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…
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 The Board of Directors of the Fourth Ave Line of City Railroad cars have rescinded their order excluding colored persons from the…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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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. …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Colored Pupils in the Boston Schools. At the late examination, Elizabeth Norton Smith of the Wells School received a Franklin Medal, and Catherine E. Snowden of the Bowdoin School a…
Chivalarous Sentiment in Delicate Expression. The New York Evening Post, has drawn down upon itself the indignation of a Copperhead screamer, who is probably a southern gentleman doing business in…
The Richmond Examiner predicts the overthrow of Mr. Lincoln. It says: “Whatever may turn out to be the meaning of the fact, the fact itself begins to shine out clear…
Raising the Price of Newspapers The price of the Boston daily newspapers has been raised from three to five cents per copy, and to yearly subscribers a corresponding increase. This…
Shocking Accident on the South Shore Railroad Last evening as the six o’clock evening train from Boston to Cohasset was going with considerable speed between West Hingham and Hingham, the…
What the Rebels Expect from the Copperheads. The editor of the British American, of Kingston, C.W., who was recently at Halifax, reports a conversation which he had there with the…
NOTICE — The Colored Ladies’ Sanitary Commission of Boston will hold a Fair in Mercantile Hall, Summer street, commencing at 3 o’clock on Tuesday, Oct. 18, and continuing until the…
The Freed Slaves — The Philadelphia North American submits a carefully prepared estimate of the number of slaves thus far set free by the administration, or by the events of…
Paid Off The Massachusetts 54th regiment, of colored troops, has been paid off by the government in full to Aug. 31. The soldiers have sent back to their families and…
On Wednesday night one or two rowdies attacked the Rev. Highland Garnet in front of the St. Charles Hotel, where he is stopping. He was struck and knocked down, and…
Death of Chief Justice Taney The intelligence of the decease of the historically infamous author of the Dred Scott Decision, which took place at Washington on the 12th inst., after…
The McClellan papers generally follow the advice of the Richmond Enquirer, and call their opponents Abolitionists. The word does not frighten any one now. As tweedle-dum is to tweedle-dee, so…
Mrs. Frances Ellen Harper This eminent anti-slavery lecturer, of long standing, delivered one of her able and eloquent addresses on “The Mission of the War”, Sunday evening, Oct. 23, 1864. …
Rebel Governors in Council — The Richmond papers of the 24th contain the proceedings of the rebel Governors of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. They adopted resolutions…
The Copperhead press are rejoicing over Millard Filmore’s endorsement of Gen. McClellan. Filmore justifies revolution in the South, in case a President were elected displeasing to the Southern people. The…
St. Albans, Vermont, has been invaded by rebel refugees, from Canada – they robbed three banks of $150,000, stole horses and property of other kinds, killed one man, and wounded…
– Rebel Governors in Council (Liberator, Nov 4, 1864, pg 3) — The Richmond papers of the 24th contain the proceedings of the rebel Governors of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,…
September 23, 1864 —- Letter from Frederick Douglass Douglass writes about a letter of his recently sent to an English correspondent, and published subsequently in the Liberator. Douglass comments on…
Fillmore endorsement justifies attitude of South (Liberator, Nov 4, 1864, pg 3) The Copperhead press are rejoicing over Millard Fillmore’s endorsement of Gen. McClellan. Fillmore justifes revolution…
The Louisville Journal Gives Up Slavery. In a leading editorial in reply to a correspondent who urges emancipation as the only hope and salvation of Kentucky, it frankly admits that…