Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge , LA], March 27, 1860 The death of Aunt Cicily, well known to all the market people for her faithful, honest and upright conduct, called out between three and four hundred of her colored friends and fellow-servants to attend her funeral on Sunday last. We do not recollect ever [...]

Warning The following article contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the article is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Sugar Planter [West Baton Rouge, LA], March 24, 1860 The relative position in point of comfort and good treatment of the slaves at the South and the [...]

Louisiana Democrat [Alexandria , LA], March 21, 1860 Here is something new under the sun, taken from the N. O. Courier, of a recent date.   Secret organization seem to be the order of the times: The K. G. C. We observe a call for the K. G. C.’s to meet at the hall over the [...]

4. Colonel Lee to the Adjutant General. Headquarters Fort Duncan, March 20, 1860.           Colonel: Information from Eagle Pass was received at San Antonio the day I left (15th instant) that Cortinas, with a large force, was ascending the valley of the Rio Grande, and threatened to attack the village at this place. This report was [...]

Crawfordville [Ga]., Mch. 18th, 1860. Dear Smith, Your letter of the 14th inst. was received last night. The catalogue of books came duly to hand. It was from that that I gave Mr. Shockly the information about where he could get Niles’s Register, and he authorized me to get some one, I named you, to [...]

Natchez Daily Free Trader [MS], March 17, 1860 Owners of slaves, who suffer them to hire their own time or  act as their own masters, violate the law. The city Marshal, as in duty bound, is taking notice of these cases. He is right, and good citizens will back him. fornenst (f???n?nst) prep dialect Scot [...]

Texas Baptist [Anderson, TX], March 15, 1860 For the Texas Baptist. Brother Baines: Sometime since I wrote you a brief article on the use of tobacco, in which I endeavored to expose the filthy and degrading custom so prevalent among men. I said nothing then of the unwholesome compound usually termed “snuff,” or if its [...]

Herald of the South [Brandon, MS], March 14, 1860 The scamp who rode by our house on last Sunday evening just at dark, and when opposite stopped his horse, drew a pistol and shot at our dog in our yard, immediately before and in direct range with the door of our house, at the great [...]

92. Colonel Brown to the Adjutant General. [By telegraph.] New Orleans, March 13, 1860.                     Sir: I left Brownsville on the eighth instant. All was quiet on the frontier. The disturbances were believed to be over, and Cortinas to have given up the contest, and to have retired into the interior of Mexico. Major Heintzelman has [...]

[Extract.) 91. General Orders No. 6. Headquarters Of The Army,           New York, March 12, 1860.           I. The following instructions have been received from the War Department:           1. The following dispositions of the troops will be carried into effect as soon as the season will permit. **********           9 The 3d infantry will proceed to Texas; five [...]

94. Colonel Lee to the Adjutant General. Headquarters Department of Texas,           San Antonio, March 12, 1860.           Colonel: I have received your letters of the 24th and 27th ultimo, relative to the depredations of Cortinas and the instructions thereupon of the Secretary of War.           I shall proceed at once to the Rio Grande and use every [...]

Standard [Clarksville, TX], March 10, 1860 A young woman, named Mary Graham, shot George Fitzhugh, the overseer of a plantation in Hinds county, Miss., on the 24th ult. Fitzhugh had seduced the girl under promise of marriage, and when asked by his victim to redeem his promise, he scoffed at her position, whereupon she drew [...]

Standard [Clarksville, TX], March 10, 1860 The news of Indian slaughter is sickening. How it is possible for the National Congress to hesitate in the performance of a sworn duty, under the Constitution, “to provide for the common defence” is something that we cannot understand. Here, in Texas, where a line of frontier hundreds of [...]

The Shoemaker’s Strike in Lynn, Mass. — Procession, in the midst of a snow-storm, of eight hundred women operatives joining in with banners, inscriptions, and working tools, preceded by the Lynn City Guards with music, and followed by four thousand workmen, firemen, &c., March 8, 1860. Frank Leslie Illustrated Newspaper, March 17, 1860  

Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge , LA], March 7, 1860 Vicksburg, March 4th, 1860. Dear Comet:–I have been in this place forty-seven hours and a half, and during all this time have not heard the crack of a pistol. This is a very bad sign, and I am afraid, points to the time, when [...]

New York Times, March 7, 1860 Boston, Tuesday, March 6. The shoemakers’ strike is rapidly extending to all the principal manufacturing towns in the State. The latest demonstrations are at Newburyport, North Bridgewater, Salem and Sutton. The strikers are orderly and peaceful.  

New York Times, March 7, 1860 A shocking but painfully common casualty was repeated yesterday on the Delaware River. A new steamboat, named the Alfred Thomas, which had been built at Easton, to ply between Belvidere, New Jersey, and Port Jervis, set out from Easton in the morning, to ascend the stream. There appears to [...]

[Little Rock]  Arkansas True Democrat, March 7, 1860 The northern papers have been busily assailing the inhumanity of the act which exiled this unfortunate class from our State. We have now tested practically the law which relieved us from their presence, and the free negroes have tested the life of freedom among the freedom shriekers [...]

The New York Times, March 6, 1860 While editors and letter-writers are informing the people which of the Republican candidates can, and which cannot be elected, if placed in nomination, I desire to express my opinion also. Since the 10th of November I have traveled in eleven States. “The Old Guard,” the men who have [...]

Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], March 6, 1860 The “Houston Telegraph” of the 27th ultimo says the influx of settlers into Texas is still very large. Every boat from New Orleans is crowded, and it is estimated that not less than twelve to eighteen hundred persons arrive in the State every week by way of the [...]

The New York Times, March 6, 1860 Our modest neighbor, the Tribune, has been for a long time in the habit of giving variety and interest to its columns by paragraphs and clippings from our Paris, London and Washington correspondence—duly displayed as original. This is all quite endurable, as the value it gives the Tribune [...]

Long-simmering divisions in America were heating up in the years preceding the American Civil War.  In early 1860, Georgia’s Robert Toombs spoke to the Senate chamber in Washington in a speech that became known as Invasion of States. In a 2017 doctoral program dissertation, Antislavery Violence and Secession, October 1859 –April 1861, David Jonathan White [...]

Warning The following article contains wording that is offensive to many in the world of today. However, the article is provided unedited for its historical content and context. Natchez Daily Free Trader [MS], March 3, 1860 For the Free Trader. Communication. Editor of Free Trader:– The earnest appeal contained in the two columns of the [...]

Natchez Daily Free Trader [MS], March 3, 1860 The Undersigned have on hand about Forty Negroes, consisting of Men and women,  which we will sell as low or lower than any one else in this market. Men from $1400 to $1500  and Women from $1200 to $1400. We have no Virginia nor unacclimated negroes. We [...]