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Enlistment of Negroes It is remarkable how much fuss resolute zealots can make over a very small matter. Two or three of our smaller States, to judge from the noise made in them, are quite convulsed on the subject of enlisting blacks as soldiers to…

EMANCIPATION DAY Our friends, the negro chasers, opened their political campaign in behalf of their Constitutional Amendment on Emancipation Day. The selection of the day was characteristically tactful. --- Asheville Gazette (Republican organ.) No…

This item is an editorial from the Unionist newspaper the FayettevilleObserverin which the paper reports on the 1860 national election results. The paper laments the election of Abraham Lincoln as President, but it stresses the fact that although…

If an election of any kind were to be held in the South within the next month, there is no reasonable doubt that three-fourths of the negro vote would be cast with the Southern white vote. There is perfect accord between the large portion of the…

EDITOR MANLEY’S RESPONSIBILITIES

The confiscation of the property and exiling of EDITOR ALEXANDER MANLEY of the Wilmington, N. C., RECORD were without palliation or excuse.

That he published a lawful but indiscreet article in the editorial…

A Confederacy or Union composed of the fifteen slaveholding States would, after a while, encounter some of the same difficulties which now beset the existing Union. The States south of us would produce and export cotton, while the middle or…

This article describes the execution of two men found guilty of deserting the Confederate Army, and ends by stating that it is hoped their fate will serve the greater good of the Army in the end.

In this article by the RaleighWeekly Standard, the paper which backed the Democratic Party candidate Breckenridge argued why Lincoln should not be elected. The paper stated its belief that if Lincoln was elected it meant that the Constitution of the…

DEFAMER MUST GO

Mass Meeting of White Citizens of Wilmington Pass Resolutions.

EXPULSION OF MANLY

AND RESIGNATIONS OF MAYOR AND CHIEF OF POLICE DEMANDED.

MANLY GIVEN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

Time for Negro Domination Forever Past,

Though…

My first remembrance of my life begins when I was from 8 to 10 years of age. I was born in North Carolina in 1810, the property of Olser Hye, within 15 miles of the capital of the State-- Raleigh.They attempted to whip me in 1854 and backed me down…