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Showing posts with label Slaves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slaves. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

1st Lieutenant William T. Sherman to John Sherman, January 4, 1846

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FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., Jan. 4, 1846. My Dear  Brother : I had to go to North Carolina on a wedding tour at Christmas time, and as soon as I...
Friday, June 12, 2026

Diary of Edward Bates, June 23, 1859

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Today attended some of the closing exercises of the students of Washington University. Barton will leave us tomorrow morning. He has been ...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Wendell Phillips on the Puritan Principle,* December 18, 1859

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I THANK GOD for John Calvin. To be sure, he burned Servetus; but the Puritans, or at least, their immediate descendants, hung the witches; G...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Diary of Elvira J. Powers, Friday, April 22, 1864

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Yesterday morning, Mr. F., a gentleman from my native State, Massachusetts, and who has charge of the Refugee Farm, asked if I would not lik...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Daniel Webster to Millard Fillmore, August 5, 1851

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Boston, August 5, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—I came to this city yesterday, and found it and all the hotels so crowded with strangers, that I wish...
Friday, April 10, 2026

Victor Hugo to Editor of the London News, December 2, 1859

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HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, Dec. 2, 1859. SIR: When one thinks of the United States of America, a majestic figure rises to the mind—Washington. Now,...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Diary of Edward Bates, May 24, 1859

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To day, Sarah Bates , by one single deed, set free all her remaining slaves — being 32 in number. The deed was proven in Court, by John. S. ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Speech of Congressman Albert G. Brown, delivered in the United States House of Representatives, in Reply to his Colleague, Hon. John D. Freeman, on the State of Parties in Mississippi, March 30, 1852

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AVERSE as I am to the continuance of a controversy with my colleagues on the subject of Mississippi politics, I am not the less constrained ...