Recruiting for the 54th Regiment. William Wells Brown, Dr. Smith, and Charles Lenox Remond, all colored, have been appointed recruiting agents for this regiment. The camp was opened at Readville…
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The Virginia rebels have invented a diabolical instrument to cripple the horses of our cavalry. It is constructed of four pieces of rod iron, sharpened less than a quarter of…
Port Royal, S.C., Feb 3d The first South Carolina negro regiment arrived here yesterday from an expedition sixty miles up the St. Mary’s River., GA., to the town of Woodstock,…
Colored American Patriots We understand that Mr. William C. Nell is preparing for press a second edition (revised and enlarged) of his valuable historical work, entitled “Colored American Patriots”, in…
Farewell to Rev. J. Sella Martin. The Joy Street Church and Society tendered a public farewell on Monday evening to their pastor, Rev. J. Sella Martin, who left for England…
Garrison on the 13th Amendment LAUS DEO! HALLELUJAH ! February 3, 1865, The Liberator “It is with devout thanksgiving to God, and emotions of joy which no language can express,…
What is said of the Proclamation Abroad. The Consul-General of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, in Germany, writes to a gentleman of New York city: “The Emancipation Proclamation gives every general satisfaction. It has…
Serious Accident. Yesterday forenoon, as Rev. L. A. Grimes, Pastor of the Twelfth Baptist Church, was passing from Howard to Hanover street, he was knocked down and run over by…
A Contemptible Piece of Business The residence of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, No. 82 Columbia street, was some nights since besmeared with a black, oily substance, and the front, of…
Cotton Substitutes. Mr. Stephen M. Allen, who published a work on Fibrilin, some two years ago, has experimented on many things as substitutes for cotton. He is now working flax…
Let it be constantly kept in mind, that rebels and traitors have no constitutional rights that loyal men are bound to respect — so long as they remain in rebellion…
It is remarkable that a settlement of Quakers near Mount Vernon has remained unmolested during the entire war, though alternately included within National and Rebel lines. Their semi-weekly meetings have…
A gentleman from Harper’s Ferry states that on the top of a pillar of one the churches, which was much battered in the Antietam fight, some one had written in…
Parson Brownlow, in his address a the Michigan State Fair, in Detroit, said: –“Regarding Mr. Lincoln’s proclamation I will say, that if he means to free the slaves of Rebels…
The Richmond Papers and the Proclamation. The President’s proclamation has fallen like a fire brand in camp and Senate. The rebel Congress, in debating retaliatory propositions, indulged in much billingsgate. …
A Benevolent Object The Fugitives’ Aid Society of Boston, an association of colored ladies, called a meeting of the colored people Tuesday night at Rev. J. Sella Martin’s church, for…
THE PRESS ON THE PRESIDENT’S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION We send forth to-day the most important paper ever published in the Independent – the most extraordinary document ever proceeding from this government. …
Posted – At Last The Boston Post makes the following remarkable announcement and truthful admission: “We never impugned the logic of the Garrison set as to the Constitution; for it…
Meeting of the Loyal Governors. Governor Andrew arrived in New York yesterday morning, on his way to attend a meeting of the Governors of all the loyal States, at Altona,…
THE HUTCHINSON FAMILY, “The Tribe of Asa,” – Asa B. Hutchinson, Lizzie C. Hutchinson, Abby Hutchinson, Freddy Hutchinson, O. Dennett Hutchinson, — respectfully announce to the ladies and gentlemen of…
The guerrillas have changed their policy I Missouri. Instead of organizing into large bands, they are now dividing into small bodies, and encamping in squads of twenty-five and thirty. In…
More Rebel Poisoning A letter dated Alexandria, Va., 5th from a young soldier on the way to join the 13th Massachusetts regiment, gives the following warning to beware of rebel…
Arming Negroes The citizens of New Bedford held a war meeting on Monday afternoon, 1st inst., at which, after voting a bounty, Hon. Thomas D. Eliot proposed resolutions to the…
Says the New York Independent ! – Thus far the conservative North have been striving to conduct this war so as not to meddle with the so-called Southern rights of…
NEWS WANTED FOR EUROPE. A reader of the Independent, who has just set said for Europe, sends us a note concerning his paper, and adds: — “Forward me speedy news,…
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, writing from Washington, under the date of July 17, says: –“Rev. M. D. Conway, of Cincinnati, is here, providing for the welfare of his…
An English Estimate of Wendell Phillips — “An English Traveller” writes from Boston to the London Spectator: — “The real pillar of the abolitionist party is Wendell Phillips. Gifted with…
GO AND HEAR HIM ! Rev. Samuel Green, the colored Methodist preacher, who was sentenced in Maryland, in 1857, to ten years imprisonment for having in his possession a copy…
MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT LINCOLN Washington, Monday, July 14, 1862 The following Message from the President was delivered to Congress today: Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Herewith…
Names of the Recent Battles The following are the names which it seems have been assigned to the recent battles in front of Richmond: Thursday, June 26 – Battle of…
OUT OF JAIL The black man who was imprisoned for reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I am asked to make an appeal for a poor man – a criminal, just…
On Friday afternoon, May 30, a meeting was held in Studio Building, Boston, for conference in regard to a new periodical to be devoted to the interests of Woman. While…
CHANGES The tone of the press concerning slavery is undergoing a marked change. The truths concerning it which the slaveholders themselves have forced upon our attention, are fast bringing forth…
FREEDOM OF THE CAPITAL At a meeting of the Philadelphia Female Anti- Slavery Society, held May 8th, 1862, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That we hail the abolition…
The Right Way, the Safe Way, by Mrs. L. Maria Child. Perhaps no other work is in all respects so well adapted to convince and satisfy the honest inquirer, dispel…
The Boston Courier is thrown into convulsions by the action of the U.S. House of Representatives in directing the Declaration of Independence to be read in conjunction with Washington’s Farewell…
CRISPUS ATTUCKS CELEBRATION The Ninety-Second Anniversary of the Martyrdom of the colored American, Crispus Attucks, “the day which history selects as the dawn of the American Revolution,” will be commemorated…
The Rev. J. Sella Martin, of this city, was well received in England, where he was engaged in upholding the Union cause. He had done more for that cause in…
Whittier’s “Song of the Negro Boatmen” strikes us as possessing more of the elements of poetry, pathos, and music of rhythm in its verses than almost any song which we…
What the English think of our War Policy, — Letters have been received by Senators, brought by the last English mail, from Messrs. Bright, Richard, Cobden, the Duke of Argyle, …
From MR. GARRISON’S SPEECH AT NEW YORK The slaveholders of the South are not only opposed to Northern Abolitionists, but to Northern ideas and Northern institutions. ….Listen to the language…
Mr. Greeley’s Lecture. Horace Greeley delivered a lecture last week in Washington, at the Smithsonian Institution, his subject being “The Nation”. He said the misfortunes of our country had been…
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION Boston, December 12th, 1861 To Frederick U. Tracy, Treasurer, and the Assessors and other Authorities of the city of Boston, and the citizens generally, and the Legislature…
OUR THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME We commence the Thirty-Second Volume of the Liberator, offering the heartfelt congratulations of the season to all our readers, and trusting that the present may prove THE…
The classical Charles (Sumner) has surely gone nigger-mad. He can’t even visit the grave of a friend without lugging a nigger along with him — Providence Post The chaste and…
Emancipation League. A society has just been established in this city under this title, the object of which is declared to be in the Constitution: “to urge upon the people…
The Philadelphia Enquirer publishes an extract of a letter purporting to be dated Charleston, 23d ult., from a lady, which states that not general slave insurrection had yet taken place,…
Death Of Francis Jackson, Esq. Boston has lost one of its most useful and esteemed citizens in the death of Francis Jackson, Esq., which took place at his residence in…
The Columbus (Ohio) Fact, a leading Breckinridge journal, thus boldly declares its opinion touching slavery and the war: — “This Government cannot conquer the rebels with the same army with…
“THIS IS NOT A WAR AGAINST SLAVERY “ Well, so be it; but, it is also not a war against the horses, the cotton, the money, the ships, the guns…