January 7, 1832 In a section of Correspondence, the Editor calls attention to “the reward so daringly offered by the Senate of Georgia for our abduction, is thus noticed by…
Category: <span>Anti-Abolition</span>
August 26, 1864 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, is a poem, from the Mobile Southern Tribune. It is titled, The Heavy Curse, and is seven verses. For flavor of it…
January 1, 1864 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, is an article from the Boston Pilot. Addressing the “dire distress” of the time, it calls upon “men who govern” to…
July 17, 1863 Here is action by the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, relative to the proposition of the Rev. Moncure D. Conway who, has proposed that abolitionists…
May 15, 1863 Under the Refuge of Oppression, from the Manchester Union, “The Abolitionists will fail. They accepted war, which might have been avoided with honor, because they thought it…
January 16, 1863 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, from the New Hampshire Patriot, this article begins: “The greatest crime ever committed by a Chief Magistrate of a free people…
July 18, 1862 In the Refuge of Oppression column, from the Dayton Empire, here are some of the words: “Down with Abolitionism! Let this be the motto of the truly…
April 4, 1862 From the New York Herald comes an item which tells of the way Phillips was greeted when he attempted “do deliver one of his revolutionary lectures in…
July 26, 1861 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, from the Bloomington (Ill) Times, is a sarcastic article about “this barbarous civil war”… “Let’s smash up things generally, and return…
April 12, 1861 In the Refuge of Oppression column, from the Savannah Republican, is a brief article in which a slave, Harrison Berry, is cited as having written why “slavery…
December 7, 1860 The meeting was to be an anniversary of the Martyrdom of John Brown, to be held at Tremont Temple. The content of the long article is captured in…
November 2, 1860 This article, from the N.Y. Journal of Commerce, appears in the Refuge of Oppression column. A few words give a sense of its point. “The native African…
August 3, 1860 Three lines: ‘The latest news from New Orleans, dated July l30th, is that two Abolitionists have been hung in Texas for distributing arms and inciting slaves to…
May 11, 1860 “A Democratic orator, addressing a meeting of his party in Philadelphia lately, exclaimed, –‘if any one dares to come into my neighborhood and preach such treason as…
January 13, 1860 The item from the Cincinnati Commercial says that thirty-six persons have arrived there, having been warned to leave Kentucky “for the crime of believing slavery to be…
September 9, 1859 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, here are extracts of a speech by Davis, before the Democratic State Convention, in Mississippi, July 1859. The speech is statement…
June 17, 1859 Recently convened in Baltimore, there is an article about resolutions passed. Comment by the editor includes: “They are troubled that so many slaves run away; and they…
April 1, 1859 From the New York Commercial Advertiser comes an account of the “brutal and disgraceful manner” in which a lady from Brooklyn was recently driven from Aiken, S.C. …
January 21, 1859 As a memorial signed by William Cooper Nell, is brought before the Legislature, asking for the vindication and protection of the rights of colored citizens. Rep. Mr.…
July 9, 1858 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, from the Richmond Whig, an article comments on “how dangerous and troublesome” the Yankee is in the state of freedom, and…
July 24, 1857 From the Charleston, S.C. Mercury, the editor includes an account of a celebration of Independence Day, in which there is considerable language about the “natal day of…
July 2, 1857 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, from the Newberry, S.C. Rising Sun, is a list of Friends and Foes of Slavery, copied from the New York Day…
May 8, 1857 A brief notice from the Boston Courier reports that more than one hundred prominent members of the New York Y.M.C.A. have withdrawn from the organization because it…
August 1, 1856 Under the Refuge of Oppression, there is an article with the above title from the Atchison (Kansas) Squatter Sovereign. “More Abolitionists Turned Back. The Steamer Sultan, having…
July 25, 1856 A letter comes from J. F.Cummings, in Kansas. He tells of his return from Ohio to Lexington, Mo., where he was recognized as an abolitionist, and subsequently…
February 22, 1856 In the Refuge of Oppression column, is an article from the Richmond Enquirer, titled The Modern Abomination of Free Schools. It claims that the “worst of all…
February 8, 1856 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, from the Richmond Examiner comes an appeal to invoke the Lynch Law. “In any other country than this – under any…
November 26, 1855 Here is notice of a pamphlet, now available, which contains the speeches made at the time of the twentieth anniversary of the Mob of “Gentlemen of Property…
November 2, 1855 Three full pages of this edition are devoted to speeches made on this occasion, by many who were present then, including Garrison, Parker, Phillips, Jackson, Wright. None…
October 26, 1855 An account of the event which on the anniversary of the ’35 event when Garrison was almost lynched, and members of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, were…
April 20, 1855 From Greensboro, Georgia, comes a letter signed “Martin”. It tells the story of a man in town who was suspected of being an Abolitionist, no name given,…
April 7, 1854 The Richmond Whig expresses anger at the proceedings of a New Haven Anti-Nebraska meeting, in which Professors have participated. It asks “if the South will longer submit…
November 18, 1853 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, comes from the Detroit Free Press an article announcing the Decline of Abolitionism. “…there exists , we presume to say, no…
September 30, 1853 The article indicates that recently a paper of the United Brethren in Christ, the Religious Telescope, has been “submitted to the flames at Grenville, Va., by the…
October 15, 1852 Under the Refuge of Oppression, there are extracts from Rev. Dr. Joel Parker, who is simply identified as an “Evangelical” Divine. “When the slave’s desired freedom has…
July 11, 1851 Under the Refuge of Oppression column, titled How They Hate Slavery, is an article stating that a proposition has been adopted by the Virginia Reform Convention, which…
October 11, 1850 From the Boston Courier : “The public have been treated to some bugbear stories upon this subject, which have afforded an excellent occasion to a certain class…
May 17, 1850 In reference to an up-coming Anti-Slavery meeting scheduled for New York, here is an extract from the Herald, taken here from the N.Y. Globe, May 7, “…we…
October 17, 1845 Under Refuge of Oppression, from the Pensacola Gazette, an unsigned article is very critical of Walker and the attempts of abolitionists in the north to characterize him…
September 6, 1844 “I do not believe slavery to be a sin, and believing it to be sanctioned by the word of God, I feel assured that at the last…
March 29, 1844 Under Refuge of Oppression, titled Folly of the Abolitionists, this item seems to be from the Yarmouth Register, and is by a correspondent from the Plymouth (Mass)…
November 24, 1843 Under Refuge of Oppression, here is an article from the Pilot, decrying the existence of slavery, but much against the radical abolitionists. “The abolitionist party are a…
April 7, 1843 Three columns which illustrate the controversy within the Unitarian Association; the issue debated is over the placement of a minister with Abolitionist views in a church…
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…
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…
January 28, 1842 The Lynn Register comments on the recent seizure and imprisonment of C. T. Torrey, an abolitionist from Mass., while attending a Slaveholders Convention, in Annapolis, MD. The…
January 7, 1842 Under Refuge for Oppression, with a title, A Northern Apologist for Slavery!. “A recreant New Englander is writing a series of letters for the Puritan in this…
March 18, 1837 Meeting in Susquehanna township, elects men as trustees of the school, and authorizes them to allow speakers of various denominations to speak in the school, “but in…
April 2, 1836 Includes a listing of resolutions passed at an Anti-Abolition meeting, Sept 18, 1835, at the Barnesville Court House, (city or town not given) So. Carolina, essentially these…
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…