Tag Archives: Slavery

nutshell happiness

Posted on January 2, 2015 by SUMPTER

The Richmond Dispatch still observed the Christian Sabbath back in 1864, so its January 2nd issue looked back on 1864 and ahead to 1865. The defiance seems muted in this Monday morning editorial as the writer could not even wish … Continue reading →

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Abe’s Cornerstone

Posted on December 3, 2014 by SUMPTER

The Union must be preserved and slavery is wrong. Nevertheless, the president still released two rebel prisoners. From The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Seven: MEMORANDUM, DECEMBER 3, 1864. On Thursday of last week, two ladies from Tennessee … Continue reading →

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constitutional

Posted on October 18, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago this month voters in Maryland narrowly approved a new state constitution that outlawed slavery. The votes of Maryland soldiers serving in the Union army proved to be decisive. President Lincoln probably was pleased with the Maryland vote … Continue reading →

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“the solitary blunder”

Posted on July 2, 2014 by SUMPTER

A Southern take on the North’s coming celebration of July 4th and the Declaration of Independence: the United States was abrogating all the principles of the Declaration except for its one mistake – the idea that “all men are created … Continue reading →

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insurrection bad

Posted on June 2, 2014 by SUMPTER

Nothing new here. For the South to win its war for independence, the South has to guard against negro insurrections. In fact, slaveown shouldn’t even let their slaves go at large. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch June 2, 1864: Charged … Continue reading →

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banning “the wolf’s dictionary”?

Posted on April 18, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago Sanitary Fairs were held throughout the North to support the work of the United States Sanitary Commission. President Lincoln spoke a few words when Baltimore opened its version on April 18th. There might never be an authoritative, … Continue reading →

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angel arguments

Posted on April 8, 2014 by SUMPTER

150 years ago today the first Constitutional step was taken to amend the Constitution regarding slavery. The United States Senate passed a resolution to make the Constitution explicitly forbid slavery throughout the United States. The Thirteenth Amendment would eventually become … Continue reading →

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one nation …

Posted on April 5, 2014 by SUMPTER

According to the Library of Congress, on March 26, 1864 President Lincoln met with three prominent Kentuckians who disagreed with the federal policy of recruiting Kentucky slaves for the Union army. Newspaper editor Albert G. Hodges was so impressed with … Continue reading →

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diggin’ for the CSA

Posted on March 24, 2014 by SUMPTER

This notice has been running in the Dispatch most of the month. The Confederate Niter and Mining Bureau was tasked with supplying necessary minerals and metals to the South’s military. As white men continued to get killed and wounded and … Continue reading →

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border fanatic

Posted on March 12, 2014 by SUMPTER

Maryland might have been a border state, bordering on Virginia, as a matter of fact, but that didn’t mean one of its representatives in the Yankee Congress couldn’t be a Blacker Republican that President Lincoln. From the Richmond Daily Dispatch … Continue reading →

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