July 8, 1842 The Washington correspondent of the N.Y. American, a former Colonization agent, is quoted here at length, telling of his disillusionment and change on mind. Signed simply, R.M.T.H
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July 15, 1842 Here is an “Interesting Letter from England”, signed only W.H.Ashurst, from Musell Hill, Hornsey, April 30, 1842 The letter makes a number of points: “We are struggling…
July 22, 1842 Here is a hymn, written by Garrison, A Hymn for the First of August, West India Emancipation: Here is only the first verse: “Lo! The bondage of…
July 22, 1842 A brief note: “We understand that two or more of the mills at Lowell have been stopped, and that between two and three thousand factory girls are…
July 29, 1842 From the Liberty Standard, here is a statement against Clay’s candidacy for President, recently endorsed by the Whig Convention of Maine. Signed by A. Willey, it gives…
August 26, 1842 Here is an essay on the means of removing prejudice against color, by S. Linstant, of Paris. Garrison introduces it by citing the qualifications of its author,…
August 26, 1842 From the Nantucket Inquirer, a record of several outbreaks against people assembled in an Anti-Slavery Convention. These include the use of insulting and abusive language, the throwing…
September’s 2, 1842 From an “Observer”, Canandaigua Lake, August, 1842 . Very critical review of Kelley’s attacks on the Liberty Party. “Abby’s course may do much harm to the cause…
September 9, 1842 Here Garrison responds to the editor of the Zion’s Herald. Garrison has been criticized for “infidelity” as he maintains that all days are equally sacred. Garrison strongly…
September 16, 1842 An item from the Philadelphia Ledger, titled, Can’t it be Corrected? “It is a very great injury to the black population of the city, that so many…
September 16, 1842 Here is a record of an Essex County Conference, August 18, held in Andover. “Reports were listened to from societies in Boston, Cambridge, Danvers, Andover, Reading, Haverhill,…
September 23, 1842 Constituents of Adams, in the twelfth district, meet in Braintree, and welcome Adams,after completion of the longest Congressional system known to him, for the ten years he…
September 30, 1842 From the Hartford Charter Oak, there is an article which includes a recounting of a discussion between “A Northern Man and a Southern Trader” at the close…
September 30, 1842 Here is a long report of a discussion at a recent meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The issue regards the policy of…
September 30, 1842 “The dome of the State House of Boston was visited in 1841 by 43,478 persons. During the present year, since March, by 24,002.”
September 30, 1842 “The cotton crop of Texas is estimated, for the present year, at about eighty thousand bales.”
October 7, 1842 An item from New Bedford, Sept 26, signed by Henry Hurd, describes an incident of discrimination against Mr. Richard Johnson and daughter, at “the depot of the…
October 7, 1842 Death of the “distinquished writer, philanthropist, and divine, in Bennington, Vermont, on Sunday afternoon, after a short illness.”
October 14, 1842 Here is an item from the Emancipator, titled, Daniel Webster and the ‘Great Compromiser’. “….Daniel Webster went down to Alexandria and Richmond, and bowed his massive, Herculean…
October 14, 1842 An item from the Albany Tocsin “…. Tell the slaveholders that we passed twenty-six prime slaves to the land of freedom last week, and several more this…
October 21, 1842 “The Exciting Subject — A letter from the editor of the Emancipator, written at Bangor, Maine., tells of the following incident: The Rev. Dr. Hawes, of Hartford,…
October 28, 1842 One more sign of hope, one more church takes an ant-slavery position. Notice of a regular church meeting, in Millbury (probably Mass), where the Baptist Church enacts…
October 28, 1842 Latimer, a fugitive slave from Norfolk, Va., was pursued by his owner, James Gray, who had him arrested on a charge of larceny. A writ of habeas…
November 4, 1842 Here are long accounts of the Faneuil Hall meeting, speeches made, of strong controversy, discussion on all sides, in which the Latimer case is lifted in the…
November 4, 1842 From Boston Daily Bee, is an account of the Faneuil Hall meeting. It includes a statement about a “darkey” who was not listened to, and then Phillips…
November 11, 1842 A letter from Adams, explains why he cannot become defender of Latimer, but offers his counsel to any who defend him.
November 11, 1842 Here is an account of the Faneuil Hall meeting, in which it becomes clear that the “darkey” who had not been “listened to” was Lenox Remond.
November 11, 1842 From the New England (Catholic) Reporter, an article is titled, “The Liberator, alias, the Disorganizer” It names the Liberator “that mighty advocate for the slave, whose puissant…
November 18, 1842 Here is a letter from Douglass, telling of a gathering in New Bedford, and commenting on the Latimer case.
December 2, 1842 A long article commenting on the legal case surrounding Latimer.
December 9. 1842 Here are words from James Gray, proclaimed owner of Latimer, also accounts of meetings in Abington and Dedham, resolving for passage of state personal liberty laws.
December 23, 1842 Record of another meeting in Waltham, urging action against fugitive slave law.
January 6, 1843 In the first issue of the year there is an article of three columns, signed only by the initials E. Q., (probably Edmund Quincy) strongly deprecating the…
January 6, 1843 “Has every town done its utmost?……It is an imperative duty on the part of all persons, who would petition for any cause on their own behalf, to…
January 13, 1843 Here is an account of “A Church Mob, with the Minister at the Head of It”, which disturbed an abolitionist lecture in a Congregational Church in Phipsburg, Maine.…
January 13, 1843 A call for more petitions, signed by H.I. Bowditch, indicates that at least twenty thousand names, exclusive of Suffolk County, have been secured on petitions, and assurance…
January 20, 1843 An announcement of the Latimer Committee that they now have forty eight thousand names on petitions, and the goal is to have one hundred thousand “sons and…
January 27, 1843 An item from the Lexington Baptist Pioneer, is titled, “Spirit of Texas”. It is from a clergyman who “represents Texas”, who writes to the editor of the Commercial…
January 27, 1843 An account of the arrest and attempted jailing of Alcott for failure to pay a tax. It is addressed to the Editor of the Liberator. The writer,…
February 3, 1843 Several columns of “Correspondence between the Authorities of Virginia and the Executive of Massachusetts, relative to the Latimer Case.” There is also an account of a “Latimer…
February 3, 1843 Resolutions in support of petitions in the Latimer case, and a resolution for the liberation of three men, including George Thompson, jailed in Missouri for helping a slave…
February 3, 1843 62,791 people have signed petition to the state legislature, and 48,000 to the US Congress. John Quincy Adams was selected to take charge of the petitions to Congress.
February 10, 1843 There is an account of the meeting of a large meeting of colored citizens at the Belknap-street church, Feb 1st. The meeting, among other actions, affirms support…
February 17, 1843 Celebrating and congratulating themselves on the collection of the petitions, a note at the end of this report says: “The petition was carried on the shoulders of…
February 17, 1843 An ad for a compound which will prevent baldness, scurvy, and dandruff, and will also curl the hair.
February 24, 1843 Under Refuge of Oppression, there is an article from the Boston Pilot, titled, The Mania of Abolition. Referring to recent abolitionist speeches made at Faneuil Hall, the…
March 3, 1843 Under the Refuge of Oppression, is an item from the Maine Cultivator, signed by “Xenos”. It evokes a “middle course” for thought and action. “If the Garrison…
March 3, 1843 A very long report, taking a large portion of the paper, concludes with an act to submit to the legislature an Act “Further to Protect Personal Liberty”. …
March 10, 1843 “….The whole tone of the decision is marked by the assumption that the preservation of the blessings of slavery, and not of liberty, to themselves and their…
March 17, 1843 “The Massachusetts petition consists of a roll of paper two feet wide, two feet in diameter,, and more than half a mile long, to which are attached…