boboliton …
Under Refuge of Oppression is an excerpt from a speech by Webster, on June 11th, in Alexandria, D.C. The article claims that Webster has “shamelessly avowed his own subserviency ,…
A brief item from the Journal of Temperance Union, tells of efforts to bring Irish people into temperance organizations. It speaks of groups in Philadelphia, many other places, and includes…
Writing from London, July 3, Garrison sends a copy of a Protest against the exclusion of women from the London convention. He indicates that the Protest was read at the…
These are speeches made at the British Foreign A. S. Society, June 24, at Exeter Hall
Here is a brief item which speaks of Garrison’s disdain for political action by ministers: “Ministers of Christ Becoming Political Demagogues.” It mentions an “eloquent” Methodist preacher, in Kentucky, who…
Account of an August 3rd gathering at the Belknap Street Church. “Owing to the insufficiency of the building to accommodate all who would have gladly been present, but few, save…
A letter appears from Garrison, upon his return from London: “On the London Convention I shall speak without reserve in future numbers of The Liberator. It was anything but a…
Here Mott, from London, June 17 requests O’Connell’s views on the question of women in the Convention. O’Connell’s response includes that at first he was against the inclusion of women…
Here is a brief article which notes that women have been induced to “get up” a fair for the completion of the Monument. “We lament to see them engaged in…
A note from Pease, Liverpool, England, to William Bassett of Lynn, noted here because the Garrison’s named one child for Elizabeth. The note “is in all respects worthy of the…
From the American Wesleyan Observer, signed by Orange Scott. ‘ Till within the last two years we have had unlimited confidence in Mr. Garrison. We have defended him in private…
Here Garrison includes a note from Lundy , May 18, 1838, in which Lundy describes that his papers, books, everything is gone. “They have not yet got my conscience —…
After reflecting on his life and the abolition cause, Garrison appeals for people to exert themselves on behalf of the paper, if they have found it helpful, and then ends…
Henry Grew, from Philadelphia, sends a long explanation of why he wants the editor to “erase my name from your list of subscribers”.
Under the Refuge of Oppression column, there is a note from the Harrisburg Keystone, with a warning about a “whole-hog abolitionist and amalgamationist, named Flowers,” who is lecturing “farmers of…
Notice of action by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, in London, which takes a strong action to “enter a solemn protest against the recognition of the independence of Texas…
An article signed by James Birney, E. Wright, Jr. and Henry B. Stanton, with a statement opposing the creation of a third political party. It deprecates “the formation of a…
In a long letter to Channing, here Smith says, “…. there are but two courses for abolitionists in the matter of voting. One of these is to refrain from the…
Here is a notice, written by Benjamin Taylor, of a colored boy, 14, who left the shop where he worked, in Boston, on Monday morning, and has not been heard…
Notice of the party meeting, deferred until February, hoping for the largest “anti-slavery meeting ever assembled in Boston.
From the Opelousas, La., Gazette, is the story of three slaves who were executed for the murder of John Moore, their overseer. It seems that the overseer had found whiskey…
Under Refuge of Oppression there is an article from the Connecticut Observer, under the title, Support for Ministers of the Gospel. The writer contends that even though a Minister does…
A letter from Gerrit Smith to William Goodell, recounts some of the divisions among abolitionists, and ends with a plea for unity. “… what say you to a proposition for…
With a title, Rebuke of the Eastern Railroad Company, for their treatment of Colored Passengers, there is a report here of a debate in the House, relative to a bill…
Here is an odd item, from the Herald of Freedom. It says that the Massachusetts Abolitionist has “turned into the ‘Free American’. This sounds a little more like it. The…
A letter from George Bradburn, of Nantucket. He is the legislator who wanted to rebuke the Eastern Railroad Company. Now he tells of similar discriminatory practice on the Boston and…
Under Refuge of Oppression, here is an item The Matter Understood, from the Louisville Adv., quoting the Arkansas Gazette in response to “abolition avowals” of the Louisville Journal. There is…
Here is an item claiming that there are now sixty-one students who are abolitionists. They are excluding slaveholders from communion, refusing donations from them for missionary purposes.
Much praise given to her, and notes that she has followed to the grave one to whom she had pledged her love, and to whom she expected to be wed.
Here is announcement of a Third Party Convention to be held in New York…”we are sorry to state the fact. In order to refresh the memories of those who may…
Under Refuge of Oppression from the New York Herald. Referring to the American Anti-Slavery Society, the comment is: “It was one of the most amusing, lamentable, laughable, ridiculous, disgusting, and jumbled affairs that…
“Any person having a copy of the above work to dispose of, will incur a favor by calling at 25 Cornhill.”
Here is a brief report of a Meeting of Colored Citizens, in the third Christian Church, New Bedford, addressed by Garnet, “who acquitted himself in an eloquent, forcible, and argumentative…
A three-line note under the title, Puzzled: “The New York Journal of Commerce says, ‘A Colonization Convention opened its sittings in Baltimore on Thursday last. What is the precise object…
Here under the title, Favorable Prospects is a note that the London Anti-Slavery Reporter. I t says that a movement in favor of abolition has been made in Sweden. It…
A note from the Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer tells of three men, two of whom were police officers, who arrested a female fugitive slave owned in Maryland. They found her in…
An item from the Lynn Record is titled, ‘Northern Slavery’, and in it there is a rebuke of the argument which claims that poor laborers of the North are worse…
Here is the story of Henry Ludlam, of Richmond, VA., who came to Boston, with a hired slave, Lucy Faggin, on contract with her owner for one year. They were…
From the Boston Post comes the story that the bark, Kazan, arrived from Mobile, with a slave who had stowed away on board without the knowledge of the crew. The…
Here is an article, with the stories of accidents caused by explosives and the premature discharge of a cannon, in a variety of places, including Ware, MA., Westville, Pawtucket, RI…
Here, from the London Christian Pioneer, is the story of Mott’s appearance at the annual meeting of the Glasgow Emancipation Society. She is characterized with these words:”…. The eloquent, pure-minded,…
A letter to Garrison, from Noah Jackman, a minister simply identified as from Newbury, Belleville. It tells of his decision to “come out and be separate, — to hold no…