General Samuel Houston defends Slavery
March 2, 1855 Here is the text of a speech by Senator Houston, at Tremont Temple, in which he defends slavery. “….It is necessity that produces slavery, it is convenience, it is profit that creates...
View ArticleLetter from William Craft
February 23, 1855 Craft writes to Garrison, from London. “I was pleased to see that it required military force to return poor Burns into slavery. I think the law would soon become a dead letter, if...
View ArticleResignation of a U.S. Commissioner
February 23, 1855 A notice that George W. Meeker, Esq., has resigned his office as U. S. Commissioner, in Chicago, “owing to repugnance to acting under the Fugitive Slave Law” The post Resignation of a...
View ArticleDouglass in Philadelphia
February 9, 1855 A letter to Garrison, comes from “R.T.”, in Philadelphia. It comments on the oratorical power of Douglass, and cites parts of the speech in which Douglass says that some Abolitionists...
View ArticleBeecher lecture
February 9, 1855 Excerpts from Henry Ward Beecher’s lecture at Broadway Tabernacle (N.Y.) “The struggle between the North and the South is not one of sections, and of parties, but of Principles — of...
View ArticleAnother Slave Case in Boston
January 19, 1855 From the Boston Evening Transcript, the story of Jackson, an alleged fugitive, who had been in the city for eight weeks. A Capt Fox, pursues Jackson. Jackson was “taken in charge of,...
View ArticleNew England Non-Resistance Society
January 19, 1855 Notice of a meeting of the Society to be held in Worcester. Signed by Adin Ballou, here is an invitation to the meeting. It indicates that Garrison, the two Fosters, and Henry C....
View ArticleAnthony Burns
January 5, 1855 A Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, tells of the purchase of Burns by McDaniels, of North Carolina, and then appeals, “Anthony having many friends in Boston, cannot...
View ArticleSlave Ships in New York Harbor
January 5, 1855 An article from the N. Y. Evangelist tells of a ship, recently in the harbor, which was discovered to be “taking in boards and materials suited for laying a slave deck…a libel was filed...
View Article1855 New Year’s Wishes
January 5, 1855 “We enter upon our new volume with undiminished zeal, courage and hope – warmly proferring toall our friends and patrons the loving salutations and wishes of the New Year, thanking...
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