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Showing posts with label Abolition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abolition. Show all posts
Monday, April 29, 2024

Daniel S. Dickenson

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In a recent issue of the Washington Union , an article appeared, in which, to the astonishment of the country, an attempt was made to dispar...

Senator Daniel S. Dickinson to Henry Orr, September 13, 1853

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BINGHAMTON, N. Y., September 13, 1853. MY DEAR SIR—I have this moment received your favor of the 10th, calling my attention to a communica...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Saturday, May 7, 1864

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At 1 o'clock last night we were aroused by guards shouting "Get out o'har, you'uns, in five minutes to take ca's for Ri...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Congressman Horace Mann, September 8, 1850

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SEPT. 8, 1850. Texas has not a particle of rightful claim to all the north-western region this bill contends for; but she has passed a law...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Senator David R. Atchison* to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, March 4, 1855

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PLATTE CITY, [Mo.], March 4, 1855. DEAR HUNTER: The Elections in Kansas came off on the 30th ult, the pro slavery ticket prevailed every w...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

Senator Robert M. T. Hunter to Richard Rowzee, August 9, 1852

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WASHINGTON, [D. C.], August 9th, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: I regret to learn from your letter that there are democrats in our county who hestitat...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Charles Sumner: Our Immediate Antislavery Duties, November 6, 1850

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OUR IMMEDIATE ANTISLAVERY DUTIES. SPEECH AT A FREE-SOIL MEETING AT FANEUIL HALL, NOVEMBER 6, 1850. MR. CHAIRMAN, AND YOU, MY FELLOW-CITIZE...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

Abraham Lincoln’s 4th Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1864

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Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Again the blessings of health and abundant harvests claim our pro-roundest gra...