Abolitionist Letter from William Slade on New York Meeting
The Hon. William Slade sends a formal reply to the New York Young Men's Anti-Slave Society regarding attendance at their anti slavery convention. He expresses support for abolition but cites duties preventing his participation, and he extols benevolence, public sentiment, and the moral duty to end slavery. He urges patience, persistent effort, and a broader civic role for abolitionists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New York Young Men's Anti-Slave Society
Friends of Abolition
New York
South
Tre
Church
WM. Slade
A. Linoxt
N. Y. Young Men’s
A.S
Address of J R Giddings to Electors of Ohio Sixteenth
The article reprints J R Giddings address to Ohio voters criticizing the DC slave trade and urging Congress to act. He laments Congress silence, condemns markets and jails in Washington for slaves, and calls for national honor over trade. He argues petition rights misuse and warns of political division over emancipation and equality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sixteenth
Ohio
Giddings
District of Columbia
Ashtabula Sentinel
Trafic
Emancipation Seen as Noble Act to Benefit Whites and Blacks
The speaker contends that southern emancipation should be carried out nobly and voluntarily, predicting it will bring kindness to blacks from white communities. It argues that whites will gain by uplifting laborers, with neighborhoods establishing schools to attract workers to plantations and improve relations rather than foster hostility.
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South
Christian Journal
Black Bill Passes Senate by Narrow Margin
The Black Bill cleared the Senate on the 22d by 26 to 10, creating a penal offence to arrest and try a colored man as a fugitive after acquittal under the 1793 law. It is denounced as a malice driven, disgraceful law in the New Lisbon Aurora report.
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Senate
Congress
Yeas—Allen
Bates
Brady
Craighill
Green
Harlan
Holmes
Hostetter
Ihri
New Lisbon
Aurora
Abolition Debate in Virginia Meets to Defend Petition Rights
An Ohio County Virginia meeting denounces Wheeling actions against petitions to Congress on slavery in the District of Columbia. The assembly advocates universal petition rights and condemns false claims about petition signers while pledging legal means to oppose unjust laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
Virginia
Congress
District of Columbia
United States
Abolitionist Meeting in Wheeling 1839 Proceedings
An 1839 Ohio County Virginia record outlines a Wheeling meeting denouncing abolitionists, calling for signatures to publish proceedings in multiple papers, and urging resignation of Justice John Gilmor for signing abolition petitions. It includes letters and a quoted political appeal tied to Henry Clay and wartime rhetoric.
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Christian Witness
Ohio County
Tho’s. Abercrombie
Wheeling
Congress
John Ashfmor
John Bushficks
Lyttleton Morris
John Gilmor
Thomas Abercrombie
John Emery
Samuel M. Bell
George Whitlam
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Peti
Ohio
Brook
Marshall Counties
Madisonian
Washington City
Liberator
Boston
Emancipator
New York
Pennsylvania Freeman
Philadelphia
Pillsburg
Philanthropist
Cincinnati
General Assembly
Gilmor
Ep. Co
Ohio County Court
Virginia
Clay's Speech Warns of a Public Money Monster
A Cincinnati Daily Gazette commentary denounces Henry Clay's defense of a vast personal wealth tied to commerce and land holdings. It warns that financial power threatens liberty, urges clergy and women to oppose abolitionist petitions, and cautions free states against policies risking bloodshed and calamity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clay
The
Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Mr. Clay
Clay
Free States
Controversy Over Clay and Liberty in Early America
A 1827 1828 exchange between Simon Bolivar and Henry Clay is examined, alleging a clash between freedom and slavery. The author cites passages accusing Clay of pursuing a bloody road against liberty and warns of a proslavery current within the United States jeopardizing the Union.
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Simon Bolivar
Mr. Clay
Desi
Tam
United States
South America
Bolivar
Clay
B. W. Leigh
Virginia
Alion
North
Ohio
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the Philanthropist
Anti-Slavery Society
Main St
4Th
East Side
James Boyle
Teaus
J. R.giddings
Africa
John Randolph
Roanoke
House of Representatives
Minor
National Legislature
Vendue
Texas
U. States
House of
van Buren
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