previous next


War meeting.

--A negro recruiting recently held at New Bedford, Mass., the New Bedford Mercury gives the following :

, last evening, was largely attended. by the choice of Rev. Mr. Grimas , who after a few remarks introduced G wood, who made a short but very address. He was followed by Dr. , R. C. Pitman, L. C. Ray, Wm. H. Wilson, J. M. Chester, (of Penn.,) and Dr. Bayne. Several resolutions satisfaction at the defeat of the attempt of foreign powers to interfere with our and resolutions referring to the thrown at colored men, and call to rise and show their strength, were . The action of the city government in receiving a bounty to colored men that and to only those who are citizens of was the subject of lengthy remarks been promised $50, and now they are offi that they can have but $25. There dissatisfaction. It stopped enlistments, company could be quickly by Want of space prevents a of the meeting, but we certainly will take the matter in hand and amount by subscription.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (1)
New Bedford (Massachusetts, United States) (1)
hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Wilson (1)
L. C. Ray (1)
R. C. Pitman (1)
Grimas (1)
J. M. Chester (1)
Bayne (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: