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Showing posts with label Massachusetts Legislature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Massachusetts Legislature. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 14, 2025

No Union With Slaveholders!

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KISSING THE CHAIN! Shall Massachusetts stand erect no longer, But stoop in chains upon her downward way, Thicker to gather on her limb...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

No Union With Slaveholders!

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In the House of Representatives of this State, on Monday last, petitions numerously signed by legal as well as non-voters, were presented fr...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Senator Charles Sumner to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives, May 14, 1851

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FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: BY the hands of the Secretary of the Commonwealth I have received a certificat...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

Charles Sumner to Congressman Charles Allen, October 15, 1850

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Nothing is clearer to me than this. Our friends should if possible secure the balance of power in the Legislature, so as to influence the ch...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Outpouring of Indignation in the Massachusetts Legislature — published May 27, 1856

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BOSTON, May 26.—The Senate to-day unanimously passed a series of resolutions denounciatory of the assault upon Sumner as brutal and cowardly...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

Julia Ward Howe to her Sisters, Thursday, May 29, 1856

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Thursday, 29, 1856 We have been in the most painful state of excitement relative to Kansas matters and dear Charles Sumner, whose condi...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Speech on Affairs in Kansas, at the Kansas Relief Meeting in Cambridge Massachusetts, Wednesday Evening, September 10, 1856

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I regret, with all this company, the absence of Mr. Whitman of Kansas, whose narrative was to constitute the interest of this meeting. Mr. ...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Charles Francis Adams to John A. Andrew, January 4, 1861

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(Private and Confidential.)   Washington , 4 January, 1861. Hon. J. A. Andrew , Boston, Mass. My Dear Sir , — It is beyond a doubt,...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

George L. Stearns to the National Kansas Committee in New York City, May 10, 1857

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Since the close of the last year we have confined our operations to aiding those persons in Kansas who were, or intended to become citizens...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

William Barton Rogers to Henry Darwin Rogers, May 29, 1860

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Boston , May 29, 1860. . . . We go to Lunenburg on Friday. As soon as there I shall write out my observations on binocular vision, etc....
Monday, August 10, 2015

John Brown to the Reverend Samuel Lyle Adair, February 16, 1857

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Boston, Mass ., Feb. 16, 1857. Dear Brother And Sister Adair , — It is a long time since I have heard a word from you, but I suppose it...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

The Massachusetts Kansas Committee to Edward Clark, January 30, 1857

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The National Committee, at their meeting in New York, voted to resign all claim to the rifles at Tabor to our committee; and Mr. Hurd is to...
Sunday, May 3, 2015

Massachusetts Kansas Committee to Governor James W. Grimes, December 20, 1856

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State Kansas Aid Committee Rooms, Boston , Dec. 20, 1856. Dear Sir , — Your letter of the 16th has been received, and we are glad to ...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, February 11, 1861

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Mt. Savage , February 11, 1861. My Dear Mr. Forbes , — I was delighted to see your name among the Massachusetts Commissioners — and ver...