Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers

I lately attended a meeting of the citizens of Concord, expecting, as one among many, to speak on the subject of slavery in Massachusetts;…

Pythagoras said that the time when men are honestest, is when they present themselves before the gods. If we can overhear the prayer, we…

I heartily accept the motto,—“That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and…

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…

We learn that Mr. Etzler is a native of Germany, and originally published his book in Pennsylvania, ten or twelve years ago; and now a…

We had occasionally, for several years, met with a number of this spirited journal, edited, as abolitionists need not to be informed, by…

Thomas Carlyle is a Scotchman, born about fifty years ago, “at Ecclefechan, Annandale,” according to one authority. “His parents ‘good…

At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he…

We have now, for the third winter, had our spirits refreshed, and our faith in the destiny of the Commonwealth strengthened, by the…

John Brown’s career for the last six weeks of his life was meteor-like, flashing through the darkness in which we live. I know of nothing…