Category: <span>-William Lloyd Garrison’s Best Lines & Headlines</span>

It is hardly too much to say, that the hearty and earnest endorsement of President Lincoln’s nomination by Wm. Lloyd Garrison, of the Boston Liberator, the Anti-Slavery Standard, the Tribune,…

The President Cheered. During President Lincoln’s visit to Gen. Grant’s army:   “The noticeable feature of the ride was the passing of a brigade of negro troops.  The troops were lounging…

Senator Sumner has had an interview with the Secretary of War and the Attorney General on the matter of the immediate payment of Massachusetts colored regiments, which it had been…

Crowd the House ! – George Thompson, Esq., will deliver an Address on behalf of the Colored Soldiers Aid Society, in the 12th Baptist Church, Southac street, (Rev. Grime’s) on…

On Wednesday, the 25th of May, a company of colored soldiers, just arrived in Washington, was passing from the depot through North Capital Street towards the Capital, and in full…

The Providence Press says a church in Newport, taking high ground in favor of the equality of the colored race with whites, has still on the books of its corporation,…

The Tables Turned   The widow of the late Ex-President John Tyler has written to President Lincoln complaining that Gen. Wild has arrested a slave owner who had been flogging his…

S. Senate, May 27 The joint resolution to amend the charter of the City of Washington was taken up, and the amendment allowing persons to be registered as voters who…

Death of Nathaniel Hawthorne   Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, died at Plymouth, New Hampshire, May 19th.  He was stopping at Plymouth in the course of a journey for the benefit of…

The New States     Enabling acts have passed the House of Representatives for the admission of Nebraska, Colorado, and Nevada into the Union.    For the first time in the history of…

Atlantic Monthly for May.  “Life in the Sea Islands” is a sketch from South Carolina, by a young lady of African blood, well known to many of our readers.  There…

Release of Rev. Calvin Fairbank   After twelve years’ incarceration (the sentence was fifteen years) in the Kentucky penitentiary, on the charge of having aided in the escape of some fugitive…

Contents of a Secesh Journal.     Nigger, nigger, more nigger, big nigger, little nigger, abolition, John Brown, Stonewall Jackson’s grave, nigger, black nigger, yaller nigger; C-o-n-s-t-i-t-u-t-i-o-n; peace on any terms; emancipation,…

The last rebel device is said by the New South to have been practiced near Jacksonville.  A  dead negro was found floating  in the water, anchored out with a torpedo. …

WHO ARE ABOLITIONISTS? The St. Paul Press, for political effect, or some other foolish purpose, the editor of that paper says:  — “The Republican party is, in fact, the only…

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,…

A correspondent calls attention to the fact that a great many boarding-houses in this city are kept by rank secessionists.   This is true.  There are hundreds of such houses, most…

Sufferings of Contrabands.  A Vicksburg (Miss.) correspondent of the Tribune, under date of March 4, writes:    Some 2000 slaves of all ages and colors reached here yesterday.  It was one…

Cruelty to a Slave In Richmond.  It will be seen by the following that slavery is not dead yet, though some of the victims are almost:……..During the session of the…

Died,in Brighton, March 5, Mr. John Telemachus Hilton, aged 62 Born in Pennsylvania, he, when a young man, came to the Eastern States, and became a protégé of the Reverend…

THE FUGITIVE SLAVE  LAW   Washington,  Feb 29.Senator Sumner’s report made, to-day, from the Select Committee on Freedmen, discusses the relation between slavery and the fugitive slave acts, which it says…

Colored People Admitted to the Fourth Avenue Cars.  The Board of Directors of the Fourth Ave Line of City Railroad cars have rescinded their order excluding colored persons from the…

The House of Representatives on the Constitutional Abolition of Slavery.   On Monday, 15th, a resolution was adopted in the House of Representatives,  by a majority of sixteen  — declaring that…

The Gloucester Fire.   The fire at Gloucester, on Thursday of last week, proves to have been even more disastrous than at first supposed. While the storm of wind was howling…

THE PROBLEM SOLVED  !   An intensely interesting work, arguing the inevitable and the only just solution of the relations of the White and Negro races of this continent.  It be…

Our colored soldiers of the 54th and 55th will not accept the additional pay offered them by Massachusetts.  They say, and they say correctly, that they are soldiers of the…

A GENERAL  EMANCIPATIION ACT  — Wm. Wells Brown will address the people on the above subject, as follow:   Northfield, Mass.  Friday, Dec. 11  — Bernardston, Mass.  Saturday,Dec. 12 —  Leyden,…

HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN  60 Pleasant Street. The experiment of a Special Hospital for Lying-In Patients and the Diseases of Women has now been under trial in Boston, for…

The Anglo-African says that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has presented the Contraband Relief Association of Washington the generous contribution of two hundred dollars for the relief of the suffering freedmen in…

Advices from Cuba state that there is serious alarm on many plantations on the Island, lest the slaves should break out in open insurrection, their conduct in many places being…

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered his lecture on America, at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, on the 16th inst.  He had a densely crowded audience, and on the whole was enthusiastically…

At present, St. Louis is inundated with fugitive negroes from the South, not less than 8,000, I am informed, being now in the city.  Many of them are unemployed, and…

ONE MILLION SIGNATURES !  Circulate the Petition ! The Loyal Women of the Republic, through their National Association, resolved in May last to attempt to procure a MILLION signatures of…

THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY    “Reorganized, reconstructed, and augmented”  by the union of the “House of John” and “Tribe of Asa” – will continue their series of spirit-stirring Concerts in the Cause…

Gov. Andrew, of Massachusetts, while on his way to Fryeburg, and near Conway, N. H., had an opportunity of taking the lead in an extemporized fire department.  A correspondent of…

Anti-Slavery Newspapers in the South.    Anti-slavery newspapers are now published in Middle Tennessee, South Carolina, and Louisiana.  Another is to be immediately started in Mississippi.   Mr. Montgomery, who, for months…

A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE COL. SHAW       Beaufort,  S.C., July 27, 1863 To the colored soldiers and freedmen in this Department:     It is fitting that you should pay a last…

Discovery of A Lot of Secreted Bullets.     This morning, a 7 o’clock, a colored man saw a white man lurking around City Wharf, North Charles street, in a suspicious manner,…

Buffalo, N.Y.,  July 6    There was a difficulty between the Irish stevedores and negroes this afternoon, in consequence of the former trying to prevent the negroes from unloading the propellers. …

Independence Day in Boston.    The eighty-seven anniversary of American Independence  was celebrated in this city, on Saturday last, by the ringing of bells, the firing of national salutes, balloon ascensions,…

Flag Presentation.   Two sets of colors will be presented to the 55th (colored) Regiment on Saturday afternoon, at 3 o’clock.   Parties will be in season by taking the 2:30 train…

THE “PECULIAR INSTITUTION” ILLUSTRATED       We have a photographic likeness of a Louisiana slave’s back, taken five or six months after a terrible scourging, and exhibiting from the shoulders to the…

Anti-slavery Sentiment in Nashville.     The Nashville Union says the growth of the Union Club in that city has been greatly increased since the adoption of the celebrated anti-slavery declaration. Previous…

A RETURNED FUGITIVE SLAVE AGAIN FREE.   Thomas Sims, who was returned from Boston in 1851 to his master in Georgia, under the Fugitive Slave Law, arrived in Boston on Thursday…

Ladies seeking a flag  for the 54th We are informed that a circle of young ladies are exerting themselves to procure a suitable flag for the Massachusetts  54th (colored) regiment.…

CALL FOR A MEETING OF THE LOYAL WOMEN OF THE NATION In this crisis of our Country’s destiny, it is the duty of every citizen to consider the peculiar blessings…

COLORED REFUGEES IN OUR CAMPS    The following letter is from a very worthy, intelligent woman, who was herself a slave during twenty-five years, and who is now manifesting  sympathy with…

Feeling Toward Negro troops     I am happy to say that the feeling toward these colored regiments, throughout the army, is undergoing the most rapid and extraordinary changes.  Soldiers – that…