Annals of Cleveland

Negroes

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Abstracts: 10

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1324

Cleveland Morning Leader, 16 January 1864 (ed; 4 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

1324 - L. Jan. 16; ed:4/2 - Douglas' platform for "Loyal" men is:
1. That this war shall be an Abolition war. . . .
2. That we will not accept any peace, but Abolition peace.
3. That we regard the colored population as countrymen.
4. That whites have nothing to fear from blacks and will
give them equal chances in voting. - -
We feel that the principles of this, platform are what every man needs
to take his stand on at this hour. - - - - - - - (4)

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Douglass, Fred

1325

Cleveland Morning Leader, 3 February 1864 (4 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

1325 - L. Feb. 3:4/2 - Mrs. Gage's lecture at Brainard's hall was enjoyerl
by a large audience; particularly her vivid description of contraband life,
with which she is familiar through more than a year's experience in South .
Carolina. She showed how the long-looked-for redemption of the Negroes
in the South is to be achieved. - (4)

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Brainard's hall (Cont'd); Gage, Mrs. Francis D. (1ecturer); South; South Carolina

1329

Cleveland Morning Leader, 25 March 1864 (ed; 10 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2 ~ View at ChronAm

1329 - L. Mar. 25; ed: 2/2 - Colored men, by their bravery and heroism in
engaging in a struggle in which they have more to lose than the white man,
have ranked themselves with the proudest warriors of past ages. "Who will
dare say, return back again to the degradation of slavery? Who would not
rather say, be a citizen and a man." (10)

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1330

Cleveland Morning Leader, 26 May 1864 (ed; 3 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

1330 - L. May 26; ed: 2/3 - The Cincinnati GAZETTE correspondent gives an
account of a very chivalrous sight which he saw in Tennessee. Ten colored
women were in a field, plowing and hoeing, while further on two colored
women and a boy were working. These groups were directed in their labor
by two white men. "We would not hesitate to risk our life, that if these
two brutes were living in the North, they would represent the quintessence
of Copperheadism." (3)

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Cincinnati GAZETTE; Tennessee

1331

Cleveland Morning Leader, 19 June 1864 (ed; 4 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1331 - L June 19; ed:2/1 - The colored soldiers are delegated in a righteous
retribution to assist mightily in crush-the-Rebellion. "They are winning
a character for bravery and endurance which is an honor to the black race."
(4)

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1332

Cleveland Morning Leader, 27 June 1864 (ed; 3 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1332 - L. June 27; ed:2/1 - A colored woman, clean, orderly, and decent,
dressed in mourning, was dragged by four men from a New York street car,
and left in the street. "This is the teaching of copperheadism." (3)

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