John C. Calhoun
March 15, 1850 “Among the half a dozen men in Congress, the utterance of whose sentiments, in times of deep excitement, command the national attention, and exert in all sections of the country a strong...
View ArticlePresident Taylor
March 8, 1850 Here is a letter to Taylor, signed by Francis Jackson, President, and Edmund Quincy, Secretary, of the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society. It had been intended that the letter was to have been...
View ArticleLongfellow Denounced
February 22, 1850 From the Boston Transcript comes comment on the recent Anti-Slavery Convention in Faneuil Hall, during which there was a resolution passed with a censure upon Longfellow, on account...
View ArticleFormer Slave Deception
March 1, 1850 A notice of Feb 22, signed by Samuel May, Jr, appears under the title, Caution. In it May tells of William Jones, a former slave, now going from place to place collecting money on the...
View ArticleThe Smith School
February 15, 1850 Here is a letter addressed to the Editor, from Thomas Paul Smith. Here are excerpts: “We are colored men, exposed alike to prejudice and oppression; our interests are all identical –...
View ArticleThe Slave Trade
February 15, 1850 Here is a series of letters, between a free colored woman, a Mr. Harnard, Esq., of New York, and Bruin & Hill, slave dealers from Alexandria. Mrs. Nancy Cartwright, who has...
View ArticleJohn Greenleaf Whittier
January 18, 1850 An announcement that the editor has received a copy of Whittier’s Poems, published by Mussey & Co., 1850. The editor comments on his first acquaintance with Whittier’s “poetic...
View ArticleCritique of Garrison and the Liberator
January 18, 1850 From the Boston Pilot — “Everybody knows that Mr. Garrison is not a popular man in New England; no wonder is made of the fact. And yet it may be considered wonderful enough, in the...
View ArticleCongress – Recapture of Fugitive Slaves
January 18, 1850 Notice of Mr. Mason’s bill, providing ‘for the more effective execution of the third clause of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States,’ is...
View ArticleCaste Schools
January 18, 1850 Under the Refuge of Oppression column Southern Traffic in Slaves and Souls of Men! This title heads a listing of slaves to be sold, or “servants” to be hired-out, listed as they...
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