Narrative Of The Life Of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave, From Kentucky
J. D. (Jacob D.) Green
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TESTIMONIALS.
TESTIMONIALS.
Jacob Green, a coloured man and an escaped slave, has lectured in my hearing, on American Slavery, in Springfield School-room, and I was much pleased with the propriety with which he was able to express himself, and with the capabilities which he seemed to possess to interest an audience. GILBERT Mc.CALLUM. Minister of Springfield Independent Chapel, Dewsbury. Sept 2, 1863. Hopton House, Sept. 10, 1863. I have much pleasure in bearing my testimony in favour of Mr. Jacob Green, as a lecturer on t
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NARRATIVE, &c.
NARRATIVE, &c.
My father and mother were owned by Judge Charles Earle, of Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and I was born on the 24th of August, 1813. From eight to eleven years of age I was employed as an errand boy, carrying water principally for domestic purposes, for 113 slaves and the family. As I grew older, in the mornings I was employed looking after the cows, and waiting in the house, and at twelve years I remember being in great danger of losing my life in a singular way. I had seen the relish with whi
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WHAT THE "TIMES" SAID OF THE SECESSION IN 1861
WHAT THE "TIMES" SAID OF THE SECESSION IN 1861
"The State of South Carolina has seceded from the Union by a unanimous vote of her legislature, and it now remains to be seen whether any of the other Southern States will follow her example, and what course the Federal authorities will pursue under the circumstances. While we wait for further information on these points, it may be well to consider once again the cause of quarrel which has thus begun to rend asunder the mightiest confederation which the world has yet beheld. One of the prevalent
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SECESSION CONDEMNED IN A SOUTHERN CONVENTION.
SECESSION CONDEMNED IN A SOUTHERN CONVENTION.
Of the Hon. A.H. STEPHENS, made at the Georgia State Convention, held January, 1861, for the purpose of determining whether the State of Georgia was to secede. Notwithstanding this remarkable speech of an extraordinary man, the Convention decided on secession. Mr. Stephens was afterwards elected Vice President of the so-called Confederacy. This distinction shows the estimate of his powers, and adds force to the deliverance, the prophetic declarations of which are now being fulfilled to the lette
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THE CONFEDERATE AND THE SCOTTISH CLERGY ON SLAVERY.
THE CONFEDERATE AND THE SCOTTISH CLERGY ON SLAVERY.
Some three months ago, we published an "Address to Christians throughout the world," by "the clergy of the Confederate States of America;" and yesterday we published a reply to that address, signed by nearly a thousand ministers of the various Churches in Scotland. The Confederate address begins with a solemn declaration that its scope is not political but purely religious—that it is sent forth "in the name of our Holy Christianity," and in the interests of "the cause of our most Blessed Master.
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