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Showing posts with label Fugitive Slave Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fugitive Slave Law. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Congressman Horace Mann, September 21, 1850

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The Fugitive-slave Bill is very much altered from what it was when originally offered. That bill made all postmasters in the United States j...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Senator Charles Sumner to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, May 8, 1851

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I cannot repress my delight in what I hear of Emerson's utterance at Concord. For an hour and a half he laid bare our evils and their au...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Congressman Horace Mann, September 13, 1850

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SEPT. 13, 1850. I wrote you word yesterday what an infernal day's work we did. The Fugitive-slave Bill was driven through under the ga...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

Daniel Webster to Millard Fillmore, November 5, 1850

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Boston, November 5, 1850, MY DEAR SIR—I left New Hampshire yesterday, having be come free of disease, and well, except so far as this prot...

Daniel Webster to Mr. Colby, November 11, 1850

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Marshfield, November 11, 1850. DEAR SIR, I have received your letter of the 7th of this month. Experience has long since taught me how u...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

Senator John C. Calhoun: The Address of the Southern Delegates in Congress to their Constituents, January 15, 1849

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We, whose names are hereunto annexed, address you in discharge of what we believe to be a solemn duty, on the most important subject ever pr...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Henry David Thoreau: A Plea for Captain John Brown,* October 30, 1859

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I TRUST that you will pardon me for being here. I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as I know of C...