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Showing posts with label Gradual Emancipation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gradual Emancipation. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 17, 1865

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Frosty morning, after a rain last night. We have no authentic war news this morning, from any quarter. Congress is at work in both Houses ...
Friday, October 29, 2021

Stephen Duncan to Mrs. Mary Duncan, August 25, 1863

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Natchez. August 25 th 1863 My Dear Mary I trouble you with a line on the subject of our affairs, hoping that you may be able to communicate...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 29, 1863

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A dispatch from Gen. Johnston, dated 27th inst, says fighting at Vicksburg had been in progress ever since the 19th instant, and that our t...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday, March 27, 1862

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A wintry morning — snow two or three inches deep, ground frozen; the ninth day since this equinoctial set in. P. M. The sun came out bright...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to John L. Motley, March 8, 1862

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Boston, March 8, 1862. My Dear Motley : I have been debating with myself whether to wait for further news from Nashville, the Burnside...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Abraham Lincoln’s Message to Congress, March 6, 1862

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March 6, 1862. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I recommend the adoption of a joint resolution by your hon...
Friday, April 17, 2015

The President on Emancipation.

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If proof were wanting of the patriotic ardor of the President for the peace and well being of the country, it would be found abundantly in ...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, March 8, 1862

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Shady Hill , 8 March, I862. As I sit down to thank you for the note that came to me this morning, Jane is reading it aloud to Longfello...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, July 26, 1864

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Headquarters Army oF The Potomac , July 26, 1864. I consider the peace movement in Canada, and the share Horace Greeley had in it, as m...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Tuesday, July 22d, 1862

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This morning, I called on the President with a letter received some time since from Col. Key, in which he stated that he had reason to beli...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Proclamation by the President of the United States

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WASHINGTON, May 19. WHEREAS, There appears in the public prints what purports to be a proclamation of Maj. Gen. Hunter ; and whereas, t...
Saturday, November 9, 2013

Arrival of the Niagara – Foreign News

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HALIFAX, May 14. The Niagara, Capt. Stone, from Liverpool and Queenstown 4th, arrived this evening. GREAT BRITAIN. – Vague rumors o...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

The Resuscitation of the Democratic Party

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There is a conviction in the public mind that the war is drawing toward a close – that the events of a few weeks, lying immediately before ...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

To The Public

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In the month of August, I issued proposals for publishing ‘THE LIBERATOR’ in Washington city; but the enterprise, though hailed in differen...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Signs Of The Times

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You Cannot, if you Would, be Blind to the Signs of the Times. – { President Lincoln. COMMENTS OF THE CONSERVATIVE PRESS ON PRESIDEN’T LINC...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

37th Congress - First Session

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WASHINGTON, May 28. – HOUSE. – Mr. PORTER moved to postpone till Wednesday next the motion made by him yesterday, to reconsider the vote by ...